Are you a child or teenager looking for ways to earn money? Want to earn extra money for everyday spending or save up for a bigger purchase? For example, a new phone or powerful computer for gaming, a ticket to the next Brainstorm concert or a new pair of shoes. If only there was a way to make money fast… Luckily for you, all it takes is some creative thinking and a few tips from us.
- Wash your family’s dirty clothes.
Give your parents a break and do the dirty laundry for a small reward.
- Make friendship bracelets and sell them to friends and neighbours.
Make them extra pretty and sell them for more.
- Help prepare meals for a week.
Get up early and make breakfast for your family.
- Make your own necklaces from old T-shirts.
Make money with friends by creating your own trend.
- Sews princess costumes and sells them to her little sisters.
They will be grateful to you for life!
- If you go to music school, you can earn money as a private teacher.
You can teach them the basics.
- Make bread with nuts and dried fruit and sell it to your neighbours.
Who doesn’t love homemade bread!
- Use shutterfly to make a virtual memory album for family members and sell it to them.
That would be interesting and very nice.
- Selling homemade ice cream or iced smoothies on a hot summer day in a crowded place.
Very refreshing!
- Make your own bath bombs and sell on etsy.com
Use essential oils to make your balls 100 times better.
Read this article: Etsy Selling Platform: How to Triple Your Sales
- Make snack boxes and sell them in your neighbourhood.
Put healthy snacks like cheese, nuts and celery stalks inside.
- Set up a laser tag area in your backyard and charge a small fee.
You can make laser guns out of cardboard and pretend they’re real.
- Make your own slam!
On the internet, you can find different “recipes” for different types of slams. Find your favourite, make it and sell it to your friends.
- Be a private teacher.
Are you good at maths? Do you know English? Maybe you can even help younger children learn to read. Place an ad in your local library or school.
- Make earring holders from picture frames and
You can sell them on etsy.com or perhaps at a school fair.
Read this article: Etsy Selling Platform: How to Triple Your Sales
- Ask your local newspaper publisher if they need someone to deliver the papers.
You can earn money by cycling.
- Open your own car wash!
On a warm summer day, you and your friends can open a car wash in your backyard. Make flyers to spread the info.
- Golf club assistant.
If, in case, there is a golf club in your area, you can ask if any players need a helper to bring balls and help with other stuff.
- Hold a garage sale.
Ask your parents if you can sell the junk in your room that you don’t use. What may seem useless to one person may be very useful to another.
- Ask your neighbours a week before the day if they need some home-made venison cheese and make it for them.
Home-made cheese, however, tastes different from shop-bought cheese.
- Rent or borrow a metal detector from someone.
Then head to the beach or a backyard park to find rings, coins and other goodies.
- Make your own face masks.
Find a recipe for a homemade face mask, put it in a cute little jar and sell it. Or turn your house into a spa and give relaxing facials to your friends.
- Organise a Princess Tea Party for the little girls of the neighbourhood.
Make nice, healthy canapés and ask to be paid for them.
- Make huge crepe paper roses.
Do you know someone who is expecting a baby or is about to have a birthday? Paper roses are the perfect decoration for both occasions.
- Make small terrariums in teacups.
Plant small cacti in old teacups and sell them to friends.
- You are fixing Mickey Mouse’s ears.
Offer to make personalised Mickey Mouse ears for a well-known Disney fan.
- Draw pet portraits.
Are you good at art? Ask friends and acquaintances if they need a drawing of their furry friends.
- In summer, water, chips and sweets are sold at a local sports event.
People will appreciate it!
- Keep cool pencils, erasers and snacks in your bag and sell them to your classmates during breaks.
Before you do this, ask the teacher if it’s allowed.
- Train someone’s puppy.
If you have dogs at home and you think you know how to handle them, you can post flyers in public places offering to teach your puppy a few tricks.
- Make doll clothes.
If you’re good with a needle and thread, make little clothes for dolls and sell them to children in playgrounds.
- Safrize your friend’s dog.
If you know a dog that needs combing, offer to do it for the owner. You can also take him down and clip his feathers.
- Offers to tidy up the room.
If you notice your friend’s room is messy, offer to tidy it up for a small fee. That’s how you help a friend and make their parents happy.
- Find free furniture that people need, refurbish and improve it, then sell it.
People like old things with a twist.
- Sell your clothes at a second-hand shop or a flea market.
Your wardrobe will be cleaned and you’ll earn bonus money!
- Grows your own vegetables and fruit and sells them at the local market.
Grow cherry tomatoes and other stuff that people might really like.
- Make wallets using patterned adhesive tapes.
You can now buy adhesive tapes in all colours and patterns!
- Help older people in the neighbourhood with their homework.
For example, take out their rubbish or go to the grocery store for groceries – you could be a big help.
- Draw your own comic books.
If you like comics, make your own and sell them to family and friends.
- Make papier mache piñatas for birthday parties.
Pinjatas can be made quickly and easily. Find the tutorial on YouTube and go!
- Judge local sports matches.
Ask your parents how you could get a job as a judge.
- Help older people with setting up electronics.
Your grandmother will appreciate it.
- If you have any old computer or video games on disc, sell them on eBay.
There are always people looking for games that are no longer available in shops to collect.
Read this Dig: How to Make Money on Ebay: 39 valuable tips
- Wipe up all the dust at home.
Promise Dad that you will also clean all the cobwebs from the ceiling.
- Team up with a photographer to help make young children smile in pictures.
And charge a small fee for it.
- Be a lifeguard at a swimming pool.
If you’re old enough, see if your local swimming area needs a lifeguard.
- Selling home-made group shirts.
