money-making projects for children

Offers fifty ideas on ways for children to earn money, including baking, caring for children and/or pets, washing cars, caddying, collecting recyclables, and shoveling snow. Each entry gives information on equipment, preparation, and how to do the job.

Explains what fund-raising is and why it is done, looks at fund-raising methods, discusses charities, volunteers, the role of the media, and local, national, and international fund-raising, and offers suggestions on how kids can raise funds for their schools. Includes examples from real life, fact boxes, and activities.

Ziggy, Jerome, Rico, and Rashawn look forward to using the two hundred dollars they are sure they will win in the school talent show to fix up their clubhouse--until they meet their biggest competition: a very talented little girl who needs the money more than they do.

Walter Warthog works hard to earn money so he can buy the wonderful white wagon in the hardware store.

Twelve-year-old Greg, who has always been good at moneymaking projects, is surprised to find himself teaming up with his lifelong rival, Maura, to create a series of comic books to sell at school.

Calvin tries to earn money to buy Stella, the babysitter, a present for her sixteenth birthday because he feels guilty for taking advantage of her allergy to cats.

Summer vacation in their small Maine town does not look too promising until twelve-year-old Gina and four of her friends make a pact to become millionaires before school starts in September.

TJ worries that he has taken on more than he can handle when he agrees to turn his home into a haunted house to raise money for a school trip.

At least forty concrete, creative suggestions for ways to make money, with sample flyers for advertising oneself and information on setting fees, keeping records, and handling profits.

Eleven-year-old Matthew, trying desperately to earn enough to buy a coveted computer program, learns the importance of money and eventually starts his own business.