They say money talks – and Crazy 8s starts teaching kids that language. This session showed kids the basic flow: You work a job to earn money, you pay taxes, you buy things with money and you can give money to charities.
There’s SO much more to learn, so keep the fun going. For starters, here’s a Party Fun Fact: A stack of dimes and an equal value stack of quarters (e.g. 50 cents of each) will have the exact same weight! If you have a kitchen scale, gather dimes and quarters and prove it together with your kids. If you don’t have a scale, you can build a simple balancing scale:
- Cut 2 equal length of string or yarn
- Tie one to each end of a clothes hanger, and also tape to the frame to prevent sliding
- Holepunch a hole in each of 2 equal-weight, equal-height plastic cups
- Tie each string through the hole of a cup to finish!
Then get some more math practice in our Bedtime Math problem When Coins Make Sense. You can also learn about incorrectly-stamped (and therefore rare) pennies at Messed-Up Pennies.
On a different, spatial note, the geometric twisty-snake your kid “bought” at Crazy 8s has 24 segments and infinite cool ways to twist them. Try creating these challenge shapes!
