Lemonade Stands for Charity!



Tips on how to get your kids involved for charity!

Looking for something fun for your kids to do this summer! Why not a Lemonade Stand for charity! I'm always looking for ways for my daughters to give back to there community, and a lemonade stand is fun for everyone. Here are a few tips to help with your Lemonade Stand.

•  Have your children pick what charity they want to raise money for- I gave our girls options to help them out. We do a children's hospital toy drive during the holidays so for our lemonade stand they picked our local animal shelter Young Williams.  I contacted the shelter and asked if they had any rules and they were thrilled with the idea, and even asked for us to make a flyer they can post on there Facebook page and community board to help spread the word!

• Ask local businesses if you can set up outside. We wanted to do a location that had high traffic as opposed to our street. In our neighborhood we have a local family owned gas station. After we talked to the owner, they were happy to help us out.

•  Create a fun flyer that will draw attention- now that we had our location set,  we did fun photos we could put on our flyer to advertise our stand! The girls had fun with this!

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   Use social media to spread the word of your cause- You can create a Facebook event and send to all your friends and have your friends send to their friends. You can also go to your local news channel website and add it to their community calendar. Ask local businesses if you can post your flyer on their board, you will be surprised how many businesses will want to help you out and even post it to their Facebook page!
• Lemonade supplies currently at Target (2014) Target currently has this cute little end cap of everything you need for a lemonade stand! We gave an option between pink lemonade and regular lemonade but the pink lemonade was a hit! Target even has a cute money box! If you don't want to purchase the box we used a teddy bear plastic container that was filled with animal crackers.
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 We didn't ask for a certain amount the day of the lemonade stand and asked for any donation would be appreciated! With that the girls raised over $150 in two hours for Young Williams. They were able to sponsor and pick out two animals for someone who can't afford adoption fees. The girls picked out two dogs and the shelter sent the girls a photo of the dogs they saved!