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Money Skills: Plan a Mini Shop
Role play that teaches genuinely useful things: pricing, adding, giving change and deciding what something is worth. Print the tags and open for business.
Ages
5-7, 7-9
Level
KS1, Lower KS2
Subject
Life Skills
Duration
45 min
What you'll need
- Printed price tags and receipts
- Real or play coins
- Household 'stock'
What the learner will explore
- Coin recognition
- Adding amounts
- Giving change
How to do it
- 1
Choose ten items to sell and price them with the printed tags.
- 2
Set up a float of coins.
- 3
Take turns being shopkeeper and customer.
- 4
Fill in a receipt for each sale.
Make it easier
Price everything in whole pounds.
Make it harder
Add a 10% sale and calculate the new prices.
Try it differently
Run it as a café with a menu, or a plant stall outdoors.
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