Lemonade Day, Sunday May 2: 10am-2pm

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Attendance:

Amri + Troop Leader Mandy

Ariana + Assistant Leader Gloriana

Atalli + Kiana + Alex + Adriana

Emonee

Adajiah

Alexis + Shelly

Brigid + Dave

Mikayla + Cari

Notes:  

Wow! Fantastic job, everyone! We surpassed our goal; Mikayla and Alexis were featured in the Statesman (look in our Troop Photo Gallery;) Ariana, Atalli, Alex, Adriana, Mikayla, Emonee, and Kiana were shown in the CBS news blip; you worked together as a team; AND you completed a very complicated Try It Activity. (Careers #6) Phew! Give yourselves a pat on the back- I'm so proud! Now that we know we can afford our Dell Diamond Trip- we'll need to start thinking about our troop flag for the parade! (Getting troop shirts would also be a good idea...)

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Original Post:

The BIG day is here! You can meet at Atalli's house at 9am, or call me to find our exact location. Please do not call me before 8am. I probably won't answer... Girls should wear their vests and a tropical outfit. We have hula skirts, leis, and flowers for their hair. Sunscreen is highly recommended. Girls can bring a sack lunch or money for lunch if they plan on staying the whole time. Girls that can behave can stay at the stand as long as they like. So many of you are coming that we may split and do 2 stands.

Hooray!

Friday 4-30-10: Morning Update

We have been officially approved for our booth by our Service Unit Director.

Sunday May 2, 10am-2pm we'll be running a lemonade stand downtown in honor of the 4th annual National Lemonade Day. We will be working on our Careers Try It, while earning money for our troop. Brigid's birthday party (which we have all been invited to) starts at 3pm the same day.

Each girl needs to commit to working at least 1-2 hours at our stand.  Call Mandy to sign up for your time.
10am: Brigid + dad
All Day: Mandy and Gloriana

We will need at least 4 girls and 4 adults at a time:

• 2 girls will be in the booth selling- with an adult supervisor. 
• One adult will be in charge of lemonade supply supervision- using random girls as laborers when needed.
• 2 girls will be out front, advertising- with an adult supervisor.
• One adult will be our gopher, should we need anything during the sale.

The girls will all rotate jobs. Each girl needs to know the cost of her product, how to make change, and what we are doing with our profits. We'll go over all of this prior to the sale, but the answer to that last one is "Funding Activities and Community Service Projects!"

Our stand will have a Luau Theme. Think grass skirts and tropical dresses. Dads can wear Hawaiian shirts. If you have any decorations that will go with our theme- please let me know ASAP if we can borrow or have them. Throughout this week, whenever the girls are available, we need to gather  to work on decorating our booth, making signs, and making costumes.

Tuesday: The girls played while the moms hacked up paper bags to make a "grass" fringe to hang from our canopy. Mandy had 2 large pieces of  particle board- Adriana's sister is going to paint them for us. They will be our pricing signs.
Wednesday: Mandy doesn't feel well. We'll postpone Wednesday's plan until Thursday.
Thursday: Gloriana is bringing butcher paper. The girls will gather at the local park to paint the banners for our stand.
Friday: We only got one banner done yesterday as it was very windy. Adriana worked on a sign at home. The girls worked on our pricing signs. Today we will work on another banner (we're trying to have 4.) We will also discuss booth behavior and our advertising strategy.

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Girls should use word-of-mouth advertising to be sure our booth gets plenty of business on Sunday!
If you have not registered, please do so. You need to visit the Lemonade Day website, register, note that you are with Girl Scout Troop 1563, enter the "best stand" contest, and afterward, go to one of the area Runtex locations to pick up your free backpack. OR you can just register inside the Runtex store. The backpack is not a necessity, so don't worry if you haven't picked yours up.

Our Stand Concept:

I have a 10x10 portable canopy to shade us. It has weights, too, so we don't have to worry about it blowing away.

We will decorate our stand A) to attract customers B) to make it more fun and C) so we can enter the Best Stand contest.

We will also have a few chairs, but just like a the Cookie Booths, we should avoid sitting as it makes us appear lazy. 

The city of Austin is allowing lemonade stands to operate without a permit on this day only. I looked on-line- there are going to be stands just about everywhere. We will set up downtown, somewhere near the Pecan Street Festival. Gloriana and I will be the first out to set up and we will call you with the exact location.

Julie has leis for the girls to wear. Atalli's grandma bought the troop hula skirts, leis, and flowers for their hair. Gloriana bought tiki torches to decorate with (we won't be lighting them.) We're keeping all receipts so we can return any unused items.

Supply Needs:
-We already have one table from Amri's dad.
- We have two more tables from Gloriana.
-We need coolers/ice chests for holding ice.
-Gloriana is providing 2  large igloo coolers with spouts.
-Julie is bringing Almond Extract so we can have Unique and Fancy Lemonade.
-Stirring spoons
-Gloriana has secured an ice donation.
-We will need gallon jugs of water.
-Adriana  is working on lemonade mix donations.
-If someone wants to provide a couple watermelons, that would be great. Watermelon Lemonade might be pretty economical...and delicious!
-oodles of small cups- ask for donations from restaurants. Amri and I did that for an hour on Tuesday and got a very positive response. I have donation slips if any of you want to take some with you.
-a garbage can
-trash bags
-rubber gloves for the prep team

We need to go out and ask every store we can (HEBs, Targets, Walmarts, Randalls, Walgreens, CVSs, Party City,etc.) for donations off this list. The Parmer HEB wants to help, but asked me for our Tax ID and an IRS form. I now have our tax ID#, but I don't have the IRS paper.

I recommend asking every restaurant you can think of if they'll donate a sleeve of small to-go cups. We will also accept large cups, but we need a ton of kids cups.  Anything we can't get by this weekend, we'll have to purchase. But that also teaches us a business lesson: Sometimes you have to spend money to make money.

I will be updating this post throughout the week, so check back often- or feel free to call me.
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