This summer my kids and I explored the world of how kids make money in our local area – and online…we thought it would be great to share what we found:

1. Selling Cups of  Distilled Water With Ice
2. Lemonade Stands
3. Ice Tea Stands
4. Snow Cone Sales
5. Misting Stations (water misting on faces and such)
6. Paper Routes
7. Lawn Mowing
8. Lawn Sprinkling
9. Watering Gardens
10. Weeding Gardens
11. Child Minding / Babysitting
12. House Cleaning
13. Dog walking
14. Doggy Bath’s / showers
15. Customized Handmade Cards
16. Designing Scrapbook Pages
17. Custom Artwork / Scanned / Printed / Framed
18. Custom Paintings on Canvas
19. Craft Corners (Teaching others to do crafts)
20. Making / Selling Handmade Jewelry (Beaded / Knotted Bracelets/Necklaces / Hair Clips)
21. Brochure Canvasing (Door to Door)
22. Sales (Door to Door)
23. Writing Poems
24. Writing Stories
25. Blogging (for adsense / advertising)
26. Product Reviews (on blogs)
27. Social Networking / Link Building (making money to talk about businesses/products/services)
28. Setting up blogs for others
29. Setting up social networks (facebook/twitter pages) for others
30. Creating email marketing campaigns for others
31. Writing email marketing messages for others
32. Creating YouTube videos for others
33. Creating music MixTapes for others

Did you get any good ideas on how kids can earn money from these small summer businesses?  Are you excited to start making your own money now too?  We hope so.  We want you to be big success with whatever you do!