23 Nov

10 Creative Businesses Started By Kids

Children are some of the most creative entrepreneurs to ever launch businesses in our society. They are ambitious and driven and less likely than adults are to be deterred from their dreams. They have ideas that are fresh and new. They have imaginations that are overflowing. And they have a lack of experience that makes them unable to see the barriers that adults sometimes allow to cut their own goals off at the start. Channeled correctly and aided along appropriately, this energy that children have can lead to some of the most amazing businesses every created. Get inspired by what kids have done. Take a look at these ten creative businesses that were all started by children.

1.Alex’s Lemonade Stand. Would you believe that a four-year-old helped to start an organization that funds pediatric cancer research? Alex Scott was four years old in 2000 when she decided that she wanted to take the traditional idea of a neighborhood lemonade stand and use it to earn money to be donated to the hospital that was treating her for cancer. She was active with her lemonade stand for four years before she passed away from the disease. Her story inspired many people and the organization continues on despite her passing in the hopes that a cure for pediatric cancer will one day be found. If you’re saying to yourself that a lemonade stand doesn’t sound all of that creative then you don’t have the thinking that kids do. Your idea doesn’t have to be a brand new one for it to be creative. You don’t have to reinvent the wheel; you just have to add your own spokes.

2.Kids Saving the Rainforest. This business was launched by two girls who were living in Costa Rica when they got interested in saving the rainforest there. They started their business by painting rocks with decorative art and selling them at a table by the roadside. They donated the money that they earned to a cause that saves the area’s rainforests and endangered wildlife. They went on to grow their business into a store that sells their own art and the work of other artists with proceeds continuing to benefit the rainforest. Not only was their art-on-rocks a creative idea but they managed to sustain a creative partnership which is tough for people in business of any age to do successfully.

3.Streaming Futures. We often hear about ingenious teens who launch web businesses that earn them a lot of money before they even get out of high school. The founder of Streaming Futures, Joel Holland, could have been such a teen but he was more interested in serving others than making a mint for himself. At 15 he launched this free video-based website which is designed to assist other teens in figuring out what jobs they would like to do in their lives. Joel travels around the world interviewing people about their careers and posts the videos for teens to watch so that they can get important insight into what it’s like to do different types of jobs.

4.Qwesty. When Lauren was six years old she was a very inquisitive child. In fact, she was inquisitive that she would drive her parents nuts by asking them too many questions when they were busy with other things. That’s how she came up with the idea of Qwesty, a plush stuffed question mark that kids can raise to let their parents know that they would like to ask a question. Parents can use the toy to teach kids to be quiet during certain times (like when they’re on the phone) without making the kids feel ignored. Genius idea from a genius kid and it’s gone on to be quite a successful little business for her and her family.

5.Don’t Fret Note Map for Guitar. Nicholas Ravagni was barely out of kindergarten when he came up with a brilliant idea to help kids learn where to put their fingers on the fret board when playing guitar. He essentially took plastic wrap and a marker, wrapped it around the guitar and put finger position dots on it to make it easier to remember where to put the fingers when learning to play. His dad helped him turn this into an actually product that was marketed and sold well to a number of different music stores. His creative act helped a lot of other kids learn how to be creative more easily. He went on to create and sell other products as he got older.

6.Leanna’s Inc. Leanna Archer loved getting compliments on her hair when she was a little girl. She was still young when she realized that the homemade pomade that her grandma created to put in her hair was a big factor in why she received those compliments. She was just nine years old when she decided to launch a business selling this product. She’s now the 13-year-old entrepreneur of a company that sells not only hair products but various other beauty products as well. Most teens are just starting to experiment with beauty supplies; Leanna is selling them!

7.CGKidz. Cynergreen is an eco-friendly company that creates green stainless steel water bottles designed to replace the plastic water bottles that are causing so much damage to the earth. The company is run by two adults but the design of the water bottles is the work of their twelve year old daughter Riley Hoffer. This creative young girl is also the one who designs and runs the company’s kid-based website which provides eco-information to children ages 5-14 in an interactive and fun format that they can understand.

8.McDonald’s Memorabilia Collector. When Luke Underwood was seven years old his father bought him a collection of McDonald’s memorabilia for £250. He hung on to the collection for four years, keeping it in great shape. At the age of eleven he turned around and sold the collection at an auction for a whopping £8130. It’s not easy for kids to be so good with their toys that they actually increase in value. Seems like a budding resale entrepreneur is on the rise here!

9.Alchemist Empire Inc. This business has created a game called Elementeo which provides youngsters with a fun way to learn science. The game is a card-based fantasy combat game that teaches you chemistry while you play it. What a cool creative idea for kids who have a tough time learning in a traditional setting. And the business was created by a kid named Anshul Shamar who is only 14 but the CEO of the company all the same.

10.Cody’s Individual Comfort Kits. Cody Clark was twelve years old when he had t go to the emergency room. He quickly realized what most of us already know; hospitals are not comfortable places to be. Instead of griping about it, though, Code decided to do something about it. He started created individual comfort kids to give to children who have to go to the hospital. These kids include things like blankets, books and rattles that are designed to make kids feel a bit safer and more comfortable during their hospital stay. Cody has used fundraising to raise the money to create approximately 200 comfort kits. Cody has now gone on to also create grandma and grandpa kits for elderly people in the same position.

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