Teaching kids about coins is an important part of their development. With a basic understanding of common coins and their corresponding values, helps build your child’s confidence and become more independent. From pennies to quarters, the most common coins are easy to identify through shape and color. Explaining how these pieces of money represent value in everyday life can be beneficial to a child’s development, helping them understand the basics of money management and financial literacy.

As adults, it is our job to reinforce these lessons with practical applications. This could include helping your child count out change at the store or organizing spare change into separate piles for each type of coin. Making games out of counting money is also a great way to get kids engaged while teaching them valuable knowledge at the same time!

A great way to teach children about coins is with interactive activities. We have a quick and easy parent lesson plan you can use for hands on learning even if you do not have a pile of coins at home. Once you have completed the fun teaching activity, using a variety of different worksheets is a great way to supplement learning. There are a variety of free worksheets that cover topics such as identifying coins by their name and value. Kids can learn the difference between pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters. They can practice counting by 5’s and 10’s with the help of some colorful worksheets that feature images of US coins. With these resources, you can provide visual aids to show how much each type of coin is worth in comparison to another. This will help reinforce what was taught and add an educational component to it all!

Printable Penny Nickel Dime Quarter Worksheet [FREE ACTIVITY]

When it comes to engaging kids in learning activities, I always look for creative ways to combine different subjects. For example, at Goose Goose Duck we combine American history with math with an activity based on the life of cowboy Robert Lemmons. The Texan used out of the box thinking to become the greatest mustanger who ever lived and used his earnings to become a wealthy gentleman rancher. As part of the activity, kids had to use money to represent how a problem can have more than one solution. Kids can see how there are many different options that can lead to success. To make this more interesting, we incorporate social studies into the exercise by having my children learn about Mr. Lemmons and his journey as a cowboy.

About The Printable Penny Nickel Dime Quarter Activity

Inspiration: Robert Lemmons had a different way of rounding up mustangs than other cowboys. By taking control of the herd without using force, the horses he delivered were healthy and strong. His success is an example of there being more than one way to complete a task. Many ranchers hired Mr. Lemmons and paid him well for his unique skills. He was good with his money and became a wealthy man with a large ranch of his own. He was also kind, helping out people in the community when they did not have food and other items.

The Activity: Robert Lemmons was an independent thinker. He became a wealthy man by thinking and acting differently. The math activity shows there are different ways or more than one path to solve a problem and get a correct answer. For the Kindergarten level exercise, it is best to use actual coins as an interactive tool. If they are not available, use the How Many Coins to Make 36 Cents sheet in place of real coins. Your child will use the sets of coins in different coin combos to make the correct amount

This engaging pdf activity is available as a free download. Don’t worry if you don’t have real coins. All the different coins can be printed HERE. You can print as many as you want for various combination of coins.

For the full Robert Lemmons activity pack CLICK HERE.

FREE Bundle Of Printable Worksheets

This fun and informative set of printable worksheets will help boost your kid’s knowledge of coins. They’ll learn basic facts like how many cents there are in each coin, as well as their values. This is great practice for teaching them the basics of counting money too! Plus it’s an easy activity that requires minimal instruction or assistance. The batch of pdf worksheets are totally free to download for personal use in pdf format – making them both convenient and cost effective!

Some of the worksheets include:

Amount Of Money Price Tag Worksheet

Coin Name Worksheets

Coin Values Worksheets

Total Money Value Worksheet

Download the free coins worksheet bundle HERE.

OTHER PRINTABLE COIN ACTIVITIES WITH A HISTORY TWIST

Are you looking for a way to teach your kindergarten, first graders, second grade, or 3rd grade kids about economic empowerment? The Martin Luther King Activity Pack has you covered! This fun and interactive activity pack has an interactive count money activity and a variety of exercises that help kids understand the importance of economic empowerment.

The activities are designed to be educational and engaging. Kids will learn how to make smart financial decisions while having a great time doing it. They can practice life skills such as counting money, decision-making skills, opportunity loss, comparing prices and more. Plus, each activity includes helpful tips and tricks that can help kids develop important financial literacy skills they’ll use throughout their lives.

Along with coin worksheet printouts for the hands on activities there are also printable bill images and a craft printout so your little bankers can make their own piggy banks. The money math games and exercises are designed to promote handling money skills while learning about an important American figure.

You can download the whole activity pack and see other Goose Goose Duck lesson plans by visiting HERE.

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