Money ideas for kids, Ideas for Kids to Make Money

Student-Faculty Play-off. Sponsor a charity sports event (volleyball, baseball or soccer) between students and teachers. Sell tickets or charge admission at the door.

Talent Show. Hold a talent show at your school. Sell tickets or charge admission at the door.

Neighborhood Flea-market. Get neighborhood families to gather their old books and used clothes and household items to sell.

Art Contest. Hold an art contest at school and with local artists as judges. Sell tickets or charge admission at the door. You could also sell this artwork and donate the proceeds to your favorite cause.

Poetry Reading. Hold a poetry reading in your favorite cafe. Get students or friends to read their own or published poems related to hunger & poverty, discrimination or environmental issues. Pass the hat and ask for contributions.

Fasting. Give up one meal a week or give up junk food for one week and donate the money to a charity that feeds the homeless. Place large containers in each classroom in which students and teachers can place their change.

Party Helper. Help harried parents set up, decorate, supervise, and clean up before, during, and after children's birthday parties and other social events.

Parents Helper. A parents helper is similar to a baby sitter. However, if your child is too young to baby sit on their own, then a job helping parents is a good opportunity. They can help watch someone's kids, assist with the feeding, playing, or doing chores around the house. Later, once your child is older, they would likely have gained some references for regular baby sitting work.

Car Washing. Car washing is a needed service in many communities. Have your child get together with a few friends to offer to wash local cars. See what other professional car washes charge in your area, and price the services competitively.

Animal Caretaker. If you child enjoys animals, then try an animal caretaker business. This might involve walking dogs, dog washing, or general grooming.

Pet-sitting.� A less stressful alternative to baby-sitting. This works well in the summer months when people go on vacation but don't want to put the pets in a kennel. Depending on your child's skill with animals, it can involve as much as feeding, walking, and grooming several dogs or as little as feeding some fish. For older children who know about horse care, this may be another option if there's a stable nearby.

Lawn Clean-up and Outdoor Services.� A good prospect for those who dislike monotonous work. In the spring, this service usually involves pulling weeds, tilling, and planting and in autumn, raking leaves and putting down mulch. Winter may bring work shoveling snow. Your child will probably be able to borrow the garden-owner's tools, but it's best if they have a basic set of their own. Also in the home-care area, with some number stencils, a can of bright-colored paint and a brush and your child can go door to door and offer to paint house numbers on houses or driveways.

Cleaning Help. Everywhere, in every neighborhood, is someone willing to pay good money for cleaning help. Garages, basements, and attics are all areas that occasionally need some down to the bottom cleaning. These are also areas that people just seem to hate to clean. Children can offer to clean on their own, or as an aide to the homeowner.

Yard Work. Yard work is an all time favorite of kids that are looking to make a little bit of extra money. The reason that this can be a great way for kids to make money is because a lot of people hate this aspect of owning a home. In addition, there are also a lot of people that are too old to get out in the yard and go to work. When it comes to yard work, there are many activities that kids can complete. One of the most common is simply cutting grass. This is a relatively easy job for most kids, and by getting a couple of steady clients they can make a lot of money over the course of a year. During the winter months, snow removal is also a great way for kids to make money. Again, most people hate doing this so they are more than happy to pay kids a couple of bucks to shovel their driveway and walk.

Seasonal Celebration. Hold a seasonal pot-luck dinner. For instance, in autumn ask participants to bring a seasonal dish. Eat outside under colorful trees. Organize simple games and activities to attract children to the event - leaf rubbings, scavenger hunt and story-tellings. Charge admission.

Birthday Donations. On birthdays students can ask parents, friends and grand-parents to make a donation to a special organization instead of buying a gift. Students can do the same for other people's birthdays. Make up a card for the birthday person explaining that a donation was made in honor of his/her birthday to a local organization.

Errands and Assisting. Your child can either offer a general errand service (pick up groceries, take letters to the post office) or offer their services as a party assistant, garage-sale assistant or other event-specific work. A lot of small jobs are overlooked when we are organizing something major and there is always room for a responsible young person who can pick up the loose ends.

Arts and Crafts.� If your child is skilled in arts and crafts, they might be able to sell their work. They can set up a stand in a high foot-traffic area or if they are sociable, sell them door to door. They might also ask around at smaller craft shops to see if they can sell their finished crafts on consignment. If your child is a dabbler in crafts, look around together for a specific craft that might sell well such as beaded jewelry, hand-made greeting cards, candles, soap, etc.

Clown. Kids make great clowns and can hire themselves out to birthday parties, senior citizen groups, nursing homes, and other community gatherings.

Tutor. Is your child very bright in a school subject, such as math or history? Have them offer their services as a tutor to younger children. Teachers may even be able to suggest possible clients.

Farm Help. While this is not technically a business, for those kids that live rurally, hiring themselves out as farm hands is a good way to make extra cash. Many farms need help that do not require kids to be by machinery. Stacking hay bales, picking rocks, cleaning barns, grooming animals, picking vegetables, all seem like hard work, but many kids like to work at these jobs. Older teenagers often enjoy the work, as it is mostly outside and peaceful.

When kids ask for money, we usually joke with them, telling them to go get a job. There are many odd jobs children can do to earn spending money for themselves as well as the cash they make. Kids are always complaining about being bored over the summer, so giving them things to do, such as a project painting the fence or cleaning out the garage, will alleviate boredome. They may also learn some lessons in the experience of having a summer job; discipline, the value of the money and the satisfaction of the job well done. Some ideas for summer jobs for kids include:

Cooking meals
Cutting lawns
Landscaping assistant
Bagging groceries at the local store
Polishing silver
DJ for parties
Gift wrapping
Face painting

Buy seeds in bulk from the national seed catalogs to get lower prices, going together with other members of the school community or other schools, or local community gardens and then resell the seeds at a small profit to others in the neighborhood.

Use interesting, old discarded objects from your home, or from finds in the alley for containers (pots, tubs, bathtubs), beds (old stones or even broken bricks, lumber) or garden art (scarecrows, statues, fence hangings).

Organize a bus tour for gardeners, parents, residents in your neighborhood to some garden related destination (local community gardens, Botanic Garden, natural site like a forest preserve) and charge enough admission to cover costs and leave a little for a new garden project.

Organize students in your school art and science classes to design cards and games with a garden theme like Plant Bingo, Garden Maze board game, Garden Trivial Pursuit, etc. Then plan a 'Games Night' at school and charge admission.

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