Build a Fun Hot-Dog Cart
Hot-dog carts are an excellent way for children to generate income in your neighborhood. You can build your own hot-dog cart for selling hot dogs on your front lawn or at the sidewalk. A few crafts supplies from a crafts store and some common household items and grocery food are all that you need. The hot dog cart is safe to use since there is no hot grill--the hot dogs having been made before it is on the hot dog cart. Get adult help to cook the hot dogs as well as to assemble your homemade hot-dog cart. Does this Spark an idea?
Instructions
1. Go to a grocery store. Buy a package of hot dogs and a package of hot dog buns. Buy a hot dog fork and mustard and ketchup bottles. Buy paper napkins. Buy six different soft drink cans. Buy three plastic food containers that are all longer than a hot dog.
2. Place the two furniture dollies side by side on the sidewalk in front of your house. Open the legs of the folding table. Stand the folding table on the furniture dollies. Place a disposable plastic tablecloth over the folding table so that it reaches to the ground in front of the folding table.
3. Put two paper plates on the table face down. Draw wheel spokes on each of the paper plates with the black colored marker. Put pieces of double-sided cellophane tape on the inside of the two paper plates. Affix a paper plate to the bottom front left and right sides of the disposable plastic tablecloth that is in front of the folding table to make the "wheels" for your hot-dog cart.
4. Put one of the sheets of paper on the table. Write "HOT DOG STAND" in big letters on one of the sheets of paper with the black colored marker.
5. Put the other sheet of paper on the table. Write "Hot dogs/$2.00" and "Soda/$1.00" beneath it on the sheet of paper with the black colored marker--this will be the menu for your hot dog stand.
6. Go into the house. Put tap water into a pot. Put the pot on the stove. Turn on the stove. Open the package of hot dogs. Put the hot dogs in the pot when the water is boiling. Wait 10 minutes before turning off the stove.
7. Empty the water from the pot into the kitchen sink. Put the cooked hot dogs into the plastic food container. Put the lid on the plastic food container. Put the hot dog buns in the other plastic food container. Put the lid on the plastic food container.
8. Go back outside. Place the food containers with the hot dogs and the hot dog buns on the table. Place the ketchup and mustard bottles on the table. Place the napkins and hot dog fork on the table. Line up the soft drink cans at the front of the table.
9. Place the empty food container on the table to hold the money you will make from the customers buying hot dogs from your hot dog cart. Carefully push the table on the furniture dollies to move your hot dog cart down the street to a new location when you feel that you have sold all the hot dogs you can from the location you started in.
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