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25 Fun Money Activities for Kids

April 6, 2022 Mary Malcolm

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. That is why money activities for kids will save your day!

These 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 dime, nickel, dollar, and others something your kids are excited about. Have fun!

Learning about money is an important life skill, and these money activities will make it a fun one!

Creative and Fun Money Activities for Kids

1. count and clean your coins, kiddos.

Want a fun science experiment to try with your kids? Help them count their different coins from their cute pig bank and teach them how to clean coins using two simple ingredients with this brainy idea from Kids Activities Blog! Oh how we love piggy banks!

2. Create a Coin Caterpillar and Its Cost

Here’s a fun way to do math games. Your child is going to love creating a coin caterpillar and then figuring out how much he costs! This idea from Miss Kindergarten is so fab!

3. Printable Money Flashcards

With this fun activity by Life Over C’s, your kids will use clothespins to pick the right amount on each money card ! Wonderful free resources are available to teach kids about pretend money!

4. Money Eggs Game

Want a cute and fun coins money game? What do $0.89 cents look like? Your kids will have a blast figuring out exactly that with these money eggs game by Teaching with Nancy!

5. Make a Cool Money Slime

Want to give your toddler or younger children a chance to play with money? Make this money slime idea by Still Playing School! You’ll both have a fantastic fun time doing this one.

6. Fun Coin Matching Game

Here’s a cool coin recognition lesson you can do with a 2nd grade kiddo. These coin rubbings are also a matching game! In this game idea by Kids Playbox, your child rubs the coins, then they match the picture to the coin! How fun!

7. Ice Cream Cost Stacking Activity

How much was your ice cream cone? Your little one can stack the scoops in this activity from Step Into Second Grade to know! That’s a fun way to learn about the value of coins!

8. Roll the Dice and Match it with Coins

Rolling the dice isn’t just for board games. This fun money counting game from The Education of Ours is simple: roll the dice, match up the number to coins that add up to that amount. Your little one will surely have fun!

9. DIY Play Money and Cash Register

Give your child play money that feels like the real thing with this DIY money creation activity from Let’s Do Something Crafty. They’ll love their own cash register which you can get from a grocery store, or you can just make one yourself!

10. Pick Up Dollars with Magnet Activity

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! This is a very fun activity by Kids Activities Blog!

11. Coins and Cups Activity

In this activity by Education, each of these cups is worth the amount that is written on it. Your child puts in as much as they want, and then has to count out the change !

12. Match the Money with the Envelope

Which of these cards match up with the right amount of money on the envelope ? Your kids are going to love figuring it out! I really love these money worksheets you can print for free.

13. Money Sorting Activity

Want a fun sensory money experience for your preschooler? Let your kids separate coins onto this money sorting mat from Mrs. Hodge and her Kindergarten Kids! Search for more learning resources for your kids!

14. Sorting Coins and Matching Letter Sounds

Q is for a quarter! This fun money lesson activity by Buggy and Buddy will give your kiddo the fun of sorting coins! Want more? They will love figuring out which letter sounds go with which coin!

15. Make the Penny Boat Float

How many pennies can your little one put in your penny boat before it sinks? Your kids will love finding out the answer in this learning activity by PBS!

16. Learn Decimal Places with Money and Cards

Are you looking for a playful way your preschooler can learn about decimal places ? Use cards to help your child learn about them in this learning activity by Deceptively Educational!

17. Play “Buy to the Store” Game

Here’s a fun game from Autism Tank for your kids: these cards are each worth a different amount. Let them sort out the correct change to ‘buy’ each snack !

18. Fun and Free Printable Play Money

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 from Kids Activities Blog!

19. Print Your Kid’s First Wallet

This awesome activity from Kids Activities Blog gives your child their own printed wallet that they can store their play money in! They can also count what’s left in there!

20. Buy the Materials You Need for a Snowman

Do your kids want to build a snowman? They’ll have to pay for it in this fun money activity by Teaching Blog Roundup! How much will your snowman cost once you go to the snowman store (unavailable)?

