TAMPA, Fla. — A group encouraging young people to learn about business will be selling items this weekend in Tampa Bay.
The Tampa branch of Kids Markets will be selling products at the Spooktacular event in Wesley Chapel. Avalon Park is hosting that event on Saturday, Oct. 18, from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.
The event is free.
Kids Markets is a group where children, ages 5 to 17, can participate in a farmer’s market-style event, run entirely by kids.
“They have to be able to do all the selling themselves. Parents are not allowed to help them. We really want the kids to be selling, and not the kids to be selling on behalf of the parents,” said Taylor Cauley, the Children’s Entrepreneurship Manager for Tampa.
Kids Markets is a group where children, ages 5 to 17, can participate in a farmer’s market-style event, run entirely by kids. (Spectrum News/Matt Infante)
Cauley’s kids — 10-year-old Landon and 8-year-old James — are making soap and chapstick that they will sell at the event.
“It’s just helpful for stuff we might do later in our life,” James told Spectrum Bay News 9.
The Spooktacular is promising food trucks, live performances and bounce houses, in addition to the market.