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Business Games for Kids

There are many games for children both online and offline. However, most of the games aimed at children are purely for fun without any educational precepts. Most educational games focus on basic math or reading skills. Few games deal with business principles or finance principles. As a result, many children have no idea how to run a business or make wise financial decisions. These three games offer the knowledge and basic experience necessary to help children find out how to run and operate a business in the areas of finance, advertising, economics and partnerships.

Lemonade Stand
- Lemonade Stand is a game where kids can run a virtual lemonade stand. The children must create advertising, set a price for lemonade glasses, and deiced how many glasses to make. Each day the program lists the total profits or loss for the day. This teaches children the value of advertising, total profits versus breaking even with supply costs and other basic business principles. The game has a very limited budget and also helps children learn about basic budgeting principles. If the child runs out of money, then he looses the game. Lemonade Stand is available from ae4rv.com.
Hot Shot Business
- This is a somewhat complicated business game from Disney. This game is very educational and offers technical terms about economics and running a small business. This game offers a highly involved tutorial to help children learn how to operate a business financially and competitively. Children must gather funding, install equipment, decide on production, set up advertising and keep profit margins low while running a candy factory or a few other businesses around the virtual town. This game is best suited for children ten years and older. This game has many educational features that are useful for a real economics class as the game uses official economic and business terms.
Be Your Own Boss
- This is a choose your own adventure style game offered on PBSkids.org. In this game a series of options are listed for the kid-friendly businesses of pet walking, car washing and comic book publishing. In this game children choose different options that have different results for each business. Children must choose options from concept, partner options, funding, creating the business, advertising, sales and other business sections. This game allows children to choose several different options and go back to discover a better option if they choose a wrong option.

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