FAMILY GAMES

by Papa

Title: Money Money Money

Summary:

A lot of kids are interested in money at an early age.  This game teaches them how to count money in a fun way.  Kid A invented this game after receiving a play money kit as a gift.

Recommended Age: 6-8

What you will need:

• A set of play money
  
• The set should have a good amount of all the different values:

-10 dollar bills
-5 dollar bills
-1 dollar bills
-Quarters
-Dimes
-Nickels
-Pennies

• A stack of note cards
  
• A white sheet of paper
  
• Player pieces (you can borrow them from a board game that you own like "Sorry" or "Monopoly"
  
• A small ball that anyone can hold in their hand
  

Instructions:

1. On the white sheet of paper, draw a table with the number of players as the amount of columns and between 10 and 20 rows.  This will be the board.
   
2. Label the bottom side of the table as Start and the top side as You Win.
   
3. On each note card, write an amount of money.  Try to make the amounts under $20 and make them all vary for different degrees of difficulty.
   
4. Shuffle the note cards and turn them face down in a pile.
   
5. Place the player pieces on the Start row of the board.
   
6. Distribute the money evenly.
   
7. Take turns flipping a note card over to show the amount.
   
8. All players get the amount showing from their stash.
   
9. The first player who puts the correct amount from their stash and grabs the ball wins the round and gets to advance one row on the board.
   
10. Once someone grabs the ball, all players stop and check if that player did indeed get the correct amount.  If you grab the ball and you don't have the correct amount, you move back one row.
    
11. The first player to get to the You Win row wins!
    

Optional Instructions:

If you want to give the younger children a better chance, you can have the player who turns over the note card roll a set of dice.  The amount shown is the amount all the players except the young child needs to count to before accessing their money stash.  You can use multiples of the dice number if you need to make the amount of time higher.