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Acton Children's Business Fair - Bountiful, UT
Saturday, May 10, 2025
3:30PM - 6:00PM
This fair has ended
Rated 4.8★ by participating families
The price to participate in the business fair is $15/booth. This amount should be earned and paid for by the budding entrepreneur(s). This children's business fair is for children's ideas. Please do not apply to this fair if it is a parent's business with a child selling everything. Each mini business will need to bring a table and chair. You can decorate it if you wish. You may bring and setup a canopy/tent. If you intend to have non-packaged food, we encourage you to get a food handler's permit so that you learn from it.
Paul Tanner
🗓️ Started hosting in 2020
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⭐️ 4.7 (23)
54 booths participating
Marley's booth
ZJAO
And 52 others.
Frequently asked questions
The Acton Children’s Business Fair inspires children to discover their inner entrepreneur. The largest entrepreneurship event for kids in North America, this one-day market gives children the opportunity to showcase their very own businesses.
We will accept up to 50 business booths.
Start with our resources page. Read inspiring stories about other young entrepreneurs and play games to hone your business skills.
Application must be submitted online. Please submit one application for each business. Children working as a group should submit one application that includes each child’s information. No more than 3 participants per business.
The application asks to think through some simple, but important elements of their business:
What product or service do you plan to sell?
What is the name of your business (be creative and clever)
What price will you charge for each product/service? How much will each product/service cost you?
How will you pay for your startup costs? If someone is helping you with your startup costs, how will you pay that person back?
How will you advertise/market your business before the fair?
At the end of the fair, how will you determine if your business was a success?
Two cupcake businesses? Not a problem. In general, we will let market forces play out.
The fair will be in a parking lot. Each mini business will set up along the perimeter of the parking lot.
Unfortunately, we are not able to provide electricity to booths. If your business absolutely requires electricity, please figure out how to supply your own.
This event is designed to give children the experience of selling a product or service. If a parent is found selling or promoting a child’s product or service, the parent will be asked to leave. Children are responsible for set up, customer interaction, sales, exchanging money, and clean up. If you are not comfortable doing these things, we encourage you to be brave and do hard things. If you're not ready for it yet, wait until next year.
Parents may help their child fill out the application, but we expect the children to do as much as possible by themselves.
Jeff and Laura Sandefer and a few other families wanted to spark a sense of wonder and entrepreneurship in their children so they created the first Acton Children’s Business Fair in Austin, Texas, in 2007. That year, there were seven entrepreneurs and around 25 attendees. Now, there are over 115 entrepreneurs and 1,500 attendees at the Acton Children's Business Fair in Austin.
