Let’s Go Shopping- Money Shopping Game
We have been working on counting money for months at our house. It’s a skill that is necessary to learn and the earlier they learn it, the better. If you have trouble motivating your kiddos to learn money, give them some real-life reasons they need to learn it. Ice-Cream truck, snack bar at a sports game, a treat in the check out line…! This Let’s Go Shopping Money Shopping Game will help work on some of those important life skills.
The more that they can practice using real money in real life situations, the more motivation they will have to want to know how to count. It’s not enough to be able to match money amounts but they should be able to add amounts together, count up and to give back change.
How to Play The Shopping Game
Students will practice their money skills by earning money and then using it to purchase groceries.
This Game can be played alone or with multiple players.
- Step 1: Cut out the Spinner, use a paperclip and a pencil to use the spinning wheel.
- Step 2: Cut out the food choices.
- Step 3: Take Turns spinning the wheel to collect money to purchase food.
How to win: For Multi player game, the player who can collect the most amount of food wins.
For one player games, The player can challenge themselves by trying to get the most amount of food in 5 turns, 10 turns, etc.
Teaching Money Resources
While this game doesn’t require any extra resources to play, you may want to consider any of these to help further your student’s understanding of money and to help keep them engaged and excited about learning.
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