Find out what music your friends listen to and make them t-shirts of their favourite bands.
- Play a musical instrument in a public place.
If the instrument you play can be easily moved, then go show the townspeople what you can do! Bonus point if you can sing.
- Be a mum’s assistant for a day.
Your mum will always appreciate your help. Offer to clean up the kitchen after dinner, or cook dinner, or whatever you need help with, for a small fee.
- Improving someone’s yard.
If your neighbours’ garden is not in perfect order, offer to cut the grass or plant some flowers.
- Plan your family’s next trip.
Become a personal travel agent. Find a suitable hotel and restaurants in the area you are planning to visit.
- Help someone improve their instagram.
Know someone who has too many non-selfie photos? Offer some pictures for them!
Read this article How to Make Money with Instagram
- Make warm blankets.
During the summer holidays, you can make warm, colourful blankets to sell to family and friends, which will definitely come in handy on chilly autumn evenings.
- Organise an open-air movie night in your garden.
Make a huge screen out of a white sheet and buy a projector. Put flyers all over your neighbourhood, charge admission for the film and the picnic.
- Walk the dogs.
Check the internet to see if there is anyone nearby who should take your dog for a walk.
- Touch the house.
If someone is going on a long trip, you can look after their house, water their flowers and do other things that need doing.
- Works on a farm.
There’s always something to do in the countryside in summer – just ask local farmers.
- Sells lemonade and biscuits.
You can never go wrong with this classic idea. Set up a lemonade stand in front of your house and bake cookies to sell with the lemonade.
- Create unique cake decorations.
Bake birthday or wedding cakes with special edible decorations on the cake.
- Create a blog for someone.
Know someone who has an idea for a blog? Show him your skills and offer to make a blog for him.
Read this article: Blogging for beginners: where to start?
- Offer to rent films to your friends.
If a friend complains that a film is not on Netflix, help them out and lend out your DVD copy if you have one.
- Design your own sneakers.
Paint something beautiful on ordinary sneakers and sell it on Etsy.
- Build your own fairy playhouses and sell them.
Make houses, paint them nicely and sell them to children in the neighbourhood.
- Make a cat claw scratcher.
Find a YouTube tutorial on how to do it and sell it at your local flea market.
- Learn to pickle vegetables sold in cute jars.
You can flavour almost anything and it will taste good!
- Clean car interiors.
Take a hand-held vacuum cleaner and give your neighbours’ car interiors a good clean.
- Sell your Pokémon cards.
You will make a child very happy.
- Make origami decorations.
Origami is easy and fun to make and can be used to decorate a room beautifully.
- Sell your keyrings.
If you have interesting keyrings, you could try selling them.
- Mix the dry ingredients for the biscuit dough, put in jars and sell as a biscuit mix.
Add a variety of interesting ingredients like raisins, chocolates and nuts.
- Take online surveys.
If you understand English well, you can fill in the questionnaires at swagbucks.com and cashcrate.com. It’s an easy way to make money.
- Offers to make someone’s birthday cake.
Make one with special decorations to suit the big day.
- Draw cartoons at a local market.
People like cartoons.
- Straighten colourful hair ornaments.
Buy colourful feathers and beads at the craft shop and make pretty hair ornaments.
- Decorate dog kennels.
Improve your neighbours’ dog kennels by painting them.
- Be a make-up artist!
Is it your best friend’s birthday? Offer to paint him for the occasion!
- Organise a face-painting stall.
Make your own art corner at the city festival.
- Improve the clades.
Improve boring notebooks with stickers and pretty sticky notes and sell them to schoolmates in September.
- Work as a guide!
If you are old enough, see if you can get a job as a guide/guide at a local museum or zoo.
- Organise a cookery fair.
If you’re good at baking cakes and buns, make a variety of treats and set up a stall in a crowded area.
- Create themed invitations.
Know someone planning a big party? Offer to make invitations for them and send them out to guests.
- Set up a manicure and pedicure salon.
Delight grandma and mum with a beauty salon at home for a nominal fee.
- Paint fences.
Help your neighbour with their home maintenance and paint their fence.
- Batik shirts.
A lot of shirts are sold at the weekend.
- Give someone’s room a makeover.
Help decorate your little sister’s room.
- Wash the windows.
They offer to clean the windows in your whole house for just a few euros.
- Moves files from discs to your computer.
Take your parents’ old drives and offer to move all the files to the family computer.
- Decorate jewellery boxes.
Give your own design to the wooden boxes, which you can certainly buy in a craft shop.
- Set up a shoe shine stand.
Get your shoe polish and go!
- Grow flowers in your yard.
And sold to local people.
- Offers film production services.
Edit your cousin’s dance performance into a nice video and ask to be paid for the work.
- Organise a Harry Potter Calambola game for kids in your backyard.
A participation fee of EUR 1 per participant is charged.
- Make art on old music sheets.
Paint your own design on music sheets and sell it.
- Make a puppet theatre for children.
Set up a small stage in the courtyard and charge admission.
- Adi soft toys.
Who doesn’t like soft things? Buy yarn and stuffing and let your imagination run wild to create beautiful things.
- Be a purchasing assistant.
Ask your local grocery store if they are looking for someone to help with small jobs.
- Ask your friends if they have any unwanted items and try to sell them.
You can sell your best gains on the stock market.
- Make shell wreaths.
Glue glue found by the sea onto the base of a wreath and sell them as decorations.
- Collect your family’s waste.
Clean out the cupboards that have been accumulating unwanted items for years – your parents will be very grateful.
- Labo Computers.
Show off your tech skills and clean viruses and other problems from your friends’ and neighbours’ computers for a small fee.
