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DD aged 5 wants to earn money - any ideas?

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extrastrongnosugar · 15/09/2018 06:57

Hello mums and dads, my very entrepreneurial almost 6 year old little one really really wants to have her own money for a long while already and always pesters us with ideas how to earn it: sell toys on a flea market, make a lemonade stand....all great ideas but they involve too much prep on my part I just can't set this up all the time. For a while I gave her a little it if she helped me make a simple dinner but now that school starts it won't work.
I don't want to give her money for doing chores because I want her to do them anyway as being part of the family.

Does anyone have some ideas how she could earn her alowance in a positive way? I like it that she's not just asking for money but trying to earn it...

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imsorryiasked · 15/09/2018 07:00

Can she make some craft items to sell? Bead string jewellery maybe. Or glitter Xmas baubles?

areyoubeingserviced · 15/09/2018 07:03

Can you give her some chores to do around the house?

I love to hear stories about little entrepreneurs

YourMilkshakeIsBetterThanMine · 15/09/2018 07:09

My eldest (6) just helps out around the house. Just small things at the moment like helping put washing away, setting the table, dusting keeping her room tidy. She also gets pocket money. The two aren't linked in our house though, it's not a case of do the chores or no pocket money. She helps around the house as she's a member of the household. She gets pocket money because she can't earn her own and I want her to make choices, budget etc.

I can't think of anything I'd buy from a 6yo tbh but happy to get ideas. My friend's son sold homemade Christmas cards one year but he was 9 and scarily talented.

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sashh · 15/09/2018 07:43

Have a look on the Baker Ross site, they do things for crafts eg blank plastic badges you put your own pattern in, blank calendars, snow globes you put your own picture in, key ring kits, you get the idea

She'll have to spend some money to get supplies, or owe you some money until she sells.

www.bakerross.co.uk/arts-and-crafts/craft-activities

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