Ultimate Pot Plants, Candle Jars and Oodles of Noodles were just some of the businesses children at Blenheim School created for their second market day yesterday.
The children spent the term creating their product ideas and businesses from scratch and even designed their own currency – the "Buckeroo".
Blenheim School principal Dina Ahradsen said the market day was a practical way of teachingthe children life skills they would need, such as budgeting and saving.
Blenheim School Board of Trustees chairwoman Kim Crouch said it taught the children "the economics of everyday life".
"It's absolutely marvellous," she said.
"It gets the community involved and the parents involved too. The children learn where products start and where they end up."
Co-owner of Tye Dye World Bridget Stanley, 10, said business had been booming.
The business had sold all of its T-shirts, which had taken about 20 minutes each to make.
Bridget said she liked the idea of the market day because it was "something different" and the skills she learned would be useful when she got older.
The children used profits and wages from their business to buy products from other businesses.
Protocol included the children signing employment contracts "at a children's level, of course", said Mrs Ahradsen.
Mother Marlene Stratford said the day helped prepare the children for future careers and taught them to work for their money.
By SIMON WONG - The Marlborough Express
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