Make-It Topic: Money

Imaginative 

• Set up a bank using larger play money cash registers, calculators, cheques
• Make a bank machine
• Place out different purses and wallets to play with

Language

•  Read “Arthurs pet business”
• Read “ Just a piggy bank”
• Read the poem Coins
• Penny, penny, easily spent
  Copper crown 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! 

• Talk about the tooth fairy and what kind of money she brings

Art

• Stick coins to a cardboard backing allow the children to do coin rubbings 
• Use a jar allow the children to decorate it for a piggy bank 
• Print or purchase play money allow the children to make a money collage
• Make credit cards using cardboard and paints 
• Use a rubber money stamp to stamp with

Water/Sand

• Place out gold nuggets in the sand table
• Place scoops and plastic coins in the water table
• Place out coins and treasure chests in the sand table

Gross Motor

• Have a penny toss and bill toss what goes farther 
• Have cardboard bills have the children go on a money hunt
• Place a pot of gold in the yard let the children follow coins to it

Science/Curiosity

• (Choke able) place out coins and a scale allow the children to explore the money
• Place out bills and allow the children to explore with a magnifier glass
• Clean a penny with coke

Blocks

• Place out large gold and silver for building with
• Place out bricks to build with

Conceptual/Tabletop/Fine Motor

• Place out home made coins for sorting
• Match the dollar bills
• Make pay cheques for sorting colors and numbers
• Make a money game using a dice with coins roll to get from one end to the other
• Quarter stacking roll a dice and see how many quarters to stack (choke able)

Music

• Make paper plate shakers with pennies
• Dance to the sound of money

Quiet

• Make a flannel board money story

Cooking

•  Make purse sandwiches 
• Use pita bread for the purse and fill with desired ingredients

Field Trips

• Take a trip to the local bank for a tour
• Go to the store with a dollar allow the children to buy stuff