21. Make a Picture Using Coins

This awesome experiment by Creative Family Fun 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!

22. Different Ways to Make 25 Cents

How many different ways are there to make twenty-five cents ? Your child can figure them out with this fun game from Frugal Fun For Boys!

23. “How Much is in Your Wallet?” Quiz

Use this coin purse to teach your kiddo about word problems as well as counting out coins! Your kid’s critical thinking and Math abilities will be tapped with this fun activity from Education!

24. Perform a Dollar-Bill Magic Trick

Hocus pocus! Your kids will love watching the bills change places with this awesome money magic trick by Kids Activities Blog!

25. “Work For Hire” Post is Up!

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! What an amazing idea from Home Made by Carmona!

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• Your preschooler will get an A+ when you do these awesome letter recognition activities with them!
• Have a fun day with these wonderful learning activities for 2-year-olds !
• Your 1-year-old will learn so much while having fun with these fantastic activities for 1-year-olds !
• Practice your preschooler’s reading with these great sight word games !

Which fun money activity are you doing with your kids today?

The Money Game Experience

An online or in-person experience to explore your habits and unconscious beliefs around money..

We also offer Money Games in Spanish , French and German

Invented by Daniel Ofman at the Findhorn Community in the highlands of Scotland, the Money Game has been played by groups around the world as a way to help us think about, and deconstruct, our relationship to money.

There’s often no better way to test and draw out our hidden behaviours and assumptions than by playing a game. The Money Game helps us explore (and manifest) the habits and unconscious beliefs that determine our relationship to money and learn through both our individual experience, as well as interactions and reflections with the wider group. We've run the Money Game for many types of groups and in many countries as in-person events, and now also virtually! As a personal experience in a group setting the Money Game is never the same, but varies each based on what all participants bring to the table. Your experience is shaped by your own relationship to money, the good & bad qualities you attach to it and the histories & imagined futures you associate with it. While this can surface discomfort and painful emotions for some, it also creates fertile ground for individual & collective growth.

How it works

What happens during the game is quite simple — several rounds of “play” in a group of 8-15 people, interspersed with journaling and reflective dialogue — but in keeping with tradition of the game, we don’t share all the details in advance. Participants are asked to "bring” a meaningful amount of money in cash that they feel comfortable letting go of, but that is enough to “trigger” their learning. To ensure a meaningful experience, it is important that participants take a few minutes to feel into what this amount might be for them. People have played with anywhere from €10 to over €500.

"This game reveals so much more than you can imagine, it tells you about your ancestor's heritage and also your legacy. It's a journey through time." Audrey Hespel-Campus, Decathlon

Francesca Pick

Lucia die gill, nenad maljković.

Francesca helps groups work with money differently, be it with collaborative budgeting, transparent money flows, self-set salaries and more. In 2017 she was introduced to the Findhorn Money Game and Peter Koenig's 'Money Work', and was instantly drawn to integrate these practices into Greaterthan's work with organizations.

J.D. is a coach, facilitator, bodyworker, consultant, and community builder that loves working with alternative money practices and experimenting with more regenerative resource flow. Inspired by Findhorn’s Money Game, J.D. created the virtual Money Game Experience in 2020 and hopes every human will play it at some point in their life.

Lucia grew up around beliefs and stories that connected money and sacrifice “to have a good life, you have to work very hard”, and the likes. Finding the sweet connection spot between the self and the collective in Greaterthan, she started a journey to explore, observe and heal those intergenerational and personal money stories, with money game being a perfect tool to support others to do the same.

Now in his early sixties, Nenad has lived experience of a societal and economic collapse before and during wars in former Yugoslavia; he supports young adults in deeply adapting to current and future polycrisis, that includes dealing with various forms of money and with flow of value under difficult circumstances.

Elena Denaro

Lyssa adkins, david weingartner.

