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Money
Coins
Penny, penny,
Easily spent
Copper brown
and worth one cent.
Nickel, nickel,
Thick and fat,
You're worth five cents.
I know that.
Dime, dime,
Little and thin,
I remember,
You're worth ten.
Quarter, quarter
Big and bold,
You're worth twenty-five
I am told!
Half dollar, Half dollar
The biggest coin
You are worth fifty cents
And hard to find!
(verse contributed by Gavin)
*World Play Money
Print play money from around the world.
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Play money 1's and 2's
Play money 5's
Play money 10's
Print Bunny Money 1's and 5's
*History
The
Adventures of Penny
Take a tour with Penny to learn all about money. Where it came from
and how it is made.
Charting
History with Pennies Lesson (Grade 3-5)
Students collect pennies and sort them in ascending order of dates.
For the year on each penny, students research key events in history
and pick a single event, explaining its historical significance. Then
students use these events to create a timeline of U.S. history.
Reading
"The Hundred Penny Box" (Grade K-5)
Using a penny and its date, students are asked to remember and write
about an important event in their lives. Then students read "The
Hundred Penny Box" by Sharon Bell Mathis, the story of a
100-year-old woman who has collected a penny for each birthday she's
celebrated and who uses the collection to recount the stories of her life.
*Coins & Currency
The
Minting Process Revealed
Take a walk through the production steps that turn a sheet of metal
into a bag of coins.
Birth
of a Coin
Follow G.W. Quarter's wild adventure as he becomes "Minted".
To see how a coin is born, pick the animated version; or the on-line storybook.
Class Trip
Visit a Bank and find out what goes on there. Have the children
relate this to other money activities they have been doing with money.
Contributed By: Cemour
Art
Banks
Create a bank out of milk jugs making a slot for the money and
keeping the cap on so that the money can be easily accessed. Or make
a bank out of paper mache so that money can’t be easily accessed.
Contributed By: Cemour
Coin Rubbing
To familiarize children with the various types of coins, hot glue on
construction paper or tag board each coin showing the front and then
the back. Write the name of the coin and its value under it. Give
children crayons and blank paper to do money rubbings.
Contributed By: Cemour
Coin Patterns
Give each child a sheet of copy paper. Have the children make
rubbings using a pencil of a pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters.
When done with the rubbings have the children add up and write on
their paper how much is represented.
Make a design on the paper using the coins and rubbing over them.
Write on the paper how much money was used to make the patterns.
Create Money
Make fake money by cutting out dollar shape paper and let the
children decide what their money would look like. If you have a
digital camera you could scan children’s pictures to glue on so
they have personalized money. . Use colored clay to create coins.
Contributed By: Cemour
Papier-mâché piggy Bank
Language
By Judith Viorst
Ages 4 to 8
Alexander Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday Activities
Need: play money, variety of price marked items,
Although Alexander and his money are quickly parted, he comes to
realize all the things that can be done with a dollar.
After reading the story as a group list how Alexander's money was
spent and how much each choice cost him. The children then need to
calculate how much money Alexander spent and count out the amount he
spent in play money.
The children will need 2 pieces of paper. Take one paper and cut a
square. Glue down 3 sides of the square on the other paper to make a pocket.
Children then need to view the priced items in the room. On the paper
with the pocket the children make a list of how they would spend a
dollar, writing their choices on one side of the paper with what the
item cost. They do not have to spend the whole dollar.
After completing their list of items they would buy. The children
then count out enough paper money for each item on their list and
place the paper money in the pocket on their paper.
Have children trade papers with each other and count the money in
each other's pocket and add up the cost of items bought.
How
Are Coins Different (Grades K-2)
Students use sets of circulating coins to determine the unique
characteristics of each coin. They then create paragraphs and
illustrations to convey what makes each coin in our pockets special.
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