Category: Business Ideas & Tips, DIY
ebay is a great entrepreneurial gateway and learning tool for kids. It’s also a wonderful way to make money while sending fewer things to the landfill. Now let’s get those girls started! Quick Start Guide: Step One: Find what you can sell. Clean out your room and/or playroom. Look for things that are in great condition. Items still in packages …
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Category: DIY
Photo: LISA LINDER / EAST PHOTOGRAPHIC This activity is girl-tested and girl approved (just like our book!). It touches on creativity, math, organization, and running a business. Today you get to open a restaurant! Step One: Come up with a name for your restaurant. It can be your name, it can be related to the type of food you’ll be selling at …
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Category: DIY, Girlpreneurs
Join us for a tweetchat on Thursday October 22nd at 7pm ET. You’ll get to connect with us (Bright Girls) and two amazing companies: IAmElemental and Yellow Scope. We’ll be tweeting about using play to close the gender gap! #closethegap A little about the experts you’ll meet on the chat: IAmElemental has thoughtfully redefined the action figure. Creator, Julie Kerwin, has reframed …
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Category: Business Ideas & Tips, DIY
Today’s post is the third installment in my eBay Girls Guide series. eBay is as an excellent way for kids to learn about business first-hand while making some money! In this installment I’ll reveal tips & tricks my kids learned to help make their selling more successful. (You’ll probably want to check out the Quick Start post too.) My son recently had 6 …
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The Bright Girls Kickstarter campaign is a book and activities that teach girls about business in a fun and engaging way. It shows two girls who are makers and girlpreneurs. The characters, Lucy and Kylie come up with a unique bracelet band concept, they test their idea, learn how to source materials, price and market their product, and of course create it. I …
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Category: DIY, Lemonade Stand Tips
Kids and adults love chocolate covered pretzels. We added $15 in sales over two hours to our last lemonade stand by selling these tasty pretzels. Adults seemed to prefer plain while kids consistently chose the ones with sprinkles. These are very inexpensive to make. We bought a big tub of pretzel rods at Costco and the chocolate chips at …
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Category: DIY, Lemonade Stand Tips
Have you read our eBook Sweet Success? It’s FREE when you sign up for our email updates. In this “More Sweet Success” blog series we’re giving you some other ideas on how to get creative and give the lemonade stand a lift! What do you think of a lemonade stand that makes $50 in just a couple of hours? We …
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Category: DIY, Lemonade Stand Tips
Have your kids tried PowToon yet? It’s free, easy to use and it’s great for school, fun, and of course Girlpreneur stuff! We found out about it when a science teacher in our school had the kids use it for their class presentations. Here’s an activity to go along with our FREE eBook Sweet Success. (If you haven’t yet, join …
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Category: DIY
This DIY involves post-it notes and a book you can find at your local library… My daughter came home with this cool little nugget of a nonfiction book Girls Think of Everything, Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women by Catherine Thimmesh. It looked interesting so I sat down to read it myself. On page three I came across this sticky …
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