Tentative Senior Class Project (Subject to change)
Valentine’s Day Candy Grams
“Valentine from a Senior”
Purpose: To foster entrepreneurial skills among our students.
Vocabulary: Capital resources, choice, consumers, cost, demand, entrepreneurship, goods and service, profit and supply.
Project: We devised a Valentine’s project in which the senior class (Business Essential Students) will make holiday themed gifts for other students to purchase.
Process: Candy grams are a great way to celebrate the holiday, teach students about economics, and even make a little extra money for the school as well. We will start with preliminary advertising, just to make the student body aware of the project. Flyers that say something like, “Candy grams, coming soon!” work perfectly. Creating the flyers also gives students experience with Microsoft Publisher, which I usually use for this type of project. Make sure you spell check the flyers before printing them out, and also talk with fellow students about a design.
The next step is to decide on what types of candy you are going to buy. I usually use Wal-Mart, Sams and Oriental Trading which sells candy in bulk.
After deciding on what the candy grams will include, I have students to calculate how much it will cost to make one candy gram of each type, based solely on the price of the materials. Then from there we raise the price to make a profit.
Once we set the price, we go back to the computers and make a new flyer with the price of candy grams and post them around the school. We also type up order forms, which simply ask for sender, recipient, and message. We then go from class to class taking orders and payment.
We collect the order forms and figure out how much candy will need to be purchased based on the number of orders. When the candy arrives, we set out to make the candy grams. Candy grams will be delivered on February 13, 2015.
The budget for candy is $150.00
Funds for candy grams and paper will be donated.
Paulinnia H. Whitlow, Teacher
Business/Computer Essentials
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