Nursery World - Pounds & pence

Develop children's awareness of money and its role in everyone's lives using fun activities such as these suggested by Judith Stevens Many children become familiar with shopping from an early age, but transactions often appear to take place by 'magic' as parents hand a small plastic card to the cashier and their purchases disappear into carrier bags.

Many children become familiar with shopping from an early age, but transactions often appear to take place by 'magic' as parents hand a small plastic card to the cashier and their purchases disappear into carrier bags.

It is important for children to develop an awareness of money and the vital role it plays in everyone's lives, and to do so they need first-hand, practical experience with real coins.

Adult-led activities

For sale

As a starting point for this project, read to the children The Great Pet Sale by Mick Inkpen. It's an amusing story guaranteed to stimulate children's curiosity about money. In the story, everything is a bargain: from the tiny terrapins at 2p each to a great big dragon for 25p. What's more, the one whiskered rat (only 1p) keeps popping up everywhere.

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