Her last name means money in Italian, so it seems somewhat fated that she’d find this to be a juicy topic. With a background in economic sociology and anthropology, she has found deep richness in examining personal money stories and experimenting with collective money practices.

a community builder, facilitator, artist and bodyworker; Lena knows that in order to meaningfully shift our societal systems towards that future, we need to shift our relationship to money, both individually as well as collectively.

an internationally-recognized thought leader in the Agile community. Money stories and decisions are at the heart of her current focus which is helping leadership teams take up the individual and collective transformation that is theirs to do.

David believes he can only accompany as far as he got himself; he embarked on the journey to explore his own money story, experiment, co-create and work with different money practices and is now inviting companions along the way.

Ashish Arora

Armin grundmann, stefan morales, miriam moreno.

Ashish supports people to follow their hearts and organisations to create transformative cultures. He is on a journey to heal his own relationship to money, and he believes that it is one of the most central work that humans can do, as money now influences almost all areas of our lives.

Armin curiously explores what is considered normal. Such as the belief “Money rules the world.” Having himself explored the questions is Money running my life? Feels like a trap? How about regaining agency and freedom?

An open-hearted iconoclast, Stefan loves to include and unleash everyone. For Stefan, money is a complex social object, abundant with meaning. We all project something onto money: good, bad, ugly, etc. What becomes possible when we uncover our own and others’ stories about money?

Miriam grew up in a context of scarcity, which marked her relationship with money, with beliefs such as “to have money you have to work hard, and ignore your health”. It has been a welcome challenge to be part of a collective where conversations about money are part of everyday life, which is why she is passionate about accompanying others on this path of reflection.

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We run money games online and in person. Register below for one of our upcoming money games to join directly as an individual, or get in touch if you would like us to run a game in-house with your team or group.

A note on pricing

We are experimenting with a tiered pricing model, to make this 3 hour experience more accessible and equitable. A standard ticket is €50, but you can join from €10 if you require support. You can also choose to provide support by purchasing a Supporter ticket. If you require any further financial support to take part, get in touch.

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The hosting team aims to create an environment of care and safety, however it is very important that you are aware that you are 100% responsible for your own experience within the game. Your experience is yours, your boundaries are yours, your needs are yours. It is important that participation must be optional and at the will of each participant — that no one is required or coerced to attend — and that every participant plan to stay the entire duration of the game, so there is sufficient time to process & reflect on whatever happens and to nurture any difficult moments that arise.

The Money Game was originally developed in the Findhorn Community in Scotland and began its tradition in Greaterthan when it was introduced to us by Tom Nixon in 2017. He was using this practice as part of his Source and Money Work, which was developed by the seminal thinker Peter Koenig . After having hosted games all over the world and deepened our knowledge on Money Work with Peter Koenig himself, Greaterthan Associate J.D. Nasaw took the initiative in 2021 to create a version of the Money Game that could be played online, and could thus benefit more people across the world as a personal and group development tool.

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Reason and Meaning

Philosophical reflections on life, death, and the meaning of life, the monopoly experiment: wealthy people are more selfish.

Does having more money make a person more inclined to share their wealth with others and acknowledge their good fortune? No. Research suggests precisely the opposite .

One experiment by psychologists at the University of California, Irvine, invited pairs of strangers to play a rigged Monopoly game where a coin flip designated one player rich and one poor. The rich players received twice as much money as their opponent to begin with; as they played the game, they got to roll two dice instead of one and move around the board twice as fast as their opponent; when they passed “Go,” they collected $200 to their opponent’s $100.

Now did the inevitable winners ascribe their winning to good luck—to their head start in the game? No. Instead, they believed they deserved their money and the others deserved their fate. The winners had no empathy for the losers.

I must say I don’t find this surprising. Consider, for example, how we have a word for when we fail at something perhaps because of bad luck—excuse. Failing to arrive on time may really have been because of an accident on the freeway or an inordinate amount of traffic. Perhaps the dog really did eat my homework. Why don’t I play professional basketball? My excuse is that I wasn’t born with the genes that in large part would have allowed me to.

Notice though we don’t have a word to eliminate credit. We might use that word for situations where we achieved something because we were, in large part, lucky. Instead, we usually say that we achieved because we were smart, perseverant, amiable, or we were just winners. We tend to take credit for our successes but not for our failures.

