We were shopping at Lowes about 3 weeks ago and saw that Lowe’s does FREE Kids Clinics every Saturday at 10am.  So this morning Brandon and I went to Lowe’s  in Lehighton for a class on how to build a dinosaur. When we got to Lowe’s this morning there was over 50 kids waiting to build a dinosaur. Lowe’s had planned for a large turn out so even thought there was alot of kids it was well managed. Lowe’s provided each child with a dinosaur kit, carpenter apron, safety goggles, and a tack hammer. Lowe’s also had several employees there to help, I counted 3 employees.

So I would like to thank Lowe’s for having this program for kids. Brandon really enjoyed building the dinosaur and he can not wait to go back to Lowe’s to build the next project. I would also like to point out that Lowe’s has made a significant investment in this program. So lets break the costs down, 50 dinosaur kits $2 each, 50 aprons $1 each, 50 safety goggles $1 each, 3 full time employees $90 (taking into consideration 1 hour for prep, 1 hour for the clinic and 1 hour of teardown and lets say they make $10 per hour). So grand total for the program is estimated to be about $300 per clinic. Lowe’s does 2 clinics per month so each store spends roughly $7200 per year. Lowe’s currently has 1749 stores, now I am not positive if Lowe’s does this clinic in all the locations but if it does it spends roughly 12 million dollars per year on this program. WOW. These numbers are my best guess so don’ t hold me to them but regardless Lowe’s spends alot of money on a program to help kids learn valuable skills. http://www.lowesbuildandgrow.com/