Play Store Like Peter and Polly
In the story, The Tent Store, Peter and Polly exchange lemonade, sandwiches, and cookies for coins. In the US, the most common types of coins are quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies.
Facts about coins:
- A penny is worth one cent.
- A nickel is worth five cents.
- A dime is worth ten cents.
- A quarter is worth twenty-five cents.
Objective:
Practice counting using money. Pretend to price, buy, and sell items.
Materials:
Ten pennies per child, several toys to ‘sell’, paper, pencil or pen, scissors, and tape
Procedure:
- Gather ten pennies and several toys and play store with another person.
- Decide how much each toy is worth, with an upper limit of 10 cents.
- Next, create price labels for the toys. Write the number of cents each toy is worth along with the symbol for cents (¢)
- Tape the price labels to each toy.
- Now, play store with at least one other person, where one is the cashier and the others are customers in the store. Practice buying toys with the pennies.
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