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10 Books for Young Entrepreneurs: Kidpreneurs

My oldest daughter has an entrepreneurs’ spirit, or as kids can be called “Kidpreneurs”. I haven’t had a clue what to do about it teaching a young entrepreneur, but I am stepping out of my comfort zone and we are going to start working on a plan, a plan for her to start her own little business. My go to as always is books. I am getting books to make sure we do this right and I support her as best as I can. The young entrepreneur that she is already planning a lemonade stand for the summer.

The world has changed and a lot of adults are looking to become entrepreneurs and create their own work and lifestyle. Why shouldn’t kids and teens do the same.

10 Books for Young Entrepreneurs: Kidpreneurs

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This list might be a little overwhelming but the majority are available on Kindle which is a big help, not so many books laying around. Pick one and start there. The two books for teens are at the end.

Jasmine Launches a Startup – Want to spark curiosity and arouse your little one’s leadership skills? Inspire your future entrepreneur to follow its passion and introduce him or her to the world of entrepreneurship with the story of Jasmine. The first perfect business book to share with your child to ignite interest in starting a business or launching a start-up.

Kidpreneurs: Young Entrepreneurs With Big Ideas! – Even children can be introduced to basic business principles and the rewards of entrepreneurship. Our goal with Kidpreneurs is to outline some basic tools and strategies kids can use to gain some valuable experience in starting, managing, and growing a successful business venture.

Kid Start-Up: How YOU Can Become an Entrepreneur – You can try one of our ten kid-friendly businesses, including timeless ventures like starting a lemonade stand to more modern-day endeavors like launching an Etsy art store, or create your own.

Kid Millionaire: Over 50 Exciting Business Ideas – Learn the skills you need to do what you love and profit from your passions! Follow dozens of kid entrepreneurs and learn from business pros with Kid Millionaire! In this fun and inspiring guide.

Better Than a Lemonade Stand!: Small Business Ideas for Kids – Filled with delightfully simple business ideas, Better than a Lemonade Stand! is a fun guide packed with creative ideas that show how to start a business with little or no start-up costs, attract and retain customers, develop negotiating skills, and more.

Project Profit: An Income and Expense Ledger for Aspiring Entrepreneurs – Perfect workbook for lemonade stands, bake sales, and any other roadside business! Project Profit: Lemonade Stand Workbook! This ledger is the perfect introduction to profit and loss, income and expenses, and bookkeeping.

The Amazing Kid Entrepreneur – A story: As a leader, Zohra teaches by example and inspires individuals to “believe and they shall achieve,” and helps people turn obstacles into energy and focus. Zohra is committed to teaching the formula of success, one person at a time.

This one is more for entrepreneur parents raising entrepreneurs:

Entrepreneur School For Kids: Parent Guide For Grooming Your Child To Be A Future Entrepreneur – This book contains proven steps and strategies on how parents who are entrepreneurs can set their children on the path to becoming entrepreneurs themselves someday.

For Teens:

Be a Young Entrepreneur: Be Inspired to Be a Business Whiz – Calling all business-minded kids: this book is for you! If you’ve ever dreamed of starting your own business but have absolutely no idea where to begin, we’ve got good news for you. It’s easy to succeed–as long as you’ve got a game plan.

Become A Teen Boss: 20+ Ways To Make Money Using Your Electronic Device! – To say that a child doesn’t have what it takes to be successful in this world would be lunacy. Child prodigies and child entrepreneurs from all over the world have proved that you don’t need to be an adult to be respected for your ideas.

Growing a Snack Garden with Your Kids

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Growing a snack garden with your kids is fun, and helps them to learn about health and delicious foods. Focusing on a snack garden adds an element of fun for kids, who isn’t going to love a garden they can eat.

Growing a Snack Garden with Your Kids

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Growing a snack garden is the perfect way to introduce your kids to eating healthy foods, you’re not too likely to be growing chocolate or candies. Right? If you are, send me some seeds, k?

