Colorful balloons, delicious cupcakes, sweet candies, and hordes of toys were what welcomed us when we reached the venue. Though it sounds like we went to a fun party, it was actually a bazaar we went to. The atmosphere was so festive that it did seem like we were in a children’s party.
On November 10, our brood of four trooped to Tiendesitas to check out Junior Preneur, a bazaar that encouraged children to be entrepreneurs and taught them the value of hard work. Little entrepreneurs wearing yellow shirts were quite busy manning their respective booths and encouraging shoppers to try their products.
The first booth my kids took a liking to was Sebastian’s Sweets. There were several other booths that offered decorate-your-own cupcakes but this was the first one that we saw. Jade and Jakei sprinkled their respective cupcakes with different treats – and happily ate them after. Oh, and they also gave them a tiara and a superman wrist band that my two little troopers absolutely loved!
While checking out the various booths, we saw these little girls going around the bazaar and selling their sweet treats. Now that’s what you call active marketing!
Our little ones were also drawn to this booth, D’Cousins Boothing-things, that sold various trinkets. What caught their attention were these plastic eyeglass frames that had flashing lights. Even Jakei pleaded to have the green one even if we told him they were for girls. He insisted that it was green and that green is for boys. 😛 We went around the bazaar several more times and whenever we passed this booth, the cousins were always busy talking to a shopper. Naturally, they received the Block Buster Award and the FMCG Award for their other product, Buko Master.
To entertain shoppers, and the little entrepreneurs as well, Junior Preneur arranged a program full of exciting activities for all those in the bazaar. We arrived late and missed some of the shows and activities which included a Pet Show by the Zoomanity group. We did catch a performance by a little girl and a few games though.
It was while we were watching one of these shows that a little girl – Moiraine as we later found out – handed me a business card. My ever curious princess Jade asked what the little girl handed me and I showed it to her. A short while after, she tugged at my hand and asked if she could see the dresses. Apparently, this was what she read in the card, “Purple: Dresses & Dresses for Cutie Kids to Pretty ladies.” And, mind you, she knew exactly where the booth was coz she had been watching what Moraine had been doing. So off we went to the booth where she asked for a purple dress (see pic below). Purple will also be at a bazaar in UP Diliman on November 23-24. Do take your little prinsesses with you and get pretty dresses at affordable prices. 😀
While waiting for the awarding ceremony to start, we chanced upon Xsight Fotografia‘s photobooth and had a couple of pics taken. Aside from photobooth set-ups, they also offer photo and video coverages for events.
Junior Preneur culminated with an awarding ceremony to acknowledge all the hard work the young ones and their parents did. All the little entrepreneurs were given certificates for participating in the 1-day Business Entrepreneurship Exercise. Special awards were also given to those who did exceptionally well in the bazaar.
Congratulations to CRISTA for winning the CEO Award and HEART CRAFTS for the Megabrand Award!
For their spectacular booth design, PIK ‘N KIP won the Stand Out Award
The biggest winners at the bazaar – D’ COUSINS! Hanna Sophia Sanoza(12), Haedi Ysabel Sanoza(10), and Naomi Myllae Ofilando(9) bagged two awards: Block Buster Award for D’COUSINS BOOTHING-THINGS and FMCG Award for BUKO MASTER.
Judging from the happy faces of the children in the bazaar and my own children’s behaviour after, I would say that Junior Preneur was successful in its primary objective to stir entrepreneurship in children. The very next day, my little girl placed some of her toys in a bucket and proceeded to our door where she began calling out, “Toys, toys, toys for sale!” Oh yeah, my four-year-old’s entrepreneurial spirit was definitely stirred. And she hasn’t stopped asking me to get our own store. 😀
Cherry Saculo, Director of Junior Preneur, is quite satisfied with the outcome of the bazaar and intends to organize more activities to increase financial literacy in the Philippines by teaching the children the importance and value of money, hard work, saving for the future, and social responsibility. Through the first Junior Preneur bazaar, parents and children all learned valuable lessons from the time they conceptualized their products, set-up their booths, and marketed their products. Hopefully, parents will continue to support their kids’ penchant for business as we all want to see them work their way to being the future magnates of our country.
Junior Preneur is already lining up a series of activities to help our young entrepreneurs in their journey to success. For more information about these events, visit http://www.facebook.com/JuniorPreneur or http://juniorpreneur.org/.
Wow! This is really nice. There is no better way to learn than this. 🙂
What a great event for kids! I wish I’d known about it. I want my daughter to have a different mindset than I did and this is a great way to show kids that there are a lot of ways to make money than just going to work for a corporation no matter how prestigious.
It’s nice to see little kids interested in business! Juniorpreneur is a great event!
Parang ang saya saya ng event! Really a good way to educate kids and their parents, and start the young ones early on entrepreneurship.
The opportunities for the kids are really boundless these days!!! Congratulations to the organizers for such a festive activity!
The opportunities for the kids are really boundless these days!!! Congratulations to the organizers for such a festive activity!… and on enterepeneuship at that!
Nakakabilib naman mga batang ito! They get to realize the importance of business and finance this early!
I would love my kids to be part of this activity in the future (hahaha) because this will further enhance their enterprising and social skills.
What a fun way to teach kids being a good entrepreneur. For sure it will become a regular event.
It’s nice to see them involved in such activities. It will open their minds with the fun of doing business once they’re adults.
CE 11/13
this is a great way of getting the kids to learn, earn and have fun! love it.
This is so cool! It’s a good way to really bring out the entrepreneur in kids, even though they’re still young. This will be a good thing and I hope they keep up this kind of program. It’s a good way to veer from the employee mindset (not that it’s such a bad thing because I am an employee) . It’s time we instill this early on, and if they have the passion for it, when they grow up, they can be their own bosses.
Galing naman nito! Start ’em young, indeed! 🙂
great event for the kids, they look like the kids are having fun…
That’s a really great way for kids to learn about business and how to make money. Great activity.
This is one great way to encourage kids to learn to invest and start a business. Nice event.
THat was sweet.. and I should say, those kids are really lucky 🙂
that’s nice to teach children at young age entrepreneurship.
This is a nice exercise for kids on entrepreneurship so that when they grow up, they will aspire to put up their own business rather than be an employee in another one’s business.
Btw, did you use an application for your collages? Or did you do it manually using a photo editor?
Hi, Mylene! I use Photoscape to edit my photos. You can download it for free. 😀 I find it easier to use than photoshop.
JuniorPrenuer – Wow, this is such a brilliant idea! Too bad, I didn’t get wind of it. Would have loved to check it out and bring my kids. 🙂 Will be looking out for the next one. Give us a heads up, ok?
very nice event for kids.. 🙂
it’s time we encourage our kids to be entrepreneurs… thanks for sharing your experience 🙂
It is good to be introducing entrepreneurship to children, young as they are.
Great idea for children! Kids do have wonderful ideas and it’s good to harness them.
Looks so much fun! Kids today are so lucky that there are activities such as this.
very nice! i hope in the future years this will be still exiting for my future bebes! hahaha
This is such a wonderful event for the kids. It teaches them the value of hard work and that money doesn’t grow on trees. Hopefully, when Henry grows he would be interested to join such an event. 🙂
this is really a great activity for kids.