If interested here is the TED Talk b the social psychologist Paul Piff sharing his research into how people behave when they feel wealthy.

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4 thoughts on “ the monopoly experiment: wealthy people are more selfish ”.

I asked two people about this, and the first one—who isn’t rich—said wealthy people don’t like to lose because they don’t want to be taken advantage of. That is to say pride rather than greed. The second person, who is rich, said “rich people don’t know what to do, anymore than anyone else.” In other words, since they’re as clueless as others, they cannot be expected to be wiser than others, or behave more wisely. — At any rate, rich people can always buy people out, so there’s little hope for the near future. An organized crime organization simply purchases capos and soldiers with large sums, and favors. The legal world isn’t that much different than the world of secret societies, is it? The overall principle is the same: give loyal retainers funds and swag. — But it isn’t so much about the rich themselves—it is their descendants who matter to them. Oligarch leaders such as Trump, Putin, and Xi will be gone someday, however they know that their descendants will take over their legacies, insuring their genetic continuation. — So we can see three factors above: the rich not wanting to be taken advantage of. Their cluelessness. Their dynastic continuation. — And finally, it goes without saying they strongly believe that if it wasn’t they themselves dominating, it would be usurpers taking their place. Survey rightwing magazines, and you’ll see many an article beginning with “When Stalin took over the the Soviet Union in 1928…” A shiver runs up the spine of the subscriber as they read the main body of a piece concerning Chuck Schumer, Ocasio-Cortez, or Biden. “We were right! These leftists are totalitarian usurpers and always have been.” Then the slippery-slope is invoked: you start out with Schumer, Ocasio-Cortez, and Biden—and the outcome is the Holodomor, cattle cars, and GULAG. “We must nip these usurpers in the bud, so please donate to the Gipper Memorial Barbecue Fund, so we don’t all end up in the GULAG, eating bread made of sawdust!”

Two things I know: It’s a long way to Tipperary and certainly even longer until we’re ever guided by someone resembling a “Philosopher King.”

When you have never had money, money isn’t your obsession, you aren’t greedy you share with others who also haven’t much surplus, and then,,,you get some money and it becomes very important to have your money because you are your money, your money opens doors for you, people who wouldn’t even ever notice you are now asking for your advice and doing things because you’ve told them to! Modern man’s God is money, as such, a person who has Money exhibits the favor of God because, how could a man be rich except that the God has given it to him! ( That is why we believe in Bill Gates the Philanthropist ) He has Money and he gets good press! Money is the Talisman most sought after by modern people, the true talisman with power, standing between the man who has it and the World, he perceives, of Hunger and chaos that those who don’t have it live in. The more Money you have the greater burden you bear, the more money you have the greater your fear of losing it! “Money is the drug you can’t stop chasing”

Since the future hasn’t happened yet no one ‘Really’ knows what the future will bring, but the World of Men, that World that lives in the minds of all men around the World,, is becoming heavily laden with anxiety of the free floating kind, since it can’t really be objectively dealt with, like Covid in the fully vaxxed, it appears where we think it couldn’t or certainly shouldn’t, or at least where we were told it wouldn’t, yet there it is!

@ Al Brooks, I’ve read everything you have posted here for the last two years, you are unfailingly polite, always of a good nature and always hopeful for a good out come, I also hope for a good outcome Al, please be assured of that, we are both singing from the same page, But, you maybe more prophetic that was your original intention. See you at the Barbecue!

If you use the “model of the mind” by C.H. Rathbun a model designed by advanced hypnotherapy, age regression, this makes perfect sense. The position of the ego, not Freud or Jung, as the critical mind between the conscious mind and the subconscious associated memory files chooses the ego belief system (cognitive bias) over a true self of applied critical thought. This may not lead to full blow narcissistic personality disorder or other variations of psychopathy, but the individual should lean in this direction because of narcissistic supply from domination of the other. It is natural that the mind chooses the ego thought system, the problem is that critical thought appears to come from the mind when in fact it comes from stored emotional associations that are already programed this way.

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