Got an entrepreneur club? These are really fun and educational entrepreneurship club activities for students.
You’ve got an entrepreneurship club, and you want to plan out the next activities you hope students will ENJOY and participate in.
Awesome!
Let me help with some interesting ideas to keep your students engaged and learning.
Entrepreneurship Club Activities for Students
I’ve got a variety of activity ideas, whether you need free entrepreneur club activities for students, or have some money in your budget to spare.
1. Biz Bust Bingo
Businesses go “bust” all the time.
And there are SO many lessons that can be learned from a business’s failures. Maybe even more so than only learning and reading about business successes!
Psst: There’s plenty to learn from business success stories, too, like in these 14 kid entrepreneur books and 4 business books for teen entrepreneurs.
Here’s a fun activity for entrepreneur club students to learn valuable business-ending lessons – they’ll watch videos from entrepreneurs about why their business failed, and play a bingo game around it (free PDFs).
It’s one of my favorite free entrepreneurship club activities for students.
2. Enter an Entrepreneur Youth Competition
Here is a list of wonderful entrepreneur youth competitions and prizes. You could gather a group of interesting students in your entrepreneur club and help mentor them through.
OR, start an entrepreneur club based around one of these competitions and prizes.
It’s a great way to anchor your program.
3. Host a Market Day
Have you thought about coordinating a Market Day for your entrepreneur students?
Each club meeting, they can work on one other aspect of their product creation:
- Pick a problem to solve
- Ideation/brainstorm session
- Deep dive into potential customer bases
- Work on the ingredients/supply list, and price out the cost of producing one unit
- Create the product
- Etc.
I’ve got loads of ideas for really cool products.
Market Day Resources:
- 22 Things for Kids to Make & Sell at School
- 11 Easy Things Kids Can Make & Sell at School
- 7 Simple Market Day Food Ideas
- 5 Third-Grade Market Day Ideas (Supplies from Dollar Tree)
- Market Day Lesson on Pricing Products
4. 3D Printer Prototype Creation
Our local regional library offers kids the chance to print out one 3D print creation every single week.
Do you have access to something similar?
Pick teams, and task each team with creating a product all the way to the 3D-printed prototype.
You’ll ask students to price out the cost of supplies (if they were paying for them), decide what problem the product solves, and come up with one core message to grab future customers’ attention to buy it.
Have them price the product.
When they’re ready, have them feed their design to a 3D printer location.
Each group can then present their prototypes to a panel of judges.
What will the winners get? Here are some classroom reward and prize ideas.
5. Duct Tape Prototype Creation
Maybe you guys don’t have access to a 3D printer, but you could still do the same activity from above, except have the students create their prototype using the ever-so-versatile Duct tape.
And if you’re not sure that Duct tape can really do much?
You’d be surprised – check out these Duct Tape Creation books to help:
- A Kid’s Guide to Awesome Duct Tape Products
- Duct Tape Engineer: The Book of Big, Bigger, and Epic Duct Tape Projects
- Tape It & Make More: 101 More Duct Tape Activities
6. Toothpaste Spot the Differences
Have you taken a look down the toothpaste aisle lately?
There are a gazillion* different toothpastes out there.
The competition is so fierce that a product that is essentially the same from company to company has had to split hairs on what makes each different enough to get a consumer’s attention and to open their wallet.
There are differences, of course.
And that’s what I want your students to laser-focus on here: spot the small differences between each of a bunch of toothpaste products.
Some interesting differences I found while doing this exercise:
- Whitening product added to toothpaste
- Gum care
- Detoxify the mouth
- Tartar protection
- Decrease mouth sensitivity
- Deep clean
- Variety of flavors
- Cavity reduction
- Specific ingredients
- Enamel repair
- Etc.
Then, have them take their list of differences and break them down into “benefits” and “features”.
If they have no benefits from the boxes? Have them take the features and work out what the benefits are.
It’s a really eye-opening entrepreneur club activity for students!
*slight exaggeration…
7. Generic Vs. Brand Blind Taste Test
Generic foods have come a long way since I was a teen.
Many of them are even manufactured in the same facility as the brand-name version.
This is a really fun activity where students get to blindly taste test or use different products – both the generic version and the brand version – and then decide which is better (without knowing which is which).
The results could be surprising to them, and they might just start using more generics (a money-saving tool they’ll use for the rest of their lives).
8. Dollar Tree Duds Activity
There are lots of “dud” products created by brand-name manufacturers that make their way to Dollar Tree shelves for liquidation (at $1.25).
You can find some of these gems and create a whole entrepreneurship activity for students (including free PDFs).
Choose several of these product duds, then have your students work through the free PDFs (with questions like: why do you think this product failed in the market).
9. Online Factory Tour + Free Printable
Maybe your students can’t do an in-person factory tour (that would be a great entrepreneur club activity, too!), but there are lots of virtual ones.
I created a free printable that has prep questions and follow-up questions, plus a list of free virtual factory tours they can choose from.
It’s a pretty fun business activity for students.
10. Business Simulation Game Play
There are some really great business simulation games online that are free to use, and your students can really learn a lot (while having fun).
You’ll want to check these online business simulation games out and change things up by letting your club play them every once in a while.
11. Set Up Business Board Game Stations
There are also some great business board games out there.
You could get your hands on several and set up stations where students can rotate each club meeting.
Here are 9 business and investing board games for students.
Which of these entrepreneur club activities are you most excited to try with your students? I'd love to hear how it goes below.
Amanda L. Grossman
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