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Lemonade Day Louisiana - A Great Learning Experience for Kids!

Saturday, May 4, 2019

April 24, 2019

Lemonade Day is Saturday May 4th, 2019 ! There is still time to register and participate.

Lemonade Day Louisiana is all about empowering today’s youth to become tomorrow’s entrepreneurs. 

Participating in Lemonade Day is super fun and educational and will likely be a memory your child carries with him into adulthood.

Simply put, Lemonade Day provides kids of all ages the opportunity to EXPERIENCE entrepreneurship by planning, starting, owning, and operating their own business: a lemonade stand! If you can pull it off, register today and set up a simple stand on Saturday! See steps Steps to Becoming a Lemonade Day Superstar below for some tips. Since it's only a couple of days away, just skip steps 4 & 5!

How did Lemonade Day start? Michael Holthouse, a Houston entrepreneur and philanthropist, founded Prepared 4 Life (P4L), a nonprofit that provides fun, proactive, and experiential programs infused with life skill, character education, and entrepreneurship.

Inspired by the lessons he was able to teach his young daughter and her friend when they set up a lemonade stand, Holthouse launched Lemonade Day in Houston, Texas in 2007 as a community-wide, educational initiative, which has now become P4L’s number one outreach and educational priority. He has taken the program nationwide, and we are luck to have it in South Louisiana this year! Georges Enterprises and Raising Cane's are our lead sponsors!

Steps to Becoming a Lemonade Day Superstar:

• Find a Mentor so they can help you through the rest of the steps. Your Mentor can be your mom, dad, caregiver, etc.
Register here for Lemonade Day Louisiana.
•Have your mentor check their email and check out the website for more tips, information and resources.
• Make a grocery run for all your ingredients and supplies.
•Make some healthy, delicious lemonade and set up your stand on Lemonade Day - May 5th.
•After Lemonade Day, share your results by filling out the Business Results Form.
•Come back and Share your Story and look for any contests going on in your city.
•Enjoy your new status: YOU ARE AN ENTREPRENEUR!


On May 4, you'll be sure to see tons of lemonade stands set up all over town. Be sure to stop at as many as possible and support these young entrepreneurs in the quest to operating their own business!


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