Piggy Bank Bonanza

My boys are fascinated with their piggy banks lately. I took advantage of this opportunity to get in a little natural learning.

Here are some of our discussions and activities:

•who has more money? less money? how do you know for sure?

•what is the name of this coin? what color is it? how much is it worth?

•how many __ do you have? do you have more __ or __? how do you know? prove it to me? which coin do you have the least amount of? are any of the coins "equal"?

•what do you notice about the coins?

•how are all the quarters the same? different? how are all the nickels the same? different?

•what is similar between a penny and a dime?

•sort by color, size, back design, etc.

•coin patterns

•coin rubbings

•coin book with a rubbing of the front and back of each coin, coin name labeled and the amount written in cent notation.

If you have any additional coin activities that you would like to share, please leave a comment and I will add them to the post. Have fun exploring money with you little ones.

TeachMama has made some additions to my post that you will truly love.

Counting Coins

Spend, Save, Give.

Thank you Amy for such wonderful kid friendly ideas. I will be heading out to IKEA soon for some jars ($1.99 each) of my own.

Money Sort

T Man and Little J love to play with coins. One day I noticed JJ placing the coins in piles. Being a teacher, I decide it was the perfect opportunity for a little learning.



I quickly took out 4 recycled butter containers and wrote the name and value of the coin on the lid.



Then, we worked as a team to sort the coins into the correct piles.



Next, we counted some of the coins and looked at features on each coin.

Finally, we placed the coins into the appropriate containers.

Later in the day T Man decide to sort the coins even further. He looked at the coins and started sorting them by the year. He decide that was too many piles and sorted them by decades instead. he also sorted the coins by what was on the backs of the coin. He had noticed that quarters had tons of different things on the back of them.

All in all this was a really fun activity that they continue to do today.