If you don’t have the ground space to planting a snack garden in your yard try planting container gardens. These are some of our natures snack garden mix of fruits and vegetables.

The more you involve them in the planting process the more likely they are to eat the vegetables you grow.

Snack Garden Plants for Kids

Tomatoes

While we of course loved the “regular” or hot house tomatoes my kids preferred the small cherry and sugar tomatoes. They are bite sized and perfect to picking off the vine and popping in your mouth.

Sugar Snap Peas

The peas…. oh there were too few of them please we messed up on the support and they died. But they were amazing. I have great memories of eating sugar peas from my great-grandmothers garden.

Carrots

We bought seeds for some fun colored purple carrots as well as the typical orange carrots ones. Because our ground is very hard packed and clay like we were unable to just pull them out. Instead we had to dig them out, give them a really good wash and then crunch away.

Broccoli and Cauliflower

My first piece of advice is to be aware that critters love broccoli and cauliflower and if you don’t cage them in you won’t get to eat them, we learned this the hard way. Cauliflower was Austin’s request last year and we’ll know better for this year.

Rhubarb

This is the easiest snack you can grow because once you plant it it continues to grow. Just leave a couple stalks when removing others to promote new growth. And remind your children to not eat the leaves as they are poisonous.

Berries

Strawberries and blueberries, raspberries and black berries. I don’t have a lot of experience growing these but the few I had growing last year were eaten every quick and straight from the plant. Have you eaten a warm strawberry fresh from the plant? It’s heavenly.

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Fun Herbs for Kids to Grow in Their Garden

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This year, we’re planting a fun herb garden together that I know my kids will love. Because they love pizza. When we bought our house, my girls were so excited to be able to have a garden to grow our own food. While the excitement didn’t translate too well to weeding our garden last summer, for any of us, we still got a bit of food out of it, lots of green onion which we love.

Fun Herbs for Kids to Grow in Their Garden

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My biggest and best idea if I do say so myself is to plant a pizza garden. In a family of pizza lovers, you know this is going to be a hit.

I have been growing herbs in pots for a few years now, and they are, in reality, really easy to grow. They just need to be water regularly, like everyday. A little water everyday, and you get beautiful, flavorful herbs.

Different Way to Plant

We usually start ours from seeds inside, but you can also pick them up at your local garden centre.

You could choose to grow each of your herbs in different small pots. These could be moved inside once fall comes to continue your growing season.

You could grow them all together in a larger pot.

Or.

You could grow them in the ground in a circle garden. Grow your pizza herb garden in the shape of a pizza. Divide your herbs into sections, or slices of pizza, making them fun herbs to grow for your pizza.

Different Fun Herbs to Grow

Basil – for the fullest flavor, add fresh basil to dishes within the last 5 or 10 minutes of cooking time. Use fresh basil in tomato dishes, soups, salads, sauces, and pasta.

Oregano – the leaves of oregano are the most commonly used part of the plant, but strangely, the aroma and flavor of the leaves is far greater when the herb is dried than when the leaves are fresh.

Parsley – I like having this one growing all year long, it makes a beautiful garnish.

Thyme – an evergreen herb with culinary, medicinal, and ornamental uses.

Chives – These are growing wild in my yard, can’t kill it off by mowing it, and my kids grab pieces of it while out playing just to “snack”. We also dug up two flower pots worth and have it on our walkway. It is beautiful with the green of the chives and the purple flowers.

Rosemary – perennial herb with fragrant, evergreen, needle

Bonus

Grow some tomatoes. With your own tomatoes and herbs you have everything to make your own homemade pizza sauce.

Plus when they flower, your children can pick them off, which helps to produce more leaves.

