Easy Peasy, Lemon Squeezy Business Ideas That Are Kids-friendly
Present-day situations are stating clearly the need for instilling the urge of entrepreneurship in youngsters’ minds
Kids love being creative and most parents often hold onto the view of their children starting to make money early because to them, kids should:
- understand and learn about the responsibilities of life.
- learn about work ethics.
- understand how to interact with different types of people.
- learn the art of bargaining, buying, selling, and most importantly rejection early on in life, etc.
As kids, children often have, within their limited scope of understanding, some idealized career choices like the teacher, astronaut, doctor, engineer, etc. However, if children are introduced, in an age-appropriate way, to entrepreneurial skills, it can unlock the potential of new interest development which might not be accessible to other children of that specific age.
Other than youngsters making money, starting a kids-friendly business makes for a fun family activity geared with multiple experiences and diverse learning for both parents and kids. Also, with parents forced into the tensity of filling kids’ time, as of pandemic, which was once preoccupied with some sports practice or day camps; the idea of starting kids-friendly business checkmarks all the worries of doing away with boredom and frustration of kids.
A Guide on how to pick amongst kids-friendly business ideas
Although there’s a diverse pool of tutorials available online to learn from, however, the involvement of parents and their guidance makes the activity easier to learn and entertaining overall. Mostly, providing youngsters with the necessary equipment requires within-budget investment and some prior experience that will kick-start their brains allowing creativity to chime in.
As a parent, follow the guideline below to pick a kids-friendly business idea for your kids that’ll help them safely develop entrepreneurial skills and reap the rewards of success as they learn. Remember, however, that you’d be creating an image of entrepreneurship in the minds of your kids through a kids-friendly business you intend to launch and if at any point it becomes boring or if the idea fails to accomplish the intended goal consistently, rather than interest development about the said topic, youngsters might completely let down the idea of pursuing it in the future.
Let’s get done with the guidelines first!
- Before selecting any kids-friendly business idea, make sure you take into account multiple factors that’ll have a marked effect on business success. Factors like commitment, stating up costs, and the risks involved need crucial consideration while selecting a business idea.
- No business idea could be a better option, given the one that focuses on your kids’ interests and strengths. If you can not find any significant interest area of your kid (which is the least probability), you might specify to them your business idea as a goal to be achieved as a family.
- Allow your kid to enjoy some small supervisory role in handling a kids-friendly business that will make them feel some ownership of the business.
- Do bear in mind that as a youngster, you do not want your kids to become overly burdened just because you want them to develop entrepreneurial skills at an early stage and make some money. For that matter, rather than going in for larger scale business projects that might require intense activities to be fulfilled on the kids’ part should be avoided, else they’d find the field to be intense and stray away easily. Aim for small and flexible business ideas that’d allow a balance to be maintained between kids' academic life and business learning activity.
- If the business idea you chose requires internet activity, it’d be better for you to set some boundaries with the internet usage to avoid unnecessary time slippage of your youngsters that might strike an imbalance between their academics and business activity.
- Inspire your kiddos towards a business idea by telling them tales and success stories of the role models of the fields who particularly identify with your kid’s nature and interests. That way, your kids will have a role model to idolize which will make them do things that’d have them resemble their idols.
- Kids-business activity can become all more entertaining and fun to pursue if you involve the entire family with business activities divided between family members.
Having discussed the necessary guidelines, let’s move on to business ideas that are kids-friendly. Following is the list of ideas that appeal to most children depending upon their interests.
1) Lending a Helping Hand to the Neighbourhood
Lending a helping hand to elderly and aged neighbors is not only a good business idea but also serves as a good practice of polishing the sense and manners of etiquette. Setting up a business that offers kids’ services for lawn care, car washing, snow clearing, or similar small chores can even help kids earn skills about different equipment uses, both manual and automatic as well as personal interaction skills.
For the promotion of the kid’s services business, as a parent, you can help your kid to set up a simple e-commerce platform wherein you could help them design a store that offers designated time slots for services offered.
2 Selling or Arranging Balloon Decors and Arts
Plain and monotonous ballons have become a thing of the past. Today, both people and children love to stark creativity with decorated and twisted into various shape balloons.
Mostly, balloons are an extremely loveable item that makes kids feel quite happy and energetic. If your kid loves balloons too then balloon decor and arts would make up for a brilliant kids-friendly business idea. All you need to do is to urge your kids and spark a sense of creativity in their minds by giving them demonstrations.
3) Academic Tutoring
Some kids perform exceptionally better in some subjects like mathematics or computer studies, etc while others fail to achieve even the passing grade. If your kid is a good performer in a certain subject, you can help him to provide tutoring services to his fellow colleagues or age fellows in town, but of course at a small cost.
This is a wonderful small business idea in which you can teach your kids to turn their skills and learning about certain subject matter into a source of income, thereby urging a sense of entrepreneurship and business in their minds. Other than business, one plus point about his kids-friendly business idea is that it will further unlock your kids’ potential in a given subject matter, solidifying their understanding and foundation stone about the subject.
