Great idea for helping kids earn money!
August 12, 2010 by Missy
HowDoesShe help her kids earn money?
My cute neighbors came up with the BEST idea!
Princess Acadamy!
These girls needed money for camp so they hosted a week long princess acadamy.
I am told it took a lot of hours planning, preparing and following through in order to pull it off which in my book is far better than any money they earned. What a great lesson!
It started with an invitation to all the eligible (specified age group) girls in the neighborhood outlining the activities, dates and times in a ROYAL manner.
“Here ye, here ye!
All princesses across the land are cordially invited to attend the Princess Academy at the palace for the week of …”
They delivered these invitaions all dressed up as princesses to all the girls. What an exciting day for my daughter when a REAL princess came to her door to invite her to a party! This was just the beginning to a well thought out and planned week!
Here are some of the other fun ideas they came up with…
Lots of flowers everywhere.
Princess music playing.
paper pom poms hanging from the trees.
The girls were to dress up as princesses the first day of acadamy.
When they arrived they got to have their make up,
hair,
and nails all done by the hosting princesses!
Then they took pictures of all the BEAUTIFUL PRINCESSES all decked out!
Another day they did crafts. They made these cute little bags and headbands.
One day they baked and decorated cupcakes and made playdough. The girls made an apron for each of the girls as you can see in this picture.
They made other crafts as well that I didn’t get pictures of , one of which they found on HowDoesShe! Remember the paper flowers that turn to real flowers? They made those and put them in little clay pots with dirt – so fun!
On the last day, they all graduated from Princess Acadamy and had a family swim party.
This was the highlight of my daughter’s summer!
Now that it is over, when she sees any of her “Princess Teachers” you would think she had seen Hannah Montana – she freaks out with excitement. It is GREAT – and I couldn’t ask for better role models! Thanks girls! Sign me up for next summer!
On our way home from the swim party, my son started thinking about how he wanted to earn money doing this but making it army boot camp for the boys. I’ll keep you posted.
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What a wonderful party! I want to go to Princess Academy!
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Sounds awesome! I’d love to know how much they charged for the Academy.
$20.00 for each kid. I would’ve paid more – it was so worth it!
What a genius idea those teen girls had to raise a little money! And in the process, they developed their creative juices, made lots of friends and stayed out of the mall! AND that’s not even mentioning what they did for those little princesses! Brilliant! (Your pics are FABULOUS!)
It’s a good thing I didn’t know about this ‘Princess Academy’ until after the fact. I would have signed myself up!
I could use a little pampering… 
This was so fun!!! I am glad I have reference to this so when my ‘princess’ is old enough she can start her own princess academy to raise money for her camping adventures! She had a blast at this academy BTW!
So cute…. army boot camp, thats a good idea too. Cant wait to see how that turns out.
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That is by far the coolest thing I have ever heard of. What a great idea! And so fun.
LOVE this!
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What a fun idea and beautiful pictures!
Wow, how could they possibly make money charging only $20 per princess?
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What a fabulous idea! I would’ve LOVED to do this when I was a teen. I’m so impressed with these teens & a great thing for the little girls!
This is a fabulous idea…I think I will suggest this to my daughters to organize next summer. I love the photos and what adorable neighbor girls you have to think up such a fun camp!
wow, this is so cute! I wish we had kids like this in our neighbourhood!!
So nice!!! I’m practically speachless!
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What a cute fun idea!! I bet everyone had a BLAST!!
Can’t wait to hear about a boy’s money-making idea!
So cute!
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What a fabulous idea!!! And, so much fun- I want to go to princess academy!
Wow! What an amazing idea. How clever those girls are. *I* want to go to princess camp.
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