An Indoor Play Activity
Here’s a way to give young kids a sense of the complexity of currency – and have plenty of fun, to boot.
Materials Required:
- Paper
- Crayons or markers
- Safety scissors.
Optional Materials:
- Glue or doublestick tape.
Instructions:
Here’s a way to give young kids a sense of the complexity of currency – and have plenty of fun, to boot.
Using safety scissors, your child can cut sheets of construction paper into pieces the size of a dollar bill.
Now find some stiffer cardboard or posterboard and trace small bottle caps – cut out the pieces for change.
Your child can now open his or her own treasury with crayons and markers.
Be sure to point out the details – people, buildings, and, of course, the pyramid-and-eye design on the one-dollar bills.
You might also provide non-toxic glue or double stick tape so your child can affix pictures cut out from magazines.
If your child has math skills, you can help him or her develop a currency system – one blue bill equals five reds, one red equals 10 gorilla head pennies, and so on.
You can also use the money with several other activities in the book. Just keep it in the house you don’t want a knock on the door from the Secret Service.
This Childrens Activity is sponsored by Zane Education – the home of online Visual Learning.
