Cardboard Lemonade Stand

We made a cardboard lemonade stand yesterday and put 

it out on our deck today for business. I use the term 

"business" loosely because the small vendor was really 

only interested in pouring liquid from cup to cup and 

back into the jug. Good thing it was water, not lemonade. 

Good thing also that we added one important feature to 

the original pattern: strips of transparent mail tape over 

the table surface to waterproof it. Here she is posing 

innocently before she started to play.

The original pattern came from an old issue of Parents 

magazine, which I posted about here. Emily found the 

magazine last week and was desperate to make it. She 

painstakingly wrapped the four posts with tissue paper 

strips to show her commitment to 

collaborating on its construction.

We threw out the play water and refilled the jug for Emily to 

have a turn. There was no actual lemonade involved today 

afterall but we had some of the neighborhood kids stop by 

to play, so it was nice to be able to offer them a calorie-less 

drink, along with some snacks. And we didn't charge 

them a cent - the aforementioned small vendor 

was very generous!