Childcare Business Ideas
Because there are children in the country there will be opportunities for childcare businesses. Are you good with kids? Do you have experience with children and/or child education certification? Here are 10 childcare business ideas for you to try out:
31. Babysitting
Some parents look for someone to look after their children, no matter what age.
How to start this business idea
Parents prefer leaving their children with someone who has previous experience and some form of formal education in childcare, whether child psychology or education. You can offer to babysit for friends and family until you have enough references to start looking outside your network.
How to keep this business idea successful
Keep taking on babysitting jobs caring for children of different ages to expand your client pool. You can also continue your childcare education to add a level of knowledgeability to your service.
32. Rent Baby Stuff
Peer-to-peer lending continues to grow into every industry. Why not create a platform that rents out baby essentials to parents?
How to start this business idea
You’ll need to buy baby essentials yourself and start renting them out to parents. This helps parents avoid big purchases for items they’ll only use for short periods of time.
How to keep this business idea successful
Once your platform is up and running you can expand your customer base to include travelling parents who need access to car seats, cribs and strollers.
33. Night Nanny
A night nanny is an overnight nanny that specialises in new born babies. They can also help families with multiple small children. This concept has grown in popularity for dual-income parents who can’t afford those 2am interruptions.
How to start this business idea
You will need a lot of experience with new born babies and very young babies to gain the trust of new mothers and to be able to offer them advice.
How to keep this business idea successful
The more you know and can deal with the more you can charge for your service. You can also potentially start training others and create a team of night nannies.
34. Children’s Party Service
Thousands of children have birthdays, graduations or hold events on a daily basis. Why not offer a service that helps parents with a one-stop shopping experience for all types of children’s parties?
How to start this business idea
You can circulate fun and colourful brochures, that describe what you do, to day-care centres, nursery schools, primary schools and kids after school activities. Create a child party service that includes locations, themes, party favours, activities, food, and entertainment.
How to keep this business idea successful
You can expand your customer base by targeting the elderly groups as grandparents love to spoil their grandchildren. You’ll also reach a large customer base if you can offer fun, educational activities to the children.
35. Start a Creche
You can start a creche or nursery school to take care of children while their parents work. You can offer as many or few days a week, for as many or few hours a day suitable for you and your clients.
How to start this business idea
You’ll need extensive experience caring for children of various ages before you open a creche. Once you have the experience you can offer the services at home and gradually expand your operation as you make money.
How to keep this business idea successful
Once you’ve reached a certain size you can start employing teachers and increase the ages of the children you cater for and expand your offering to include older children.
36. Baby Swimming Services
You can offer a service to actively reduce the risk of drowning accidents for toddlers through classes that teach learners to roll over onto their backs and float.
How to start this business idea
This is the right business idea for you if you have experience teaching small children to swim. You’ll need a high level of expertise and experience for parents to trust you to teach their toddlers what to do should they fall into a pool.
How to keep this business idea successful
You can expand this operation into a full swimming academy once you’ve made enough money to expand.
37. Kids’ Taxi Service
Children have so many after school activities and appointments that many parents don’t have time to pick them up and drop them off. This is where you come in.
How to start this business idea
You can chauffeur children around to their various after school activities, if you plan it right you could be paid to transfer a minibus full of children to the same place.
How to keep this business idea successful
You can plan your routes to determine the fastest and shortest way to get everyone to their destination on time. Once your minibus is making money you could consider starting a fleet to make more money and cover more of the city.
38. New Parents School
There are thousands of first-time parents who could use some support and guidance on how to be a new parent.
How to start this business idea
You’ll need a nursing or child care background to offer helpful parenting methods and tips on practical child care. You can offer this as an independent consultancy or partner with other new born related businesses.
How to keep this business idea successful
Once you’re established you can work in conjunction with hospitals and social service programmes to expand your market and reach more new parents.
39. Day Care Centre
Child day care is a growing industry as many households require two full-time incomes to make ends meet.
How to start this business idea
Your day care centre can start out at home, until you can move to a bigger space. Ensure you have some kind of child education qualification to make you more trustworthy and knowledgeable to parents.
How to keep this business idea successful
Once you open, you’ll find your greatest challenge will be turning parents away because you’ve reached your limit. This can allow for steady growth if you hire staff, find a bigger location and steadily take in more children.
40. Au Pair
Some parents need a more hands-on service when it comes to child care. Au pairs need to pick-up children from school, take them to after school activities, take them home, help them with homework until the parents come home.
How to start this business idea
You’ll need extensive experience looking after children of different ages. You can advertise in school newsletters to attract new customers.
How to keep this business idea successful
Once you’ve established a reputation you can start your own agency and gather experienced and reliable au pairs to match with parents looking for the service.