Easy and Small Business Ideas For Tweens and Teens

Hey, middle schooler and high schoolers! Are you looking forward to creating your own startup? If so, we have you covered, as this post is about easy and small business ideas for kids and teens.

We know how important it’s to pay your regular bills, meet daily expenses, and get admission into your dream university. Basically we all could do with extra pocket money.

In this age of the internet, resources to learn things are just a click away. If you are creative, can manage finances and have the courage to overcome challenges then what are you waiting for? It’s entrepreneurship that is to wait not you! Here is how you can start your business by creating products or offering services to others.

Product Based Ideas:

Since our focus is easy ideas for creating a business, the products you create should be easy to make too. Think about what you like using and playing, think if you can make something better based on what you own right now.

DIY Items

One of the product ideas is to make your own. So think about what can you DIY? Some common products young entrepreneurs like are soaps, candles, bath bombs or lotion. To learn how to make these crafts, you have many websites to go and refer. The following is a list of website you can take a look and learn how to DIY:

• DIY & Craft

• DIY Projects

• DIY Joy

• Blue Print

• Snap Guide

Self Baked Sweets

Another idea you can try if you like cooking or baking is to sell sweets or baked goods. Especially if you have parents who can guide you through the process, you should definitely try this idea. Baked good or self made food and beverages can go bad easily, so be sure to know how many people you are serving ahead of time can avoid potential waste. You can easily find many food and recipe website online, so here I want to give you three examples of young chef who started their cooking or baking business:

• Ry’s Ruffery

• Goddness Food Factory

• Order Up with Logan

Custom Designed T Shirt

Another idea is that you can create Custom T-shirt designs and sell them. T-shirts are one of the printable products you can make easily with local print shops. The only thing is you have to learn how to make Vector images for high quality printing. So, learn about Adobe Illustrator and advance your design skills to make cool logos or images for your T-shirt. Once you know how to design images or words, the production part is simply find the best print shop who can offer the best price and quality for your T-shirt print.

Toys and Games

Do you like toys or games? What is your favorite? Can you come up with ideas to create your own toys that’s easy to make? For example, Lyla Black created her own Lyla Tov Monsters toy for kids. Can you also make your own board games or lego toys based on your own interests? You can start by making and selling to local kids, but with the help from parents, maybe you can make it from factories and send toys to all over the world. Just remember, because you are designing and making products for kids, there might be a lot of regulations or policies your parents need to watch out for as your business grows.

Graphic Novel

If you are really good at writing or drawing, you can try creating graphic novels and sell in schools. Many young creators are talented in some ways, writing can definitely create a fortune for you. It does take time and effort if you have to complete a whole book. But if you simply layout the ideas on paper, and have structures that guide you through each chapter, you simply need to stick to your goal everyday. With the persistent efforts, your book will come out within months. If you get good feedback from friends and peers, consider contact publishers or even self-publish it online.

Service Based ideas:

Offering services means you are trading your time and expertise for money. You don’t have to worry about making a physical product, thus you have no concern on shipping, storage space and product returns. Service can help you start with a $0 budget and earn money based on what you are really good at. Here are some example service based ideas you can try.

Social Media Consultant

Teens of this age have an extra edge even over some adults, because you are familiar with the World Wide Web and it makes things like blogging, social networking, learning and understanding much easier.

There are many educational websites that are teaching how to use social networking as a promotional tool. Udemy is one such online platform to learn. Find how to apply this knowledge, offer your services for creating, managing or maintaining social media sites and get paid.

Make money freelancing

Do you have any skill you are expert at? It could be something like editing videos, Photoshop or essay writing? If yes, there are many freelancing platforms available, where you can create your profile, and start selling your services. Some of the prominent platforms include Fiverr, Upwork and Guru.

Babysitting

Babysitters are paid well and the biggest advantage of being a babysitter is you don’t have to pay any start-up cost. You just have to be capable enough to convince some local parents to hire you. CRR-certified babysitters are in high demand. They train diapering, feeding techniques, interview tips and first aid basics to their trainees. Check out Care.com or Sittercity.com, put up a profile and find your first babysitting job.

Tutoring

Parents are always concerned about their children's studies and want their kids to get tutored. Here comes your time to take advantage of your know-how skill. Use it for helping others learn.

You can set your own hours with the client. Any job where you get handsome money plus you schedule it by yourself is a win-win for you.

Errand-runner

Do you love helping others? Great! Help others and also make money. Be an errand-runner. The run errand jobs may include getting groceries, going to the bank and getting posts from the post office. Not so tough, eh?

You are in charge and have the freedom to adjust your timings. Supplies you may need are only a car and a cell phone. If you are 18 then you really are a pro for this job.

Finding the right part-time job is a good idea but if even after a lot of trials you don’t succeed in getting a job then don’t get demotivated just make one for yourself. Entrepreneurship is the solution to the problem of unemployment in teens.

Teens! You will learn to be responsible, building self-esteem, professionalism and much more by entering a real-life business. All you have to do is when going gets hard, get going.