Alternatives to Handing Out Halloween Candy

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Oh Halloween. How I, personally, love you, or at least I love the chocolate, the rockets, oh the memories of trick or treating with my dad. But as a mom, I definitely would love to see a little less of it. Last year we went to the houses on our street, maybe 15 houses, and my girls had a reusable grocery bag full. There were full sized chocolate bars and full boxes of cookies! Hardly any chips making the bag look fuller.

Alternatives to Handing Out Candy this Halloween

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With all the allergies out there, Teal Pumpkin comes to mind, what is Teal Pumpkin?

Provide non-food treats for trick-or-treaters and paint a pumpkin teal to place in front of your home, along with a free printable sign from FARE, to indicate you have non-food treats available. You can learn more here. All kids should get the chance to experience Halloween.

Dollar Store Halloween Candy Alternatives

The dollar store is a great source for some of these:

temporary tattoos
erasers
pencils
activity pads
small containers of PlayDough
crayons/paper
stickers
glow sticks
small bottles of bubbles

My girls aren’t big on eating junk food. They will eat the better part of what they get but it will probably take them until Christmas to do so.

My kids would rather go into the fridge and grab a handful of grape tomatoes or an apple. Which I love, because I am not the healthy of a person myself, but they are on the the right path to eating health on their own. (And I have no idea how this happened, I must have done something right.)

When my kids get playdough, crayons or stickers in their treat bags, they are super excited, they love hands on, plus instead of rotting out their teeth, because there are those that worry about that, or getting a “sugar high” they are having fun, which is what Halloween is about after all right? Fun!

Things like playdough last a lot longer than a tiny, two bite chocolate bars.

What do you hand out for Halloween treats? Do you do food type treats or steer clear of foods?

Travel Games to Play with Kids

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Entertaining children in the best of times, in a fully toy-stocked house can be challenging in the best of times but when you are stuck in a vehicle with very limited items. A child’s boredom could ruin an amazing trip/vacation. We have been road tripping with our kids since they were born. Flying can be expensive and you miss out on seeing so many beautiful and interesting places by flying over them.

Travel Games to Play with Kids

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These can be great for all ages, I know I could sleep a 24+ hour drive away easily, but with three children that’s not necessarily an option.

I Spy

This one is simple and can be fun for all ages. Choose things in the vehicle, or something outside that vehicle that isn’t going to disappear out of sight too quickly. Entertainment with a simple I spy with my little eye….

Plus you can buy I Spy card games and these fun Find It toys, these are perfect for traveling, they don’t take up a lot of space and provide a lot of fun for everyone.

Scavenger Hunt

This one might be best planned ahead of time. Use a printable or create your own, there are a lot on Pinterest. There is a Scavenger Hunt card game which I just learned about, how cool is that?! I love card games for traveling because they don’t take up a lot of space.

Twenty Questions

I used to play this in elementary school. Pick an object, then everyone gets to ask questions trying to guess what the object is… up to twenty questions then you can revel what your object was. Similar to I Spy. You may want to make a rule about the object being in the vehicle with you, and not something that is going to be gone in seconds.

License Plate Game

There are different versions of this game. Spot all the different provinces/states. Finding ABC’s or 123’s in order.

Amazon has a magnetic version of the game, for traveling in the US. It might come in handy to remember which license plates you have seen.

Bingo

This one is another that you can plan ahead for. You can make it easier for younger children or “harder” for older children. Use pictures, numbers, words or a combo of them all. Travel Bingo that uses magnets is helpful too, no piece bouncing around or moving off their squares.

Tic-Tac-Toe

This one doesn’t need to be made up ahead of time. A scrap of paper and your set, especially if you have at least two children that can play together.

These are just the tip of the iceberg for our vacation, a road trip to beautiful British Columbia. A trip to dip our toes in the Pacific Ocean. Some the apps I mentioned that don’t require wifi are great traveling as well. I also have a few more things up my sleeve.

What are your go to travel games?

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10 Books for Young Entrepreneurs: Kidpreneurs

10 Books for Young Entrepreneurs: Kidpreneurs

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