Begin to
Save for Your Summer Language Village Program!
The sooner you start the more you can save, so
start today!
Do one or do all. How many can you do?
- Have a juice/soda
stand
- Hold a bake sale
- Organize a garage
sale
- Deliver the
newspaper
- Host a car wash
- Arrange a craft
sale- sell painted lady bug rocks, etc.
- Host an art auction
- Create holiday
decorations
- Have a magic show,
talent show, concert or play
- Knit or crochet
scarves
- Sell car antenna
decorations
- Make greeting cards
- Put together
seasonal gift/food baskets (i.e., sweetheart baskets)
- Wrap presents at
the mall (ex: bookstores)
- Take pictures with
Santa Claus/Easter Bunny
- Take pet pictures
- Advertise pet
sitting/walking
-
Host a cultural meal/dessert
- Organize a lock-in
for youth
- Do a “parents’
night out” (Children arrive in their PJs at 6 p.m. and the parents pick them
up at 9 or 10 p.m.)
- Hold a fashion show
- Start a “pink
flamingo fundraiser” (Purchase 10 flamingos and put them in a yard for 7
days or until they pay to have them put in someone else’s yard )
- Babysit
- Form a babysitting
co-op (Parents call and you set up the babysitter for them from a list of
friends)
- If you are too
young to babysit, “parent sit” (still help out with the children while the
parent is home by feeding, playing with, and watching the children)
- Teach computer
skills/musical instrument/singing/golf/exercise/poetry/sewing/dance/baking
classes
- Tutor in your
favorite subject
- Paint indoors or
out
- Rake leaves
- Mow lawns
- Garden—weed/prune
- Shovel snow
- Shop for and/or
carry in groceries
- Deliver homemade
meals
- Run errands
- Work during school
breaks
- See if a family
member will match what you save
- Keep a change jar
and empty your pockets into it all year long
-
Save holiday and birthday money