How can you tell they’ve got it: Making Something to Sell?

If they’ve got it, you’ll see things like: Create a simple product (craft, drawing, baked item) that could be sold; Explain what makes their product good enough for someone to want to buy it; Suggest a fair price for their product and give a reason. Or just try it together: If your child made something at home — like friendship bracelets or decorated biscuits — could they explain why someone might want to buy them?

Life Skills Entrepreneurship Ages 5–7

Making Something to Sell

Your child can make something simple to sell, like a drawing or a biscuit. They can say why someone would want it, and set a fair price.

In curriculum terms

The experience of creating a product to sell — a craft, a drawing, baked goods; what makes something worth buying; pride in making something others want

Ages are typical, not deadlines — follow your child’s pace. How to help at home →

How to tell they’ve got it

Tick these off as you see them — no test required.

Create a simple product (craft, drawing, baked item) that could be sold
Explain what makes their product good enough for someone to want to buy it
Suggest a fair price for their product and give a reason

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Try this together

If your child made something at home — like friendship bracelets or decorated biscuits — could they explain why someone might want to buy them?

Where this sits on the map

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Builds on

Buyers & Sellersages 5–7Must understand exchange before making something to sell

Goods & Servicesages 5–7Must know what goods are before creating a product to sell

Needs & Wantsages 5–7Cross-domain: needs vs wants (Money & Finance) helps understand what makes a product desirable

Making Something to Sellthis skill · ages 5–7

Unlocks

Having a Business Ideaages 7–9Must have experience making something to sell before generating business ideas

Who Is a Customer?ages 5–7Making a product helps understand what customers want

Being a Good Sellerages 7–9Selling experience provides context for understanding honest business practice

solid = must come firstdashed = helps

Curriculum alignment

Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.

Show candidate curriculum codes · 1 ACARA · 2 NSW

Australian Curriculum v9 candidate

AC9TDE4P01low confidenceYear 3–4 · Processes and production skills

explore needs or opportunities for designing, and test materials, components, tools, equipment and processes needed to create designed solutions

NSW syllabus codes & stages only

STE-DDT-01low confidenceScience and Technology K-6 · Early Stage 1

ST1-DDT-01low confidenceScience and Technology K-6 · Stage 1

These are candidate alignments generated by semantic matching — machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1), not official or verified mappings. For official curriculum content see australiancurriculum.edu.au, curriculum.nsw.edu.au and f10.vcaa.vic.edu.au. Don’t rely on them for registration or compliance purposes.

Nearby on the map

Buyers & Sellersages 5–7 Goods & Servicesages 5–7 Who Is a Customer?ages 5–7 Being a Good Sellerages 7–9

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