How Kids Can Make MoneyAre you looking for ideas on how kids can make money?Your kids probably are too. The following pages will have a lot of cool, profitable and fun ideas. From jazzed up lemonade stands to a bag of dog poop or maybe face painters, cup cake bakers and computer programmers. I have plenty of ideas for you but I do have a request... Please read a personal letter from a dad (me) to a parent (you) first. How kids can make money was a big question mark when I was as a young kid with no money in my pocket. There were things I wanted to buy. Things I wanted to do. I just didn’t have any extra money. Neither did my parents. Back then finding a list of business ideas for kids just wasn’t that simple. It is a lot different today. If you want to know how kids can make money, its easy. Just open your eyes and ears. Look and listen. Ideas are all around you. 
If I handed you a 5 gallon bucket and inside that bucket you found some leaves, a few muffins, some dog poop, a pile of dirt, a balloon, some cake, lemons, and a flower. What would you say all of these things have in common? Don’t know? Well, every one of these items (and more) are ideas for how kids can make money by starting a business.
There are four basic types of business.
Ford dealerships sell Ford trucks and cars to their customers at a retail price. The pet store sells animals, pet food and other things at a retail price. You can sell the dirt in the bucket, the flowers, the muffins and the cakes. Well, maybe not the cake and muffins that are in the bucket but other cleaner ones. Ford has automobile dealerships where mechanics will tune and repair the cars that Ford sells. Car detailers will come to your home and clean those cars. Plumbers will come and serve your parents by fixing your plumbing. They are servicing your needs and making your life better. From the ideas in your bucket: You can deliver special dirt to someone’s house.You can rake the leaves off the dirt. You can shovel up dog poop in neighbor's back yards. You can make balloon animals to entertain children. Serving the needs of others around you is how kids can make money. So you see in these four, manufacturing, wholesaling, retailing and service, there are all kinds ideas of how kids can make money just waiting for you to try out. Can you keep a secret? The secret to how kids can make money is... Find a way to make life easier for someone else. Simple huh? Ask yourself what problems or needs do my neighbors have and how can I help them? As you look through the following lists of great money making ideas on pages 2, 3 and 4 keep these quotes in mind when you make your choice: Now lets see some examples on page 2 of how you and other kids can make money and how we can make your business bigger with just a few more ideas added on. Ready? Bring your parents along and head over to: Kids starting a business
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