This document summarizes the activities of a student cooperative called "Perunika" at Osnovna škola Bartola Kašića school in Vinkovci, Croatia. It discusses how the cooperative was established to teach 39 students entrepreneurial skills like developing business plans and producing/selling products. Some of their successful products included rolls, greeting cards, Christmas decorations, and Easter decorations. The cooperative also runs a stand at an annual Health Fair to promote healthy lifestyles and sells items like seedlings, daisy cream, and calendula cream made by students. The document provides details on the manufacturing process for daisy cream.

1. Osnovna škola Bartola Kašića
Vinkovci
Erasmus+
Young citizens of Europe – our future
April 2015
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
AND HEALTHY LIFESTYLE

2. Entrepreneurs are not born.
They are made.
The key skills children will
need can and should be taught.
Osnovna škola Bartola Kašića
founded students’ cooperative
“Perunika”, which became a member
of Croatian Association of School Cooperatives in May 2014.
Thirty nine students develop their entrepreneurial skills.
They have workshops which help them to develop ideas,
make business plans, produce and sell their products.

3. Rolls, greetings cards and Christmas
decorations were successfully
produced and sold.

4. The next step was expanding the market. Easter
decorations were sold in the city centre.

5. Every year Health Fair is
organized in Vinkovci. It
promotes healthy
lifestyle. Our school has a
stand at the fair.
Students and teachers
distributed proverbs
about the importance of
healthy eating habits and
sold different products
made by the members of
School Cooperative
“Perunika”.

6. Gardening is very popular, so we sold seedlings of
flowers and herbs that we had grown at school, in our
“greenhouse”, which is actually hallway of our gym.

7. Best selling
products were
daisy cream and
calendula cream.

8. Daisy cream: Manufacturing process
Students from the first grade
were also picking daisy flowers
because it is such fun. Flowers
had to be washed.

9. We put the flowers in a
jar, poured olive oil over
them and leave the jar in
the sun for three weeks.

10. In the meantime, we
designed the labels
and prepared
containers.

11. All ingredients were
natural.
We also needed
beeswax and orange oil.

13. Calendula cream

14. Lots of students want to join the School Cooperative
“Perunika” and they will surely contribute to the work of
the company with their ideas.
They will learn how to work in a team and gain other skills
they will need in future life.