Junior Entrepreneurs

Junior Entrepreneurs practice creative problem-solving, a necessary skill for all entrepreneurs, with scavenger hunts, mysteries and crafty puzzles and problems. We always offer free crafting, maker space and building projects as well.

Our community projects recently have included upcycling craft supplies for donated craft kits (Craft-Cycle!), growing micro greens for donation, and upcycling textiles into shop cloths for donation (Re-Rags!)

Children participate in activities by choice. We have many side activities available at any moment, including crafting, STEM building and logic-based games or puzzles. To complement their in-school learning, we include projects and activities around wellness, geography, navigation, nutrition, grammar and mental math skills.

One of our main avenues to independence for our Junior Entrepreneurs is store credit. When the students help with a service project or complete a chore or a thinking challenge, they earn a small amount of store credit which we track. They can spend their credits in our store and when we make our semi-monthly trips to Cumbie’s.

And of course, we will be having messy fun whenever possible.

A Typical Day:
The kids are picked up at the school and we all walk to the town or school playground for a snack and wiggle time before heading inside to do our projects. In the coming year, we will be doing our indoor projects in community spaces, like the school, the library and others. (We decided not to renew our lease at 123 Narragansett Avenue when the new lease would require restrictions on air filtration.)