How to Earn Money (For Kids)
Steps
- Work for somebody else. Advertise your availability to the neighborhood. Make up some flyers and stick them to the neighbors front door.
- Do extra chores for your parents (dust furniture, vacuum carpets, sweep floors, scrub windows). Negotiate the best fees you can, maybe half what they might pay a professional.
- Mow lawns. Charge different fees depending on the size of the yard.
- Sell some of your things that you don't want, with your parents permission.
- Walk dogs. They love it, and it would really help out the owner.
- Babysit smaller children. Take a babysitting course.
- Look after the neighbors pets when they go off on vacation. .
- Work for yourself.
- Sell lemonade on a hot summer's day. See How to Make Lemonade, How to Open a Lemonade Stand and How to Compete with Other Lemonade Stands. Use hand-painted drinking glasses. Give customers an option to buy the glasses with their lemonade. Offer drinks in paper or plastic cups for a cheaper price.
- Buy those teen magazines (Astro Girl, J14, etc.) and tear out the posters and sell them to your siblings.
- Sell homemade cookies, brownies, cakes or muffins.
- Sell gum
- Sell candy at school. You can make around $80 by selling a big bag of jolly ranchers for 25 cents a piece. If it's against school rules... don't get caught.
- Wash cars and bikes
- Make your own greeting cards then sell them.
- Some states accept glass bottles, soda cans, and plastic bottles at grocery stores, you usually get 5 cents each, but when you bring a really big bag you can get a lot.
- Make signs and sell signs. If a new business is opening ask if they would like a few signs and create them and sell them per bundle or sheet.
- Find out if there's a craft fair near you which charges small fees or no payment at all. Open your own booth with some friends and sell handmade cards, jewelry, or sculpey figures. Your booth can be as small as a card table or as big as a tent!
- Ask your parents if you can have a few friends over and go to the flea market and set up a booth and sell items there.
- Buy a gum ball machine and place it prominently in your house. Good location include places where your parents empty their pockets of spare change in the evening when they come home from work. If the members of your family prefer chocolate, find a machine that dispenses M&M candies. A five-year-old girl in Oregon collected more than 200 quarters ($50.00) in approximately nine months.
- Hire others to work with you. Organize a car wash or sell tickets to a talent show.
- Invest your money to work for you. You will need the help of an adult to set up the accounts, but when your money works for you it never takes a holiday.
- Earn interest with a savings account.
- Buy stock: some companies sell single shares of stock for as little as $25. See OneShare.com.
- open a Roth IRA for as little as $1000 (several restrictions apply... or do they?).
- You can put something totally amazing in your room and leave a jar out saying you must pay ___ (insert amount of money here) to come in unless you have express written consent or here to put my clothes away etc.
Tips
- Be polite and kind to your customers and they will buy something
- Charge reasonable prices!
- Ask for help when you need it.
- Return money if you promised to do a job but couldn't get the job done!
- Have fun. If you're in a group,do not make name tags.
- Decorate poster board with "(insert your name)'s toy shop"
- Decorate your desk or table to make it look more pleasing to your customers.
- Accept donations instead of asking for a specific amount of money. Sometimes people surprise you with their generosity.
- Be willing to work for little pay until you can get a new job.
- Have good manners.
- Give praise to passerby,they may like the compliment and have some spare change.
- Think of fun and good ways to make money. Their are many many things you can be doing. Your parents are the best.
- Don't force somebody to buy something from you.
- Buy video games cheap at one store or from another person and then sell it for more.
Warnings
- Never go with strangers!
- Have an adult with you or to help you.
- Make sure you ask your parent or guardian before starting to work.
- If your child wants to do one of these activities, don't leave him or her alone outside. Keep an eye on them. Many people will be approaching.
- Don't do anything to the people's food or any of the objects that you are selling.
- Don't sell broken toys or video games that don't work, the buyers will only ask for their money back!
