Materials
tagboardcolor markerscrayonsgame markersreal or play money (pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters)piggy bank or jardice
Instructions
1. Make a game board using a piece of tagboard. Draw double lines to create a road. Make it curvy.
2. Put an arrow at the beginning and a $ sign, jar, or piggy bank at the end.
3. Mark off spaces.
4. Draw coins and write the values in the spaces, for example, 1 cents, 3 cents, 5 cents, 10 cents, and 25 cents. You can use the same value more than once.
5. Add other interesting directions in the spaces, such as: go back 1 space, go ahead two spaces, take a rest, and skip one turn.
6. Invite the children to color in the spaces using crayons.
7. Put real coins in the jar or piggy bank.
8. To play the game, the children take turns rolling the dice.
9. When someone lands on a square with cents, they take that many cents outof the jar. Of course, they have to follow what the other spaces say as well.
10. At the end, the children count their coins to see how much money they collected along the way.
11. To make the game more challenging for older children, add spaces where money has to be paid out for things along the way (this offers practice with subtraction).
