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How to Make a Kids Ticket Booth

If your kids want to sell something or make a show, there's nothing like a real ticket booth. Kids can assemble it themselves, using their own creative genius, or you can lend them a hand. Once the children are in business selling tickets or products, be ready with your pennies, nickels, dimes or quarters. This is also a good practice for young ones as they learn to count money and make change. Here's a way to get little entrepreneurs started.

Things You'll Need

Sturdy, medium to large cardboard booth (fruit boxes are good as you don't need a lid)
Two long sticks or bamboo poles (used to support vines or as trellises, found in gardening stores)
Two or more sheets of colored construction paper
Markers
Duct tape
Money jar

Instructions

- 1
  Find a strong box that, tipped on its end, is about waist-high for the child. Lift it on end so that you have a vertical rectangle.
- 2
  Duct tape one bamboo pole or stick on each long side of the box so that the ends are poking up.
- 3
  Use markers to make two signs. Kids can write things like "Ticket Booth" and describe the performance or the product they are selling. Younger kids can draw what they are trying to describe. Make sure they illustrate (through pictures of coins) or simply write the cost (50 cents or whatever they choose).
- 4
  Duct tape one sign between the tops of the poles like a banner, supported between two sticks. Duct tape the other sign to the front of the vertical, rectangular box.
- 5
  Let the kids sit or stand behind the box or booth and act professional with a jar for coins. If they are selling things, they can place them in a container behind the booth. Buyer beware.

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