A 9-year-old boy in Loomis grew a small school gardening project into a vegetable-selling business, harvesting and selling produce at the local farmers market instead of spending time on screens.

An 11-year-old girl ran a pop-up drive-thru selling home-cooked soul food like fried chicken and mac and cheese, drawing dozens of customers for a second event after a successful first one.

An 8-year-old boy sold vegetables from his own garden along with lemonade and water at local farmers markets, raising over $200 for a fund helping flood victims in a nearby town.

Reed Gjonnes, a 13-year-old girl from Salem, Oregon, spent three consecutive years hiking the Pacific Crest, Appalachian, and Continental Divide trails with her father, covering nearly 8,000 miles and becoming the youngest known person to complete hiking's Triple Crown.

Five-year-old Harvey Sutton hiked the entire 2,193-mile Appalachian Trail northbound with his parents over 209 days, becoming the youngest person to complete the trail in that direction.

Starting when she was 14 and continuing over seven summers, Caroline hiked the full length of the Pacific Crest Trail with her father in sections, growing from a young teen following his lead into a strong, independent hiker who eventually led the way herself.

A 13-year-old boy spent five months designing and building his own wooden sailboat using stitch-and-glue construction, fiberglass, and gorilla glue, then sailed it for the first time during his local yacht club's season-opening event.

An 11-year-old boy in Milford, Michigan taught himself woodworking during the pandemic, using salvaged pallet wood to build a side table—including a working drawer—for his grandmother.

A 12-year-old boy in Hamburg, New York taught himself woodworking using his dad's tools and started building and selling birdhouses, delivering them by bike and taking orders through a family Facebook post.

A 12-year-old 4-H member from Clinton County, Illinois turned a woodworking hobby into a small business making custom cutting boards and trivets, after starting with simpler shop projects a few years earlier.

A boy taught himself to repair old, junked bicycles and began fixing them up to give away, eventually providing bikes to an entire boys' home and dozens of other kids in need.

An 8-year-old girl in Manville, New Jersey noticed trash and debris in her favorite local park and asked her dad to help her clean it up, filling two bags of litter on their first outing.

A 13-year-old girl set up her lemonade stand at two locations for 12 hours to raise money for a local children's advocacy center, aiming to collect $1,000.

Ten-year-old McKel Wheeler and her seven-year-old brother Bentlee ran a lemonade stand all summer to raise money for a sheriff's deputy's family whose home burned down, after the deputy had once helped them through being bullied.

A 12-year-old girl in Longview set up her annual charity lemonade stand outside a local Walmart for the fifth year running, with all proceeds this year going to a children's advocacy center.

Six-year-old Izzie Levy has helped her mom cook family meals since she was a baby, and now enjoys picking ingredients at the grocery store and making dishes like chicken noodle soup and turkey meatballs.

A 10-year-old boy who makes cooking videos shared his plans to cook his father a full day of Father's Day meals, including a blueberry crumble breakfast, skillet meatballs with garlic bread for dinner, and a surprise note tucked under a cake.

During a museum-run 'Little Green Thumbs' program, 9-year-old Tian and his mom were given a plot in a historic garden to plant flowers together over a two-hour session.

Chef David Nayfeld describes years of cooking with his young daughter Helena, teaching her to stir, crack eggs, grate cheese and eventually help make dishes like meatballs and chocolate cake as outlined in his new cookbook.

Two sisters, Kylie (6) and Fiona (8), help gather eggs each day from the chicken coop their family keeps in a St. Louis suburb, part of a wider trend of city families raising backyard hens.

A 9-year-old boy rode his bike across the country with his father, covering about 3,300 miles over 18 weeks to reach the Statue of Liberty.

An 8-year-old boy in Chicago shoveled the snow off his family's front steps before his dad, a UPS driver, got home from work, wanting to save him the trouble after a long day.

A retired home economics teacher in Tucumcari runs small sewing classes where kids like ten-year-old Patrick Weigel learn to cut fabric, use a sewing machine, and finish projects like quilts on their own.

An 11-year-old girl has spent two years delivering a monthly neighborhood newspaper in East Falls, enlisting her younger brother to help her drop papers at porches and doorsteps.

A mother took her 7-year-old daughter, who had been asking for years, on their first family camping trip to a California state beach, pitching a tent, cooking over a fire, and exploring the shoreline together.

In a Dorchester neighborhood tradition going back three decades, two siblings, Cam and Mia, now deliver a weekly community newspaper to ten customers, picking up their papers each week from a longtime organizer's porch.

Cub Scouts in a Skowhegan pack built birdhouse kits during a pack meeting, learning basic woodworking skills and tool safety along the way.

A 6-year-old boy went on his family's first camping trip to Fort Richardson State Park, where he fished, explored a creek for hours, hiked a wilderness trail, watched deer up close, and stargazed with his parents.

A seven-year-old boy from Tinley Park organized a food drive and free grocery giveaway with his cousins to mark his eighth birthday, aiming to help more than 150 families in the Englewood neighborhood.

A mother describes how her family went from a disastrous first camping trip with her two young kids to years of regular camping outings, and shares practical advice for taking children camping safely and comfortably.

A 14-year-old boy in Blasdell, New York used his snowblower to clear driveways for older neighbors after a massive snowstorm dumped several feet of snow on the town.

Ten-year-old Millie built her own gingerbread house for the first time, a green cabin with a red door, a snowman, and a lit-up Christmas tree, and entered it in her city's gingerbread contest, taking second place.

A 9-year-old boy used hundreds of maple wood planks to build a freestanding 3-foot-tall Easter bunny in his living room, working without any plan for about two hours.

An 8-year-old boy in Somerville began building a tiny village of elf houses, complete with a library, hospital, and skating rink, in an abandoned gas station lot, and neighbors have since joined in adding to it.

An 8-year-old boy who taught himself to cook simple meals like breakfast burritos and mac and cheese was chosen out of 200 kids to join the cast of a PBS children's cooking show.

Braxton raises a flock of laying hens and runs the egg stand he sells them from, doing the feeding, watering and mucking out every day before anyone buys a carton.

Liam thru-hiked the entire Appalachian Trail and finished it at ten years old, with his father walking the route alongside him.

Ben took on a six-year challenge from his dad to build his first car, spending Tuesday night after Tuesday night in the garage learning to do the work himself.

Emmett shoveled dozens of his neighbors driveways through a run of snow days, heading back out again as fast as the snow refilled them.

Nine-year-old Levi Moss of Wisconsin pedaled roughly 1,400 miles over nearly six weeks from New York City to Madison, riding through Amish country in Pennsylvania and along Lake Michigan, while cousins and his younger sister joined for stretches but only he rode the entire route start to finish.