This is another activity that was inspired by something from Pinterest. It was a picture of a coin sorting activity using a snack divider tray. K was bored after dinner one night and we had a ton of change that I needed to count and put in rolls. I don’t have the snack divider tray shown in the picture, but I do have a 4 section glass plate that I believe was a wedding gift. I put a coin in each section to show her what coin goes in that section. Then, she started sorting the coins.
We didn’t get very far that night, K was tired from her day at school, but we picked it up the next morning. We finished the sorting, then she started counting it into stacks of 10 so I could wrap it. We worked on it a few times throughout the day, I think all the counting was wearing her out!
We ended having $52 in coins! We will take it to the bank this week to deposit into savings for the girls.
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LOOOOVE it!!! I’m not a project-y kind of mom but Jack has a huge jar of change we’ve been saving up since he was a baby. I love that he can learn the different coins – he currently calls nickels and quarters “quarters” and dimes are “diamonds.” (Talk about a heart attack when he said he “stole the diamond” off my nightstand!!) Plus, he can practice counting!
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