Learning about money is an important life skill, and these money activities will make it a fun one!
It’s hard to get young children (and even some older ones) to understand the concept of money. How much it is worth, what the different values are, even how those values can be exchanged for things is something many children struggle with. But these 25 Fun Money Activities for Kids will help make that struggle a little easier (and a lot more fun). From magic tricks to games to playing with slime, these activities will make learning about money something your kids are excited about. Have fun!
25 Fun Money Activities for Kids
Want a fun science experiment to try with your kids? Show them how to clean coins using two simple ingredients!
Your child is going to love creating a coin caterpillar and then figuring out how much he costs!
Via Miss Kindergarten
With this fun activity, your kids will use clothes pins to pick the right amount on each money card!
Via Life Over C’s
What does $0.89 cents look like? Your kids will have a blast figuring out exactly that with these money eggs.
Via Teaching with Nancy
Want to give your toddler or younger children a chance to play with money? Make this money slime!
Via Still Playing School
These coin rubbings are also a matching game! First, your child rubs the coins, then they match the picture to the coin.
Via Kids Playbox
How much was your ice cream cone? Stack the scoops to know for sure!
Via Step Into Second Grade
This fun money counting game is simple: roll the dice, match up the number to coins that add up to that amount.
Via The Education of Ours
Give your child play money that feels like the real thing with this diy money creation activity.
Via Let’s Do Something Crafty
Your child will be shocked when you show them that dollar bills can be picked up with magnets…and you’ll love watching them figure out why.
Via Kids Activities Blog
Each of these cups is worth the amount written on it. Your child puts in as much as they want, and then have to count out the change!
Via Education
Which of these cards matches up with the right amount of money on the envelope? Your kids are going to love figuring it out!
Via Adventures in Tutoring Special Education
Want a fun sensory money experience? Let your kids separate coins onto this money sorting mat.
Via Mrs. Hodge and her Kindergarten Kids
Q is for quarter, and this fun activity will give them the fun of sorting, and of figuring out which letter sounds go with which coin.
Via Buggy and Buddy
How many pennies can you put in your penny boat before it sinks? Your kids will love finding out the answer!
Via PBS
Looking for a playful way to learn about decimal places? Use cards to help your child learn about them!
Via Deceptively Educational
Here’s a fun game for your kids: these cards are each worth a different amount…let them sort out the correct change to ‘buy’ each snack!
Via Autism Tank
Want to teach your kids about money, but not hand them a real one hundred dollar bill? No problem! Print your own money with this fun printable!
Via Kids Activities Blog
And this awesome activity gives your child their own printed wallet that they can store their play money in and count it back out of.
Via Kids Activities Blog
Do you want to build a snowman? You’ll have to pay for it! How much will your snowman cost once you go to the snowman store?
Via Teaching Blog Roundup
This awesome experiment is a cross between science and art. Let your children make a picture with coins and see what happens when it’s left in the sun!
Via Creative Family Fun
How many different ways are there to make twenty-five cents? Your child can figure them out with this fun game!
Via Frugal Fun for Boys
Use this coin purse to teach your kiddo about word problems as well as counting out coins!
Via Education
Hocus pocus! Watch the bills change places with this awesome money magic trick!
Via Kids Activities Blog
Looking for a great way to teach your older children the real value of money? Give them a Work for Hire board and let them earn their wages!
