Build a lemonade stand, that’s what!
If you recall from the last video on our socials, we forgot to add lemonade to our dramatic play restaurant corner – an outright travesty! 🙀How this went completely over my head beats me. (Which also reminds me to do something about those aprons ASAP! Am I slacking in the zesty department😩or what?)
Backstory: Sometime back in January, a group of my girls from Šentjur pointed out we were missing menus for our dramatic play sessions. They nagged and bugged until I gave in. While it was group effort on their part with menu offerings, at their insistence my only job was to pencil the calligraphy framework for poshness and presentation, while the colouring in and decorating was entirely their doing.
And we got good mileage out of those menus, we did!
But with each play, it never occurred to any of us to order a glass of lemonade, what with being surrounded by lemons and what-nots, right up until the end of our last play date in June!
Perhaps it was summer’s heat that brought it to memory, because what’s summer without a cool glass of lemonade, right?
Right! So after racking my brains as to what to do with the 1st batch of campers next week, I figured we’d just go all out and build the entire lemonade stand, goddamit! Why not go for the whole damned building🤷🏽♀️Time to play for real, no more drama!
I had thoughts of even Nara Smithing it and heading out to the woods armed with chainsaws and axes to chop down the tree which we would’ve planted only 5-7 business days prior of course, for wood to construct the wooden crates, but HA! jokes on us, as we already did that last year…💁🏽♀️*yawn*
After having grouped kids according to age for this year’s camp, best getting the younger ones out of the way for starters, it brings with it a whole new challenge as to keeping them engaged, because the thought of dragging 3rd & 4th graders tu pa tam doesn’t necessarily make me want to do cartwheels. It makes all the sense to keep them busy with hands-on projects, and this one in particular, being a fun way to help them practice social and entrepreneurial skills , only this time for real. From set-up all the way to execution, they can learn teamwork, decision-making on how to design the stand, not to mention entrepreneurship and hard work making and selling the lemonade, and responsibility in cleaning up afterwards.
Plus, it’ll be a perfect addition to our classroom dramatic play corner🤗
Bringing this creative vision to life has been no mean feat. Had me running from one home depot to the other all week, searching for the right -sized crates, poles and fastening tools that will enable us put away and reuse with ease. Then bits and bobs to make it all come together.
It didn’t help that my yellow OCD got activated and went into overdrive at the sight of a pack of ridiculously expensive yellow brushes. Even the store assistants advised me to go to Tedi to find cheaper ones, but that’s exactly the kind of negativity I don’t need in my life!
Today, I discovered it’d be easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle’s eye than to find a packet of yellow balloons. I mean, every other colour under the sun exists, yes, in Tedi, Kik and Mueller except for a pack of plain yellows balloons. Is there even a God?
Hence, settled for multicoloured ones that’ll have us fishing out the yellows and banishing the rest into some unknown clear plastic container for future use. Win-win, I guess.
Yesterday had me working out the right triangle sizes for banners to cut down on prep time when the kids get into it, after which I punched in holes and strung them up to see how they’d hold up against the wind. 3 holes did the trick.
I know I could probably find and print out some pre-made ones on Pinterest, but why make it so easy for them when we could Nara Smith it from scratch.
It even afforded me the opportunity to practice my free hand lemons, which I might add is not looking too bad. Tisa would be so proud🤗
As I was checking out of Impus with my crates the other day, out of the corner of my wandering eye, these babies stopped me DEAD in my tracks 🫢🍋🍋🍋
Bear in mind that, my 6th graders gifted me with a gorgeous one just 2 weeks ago ( the umpteenth one because I swear at this point, I’ve lost count of how many dispensers I own. ) BUT none of them are plastered in lemons like these, come on!!!! I wish you’d stop judging me. The universe clearly placed them right in my path and meant for them to sit perfectly pretty on our lemony lemon lemonade stand! Can you see it all coming together? Oh, can you?
I have a lot-hate relationship with spigot drink dispensers. It’s a clear cut case of you get what you pay for. Of all the ones I own, the most expensive one is the only one that has stood the test of time, but the plastic ones will drip, drip, drip into oblivion … every. single.time. But I believe the camp gods are with me on these ones
Finished the day strong putting together a box to store our earnings.
The plan being to have parents, wards, passers-by, anyone really, come to our stand on the last day to purchase and make us a killing- half the proceeds of which we will donate to an animal shelter or charity of sorts. The other half, the kids and I will split equally amongst ourselves💁🏽♀️ easy peasy, lemon squeezy😎
So, if you’ll be in our neck of the woods next Friday the 12th, do stop by between 12 noon to 4 pm and be a sport! It’d be an absolute refreshing delight!
Looking forward to our fresh start on Monday morning🤗
Stay zesty and don’t forget to squeeze the day!
Hugs,
Y☀️
