Life Skills Entrepreneurshipusually ages 5–7

Who Is a Customer?

Understanding that a customer is someone who buys what you make or do; thinking about what customers want and need; the idea that businesses serve people

How to tell they’ve got it

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

Define what a customer is in their own words
Suggest what a customer might look for when deciding whether to buy something (quality, price, looks nice)
Explain why it matters to think about what the customer wants, not just what you want to make

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Try this together

If your child was planning to sell lemonade at a school event, could they think about what would make people want to buy their lemonade rather than someone else's?

Where this sits on the map

Stuck here? Check the skills it builds on first. Confident? Here’s what it unlocks.

Builds on

Buyers & Sellersages 5–7Must understand buyers and sellers before exploring customer concept in depth

Making Something to Sellages 5–7Making a product helps understand what customers want

Who Is a Customer?this skill · ages 5–7

Unlocks

Being a Good Sellerages 7–9Must understand customer concept before learning about customer service and trust

Having a Business Ideaages 7–9Must understand customers before spotting problems to solve for them

Marketing Basicsages 7–9Must understand customers before learning to reach them through marketing

solid = must come firstdashed = helps

Curriculum alignment

Candidate matches to official curriculum codes — machine-suggested, unreviewed (v0.1).

This skill sits outside the F–6 Australian Curriculum — no candidate code matched (v0.1). No NSW K–6 outcome code matched (v0.1). No Victorian Curriculum 2.0 code matched (v0.1).

Nearby on the map

Buyers & Sellersages 5–7 Goods & Servicesages 5–7 Making Something to Sellages 5–7 Being a Good Sellerages 7–9

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