Dragon's Den Classroom Activity _ Examples

Activity to use in the classroom
Creative thinking

1. Dragon’s Den:
Hit or miss?

2. Choose your
product

3. Gluten, GMO
and sugar
free organic
cereal
AFTER THE SHOW AIRED, THE COMPANY SALES SPIKED HIGHER THAN THE
MULLINS’ PROBABLY DREAMED POSSIBLE, AND SALES OF THEIR
PRODUCT WENT FROM 100 UNITS A MONTH ONLINE TO 2,000 PLUS A
DAY, MAKING THE COMPANY OWNERS MILLIONAIRES IN A FEW SHORT
BUT PRODUCTIVE MONTHS.

4. Jewellery which
identifies people as
single and “available”

5. Dig-it gardening
gloves designed
for women with
long nails.
Since the 2010 deal, sales have grown into the millions according to Johannson,
with big box partners like Home Depot, Canadian Tire and Lowes. The company
is in the process of expanding in the US and have grown from 30 accounts when
they’d reached the den to hundreds and counting.

6. Since the show, the company has seen $2 million in sales and are forecasting $7
million for 2014.

7. Rascal dog litter tray.

8. Pop&GoKnickers.
Now sold in 10 different outdoors chains.

9. UV Body sculpturing.
Thanks to a truly atrocious pitch, he was
laughed out of the room and the product
was never sold commercially.

10. The swimfinswimming float.
Well, it was laughed off the show,
but Kevin made it anyway. In its
first year of trading, Swimfinhas
become an international
sensation with orders flooding in
from 47 countries and sales
topping 70,000.

11. Theft deterrent
sandwich bags..
Are you sick of your packed lunch going missing from
the office fridge? Well those horrors could soon be a
thing of the past with the theft deterrent sandwich
bags.
For just $4.99 you can get a plastic sandwich bag
with fake mould printed onto it. Those green
splodges will mean that no matter how light-fingered
your colleagues are, they’ll keep their hands off your
lunch.

12. Name Bought(-50) Sold(+50)