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Coin Games for Kids

Creating games for children helps to reinforce important educational concepts by making the learning process fun and engaging. Coin games are a great way to help children learn about money and counting coins. To create coin games, you will need supplies found around your house and a few other supplies found at a teacher resource store.

Cover the Coin Game
- To play this game, you need 20 pennies and a plate per partnership. This game will help teach children how to count pennies with adding and subtracting. The game begins with 10 or 20 pennies on top of the plate. If children are beginning their coin counting skills, it is wise to start with only 10 pennies and gradually move up to 20. Each player will count to make sure that there are indeed 10 pennies on top of the plate. Next, one of the players will cover his eyes while the other player will remove some of the pennies and hide them underneath the plate. When the other player opens his eyes, he will try to determine how many pennies are hidden by looking at how many pennies are left on top of the plate. The partners can take turns playing this for several rounds. They may increase the number of pennies to make this game more challenging.
Coin Top It Game
- To play this game, you need a deck of coin cards which can be found at a teacher resource store. A deck of coin cards is similar to a regular deck, but instead of numbers it has various coin amounts. To begin, each partnership should have a deck of coin cards. The deck should be shuffled and placed in between both players. The first player turns over two cards and adds up the coin amount. Next, the second player turns over two cards and adds up the coin amount. Whichever player picked the highest added coin amount wins that round and gets all four cards. The players can take turns playing; the player with the most cards when the deck runs out is the winner.
Coin Bingo
- To play coin bingo, you first need to make bingo cards. Many teacher resource stores sell coin bingo cards already, but they can be easily created as well. To make your own, begin with a blank bingo card that can be printed on the computer or found on a website. Next, search the Internet for pictures of coins. Print out the pictures of coins and glue them onto squares on the bingo card. Make a few combinations so that each card is different. Give the children pennies to use as bingo markers. Call out coin combinations: quarter and penny is 26 cents. Whoever gets a straight line wins with a bingo.

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