Additionally, most kids find it more entertaining and fun to learn together with their colleagues or age-fellows they’re friends with. That is a plus point both for your kid and the kids to whom your kid will offer tutoring services to.
4) Reviewing Toys for Marketplaces like Amazon
Which kid doesn’t love toys? None!
Toys serve as the first learning tools for kids. From the urge of breaking open a toy to see the tech hidden underneath to the urge of gathering a collection of similar toys arranged beautifully in a closet, toys can make kids really creative.
Regarding the aforementioned kids’ feelings for toys, turning the opportunity into a means of content creation for uploading on youtube or maybe simply writing a review for huge marketplaces like Amazon is a great way to help kids develop entrepreneurial skills.
The plus point you ask?
Well, if your kids succeed at helping your kid in writing quality honest reviews, they might derive a good habit of writing through it, and the skills they’ll develop in writing reviews could later help them in setting up a blog for themselves or start writing to earn on platforms like Medium.
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5) Content Creation
Content creation is not limited to videography or written content alone. It rather is a diverse field that entails more interesting sub-fields like photography, social-media account maintenance, editing and distribution of digital media, and so on so forth.
If your kid is passionate about any of these, there’s a good chance for your kid-friendly business related to content creation strategy to reap the rewards of success.
6) Babysitting
The feeling of being rejected by peers is painful and confusing for kids. While it might break your heart, making you feel that your kid’s being left on the side, it also indicates that your kid requires attention and affection, a friendship to explore new things together.
Rather than overreacting and jumping right in to pull the shields up for your kid, see it as an opportunity of instilling a sense of empathy and develop a sense of love. These emotions can be instilled by having your kid babysit a younger child.
But before you go all business mode into this idea, it’d be better to rehearse some training for the session and see if your kids' (most probably the teens) stance of approaching other kids gets any better. Once you’re sure that your kid is trained enough to babysit, give it a go. With time, your kid will definitely develop a better understanding of how to be friends and include oneself in the team with others.
7) Displaying Advertisements on kids’ bicycles
Bicycling is a fun activity and a healthy sport for both kids and adults. The idea of displaying advertisements on a bicycle seems like a perfect kids-friendly business idea if your kids love having a ride around the town on their bicycle. Every newly found setup looks for suitable advertising space for their business to reach out to the interested audience. Your kids’ bicycle might offer these small family startup businesses a perfect advertisement space that is sure to get the word around the town when your kid enjoys the trip outside.
8) Creating Gift Baskets for Different Occasions
Gift baskets are a great way to enjoy certain occasions with. This leaves plenty of room for youngsters to customize gift baskets in various sizes and shapes, plus it's easy and you can find a whole log of a database for DIY-ing a gift basket at home with your kids making use of minimalist tools, or even from scratch.
You can explore Pinterest databases for a tremendous amount of gift basket design ideas out there that are cheap and could be turned into a business opportunity. All it requires is surfing; and a whole lot of it, until you come across an idea that sparks the sense of, “That’s cool!”
Find that idea, involve your kids and give it a go!
9) Stickers or Colouring book designer
With the concept of gift baskets, there occurred to me another fun kids-friendly business idea that can prove lucrative too. And that’s designing the decorating stickers or any stickers for that matter. Kids love stickers; unhesitant to disclose that I as an adult do too; and that allows for the room of converting the opportunity into tiny, small business.
Once your kids gain some training about designing stickers, you can help them level up the game by designing with them kids loving coloring books.
The coloring books have become a thing of yesterday you say?
Well, I darn’t mark it correct!
Because after all, still, there are parents who consider not handing all the tech gadgets to their kids at an early age because they believe that the different languages and linguistic experiences the kid gets exposed to on media might alter their phonetic perception. I side with these parents not merely because my psyche coincides with what they think but also due to the research that confirms it.
But, generally, the decision is yours and what I intend to convey is that designing coloring books, still can prove to be a lucrative small business idea. Especially when the craze of holding pens and pencils in their hands, for kids, is something serious!
10) Providing services of computer setup
When installing new software or application on computers or laptops, I’ve seen even the adults blindly press on the ‘Next’ and ‘Accept’ buttons just to escape the installation shield and have the software installed and running in an instant. Now this method, even though done blindly, used to work perfectly well in the past, however, today, advanced and tech-based application installation isn’t that easy and a few clicks on ‘Next’ might end up having a registry of your machine go invalidly onto the application managing servers, thereby limiting your access to the software.
As a geeky child, some kids have this habit of getting into the system to find out how something that causes an error on the system or maybe an installation that fails to execute the application could be resolved. While some kids get frustrated with consistent error messages, others try to delve into the topic by watching walkthrough videos on YouTube.
If your kid falls into the second category, no doubt your kid has a brilliant intelligence in exploring computer content, trying to install new games and software that boost PC performance for efficient game performance. Now, this interest of your kid can be turned into a business opportunity if your kid accepts to help fellow kids and colleagues with software installations that other kids find challenging.
Those were some amazing kids-friendly business ideas that might give you a hint or two about launching a small family business and urging your kids to become entrepreneurs so that they can accomplish success while following their ambitions.
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