This is a good project for your kids (and you too) that I did when I was about 14 to make money:
Start a local coupon book. Go to different stores and have them give a discount on their product and pay you a set amount of money to appear in your coupon book that you then create and distribute to people. Charge $50 per ad per month. Get 20 ads in the book and you've made $1,000, which should be more than enough to cover costs (you can use your own computer to create the layout with Adobe Photoshop Elements and print at your local printing company) and pocket a good bit of change. Repeat every month.
Another one that's pretty good (I didn't try it, though) is to paint people's address numbers on the cement ridge between their sidewalk and the road in front of their houses (see local codes to make sure it's legal). All you need are a large number stencil, some paint, and a brush. Charge $5 or $10 per house.
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