Coin sorting

I have been checking out this blog lately Laugh, Learn, Love. Each Monday they post a theme challenge and then you link your ideas to their post. The whole blog is about playing with your kids. When you check it out make sure to read what Erin and Deneal wrote about themselves in the left-hand sidebar. Can't you relate?

Anyway, this week the theme is currency. So the kids and I did some coin sorting last night. I got our spare change bowl and labeled some jelly jars and they went to town sorting out the coins. It wasn't as easy for them as I thought it would be. But they did have fun.


Some other things might be coin cleaning, I think I will send them outside today with an old toothbrush and a bucket of soapy water and the coins...that will keep them busy for sure!

A good counting game is to roll dice and then they have to count out pennies in the same number as they roll on the dice.

Or roll the dice and stack that number of coins each time until the stack gets tall enough to fall over.

How about making patterns with the coins, or lining them up by sizes?

Check out Laugh, Learn, Love, they have some great ideas!