Money Activities Coin Identification Craft Sticks Practice and Assessment Game

These coin “craft stick paddles” are a quick, easy and fun way to practice coin identification, as well as easily whole-group assess.

Teacher Comments:

• “My students loved using these and it was easy for me to assess them.”
• “Super cute and easy for the students to understand and use!”

Students need just two craft sticks, as they glue the penny & nickel back-to-back, and the dime and quarter back-to-back.

Since size is one of the ways my kiddos differentiate the coins, I designed the coins on a background circle.

Children color, cut and glue to the top of two different colored craft sticks.

I’ve included small, medium, and large pattern choices.

They can simply write the names of the coins right on the sticks using a marker, or have them trace, trim and glue the labels.

Teacher reads clues from the poster.

Kiddos hold up their coin “craft stick paddle” when they know which coin is being described.

You can see at a glance who is having difficulty.

Teacher Comments:

• “This activity was so wonderful and truly helped with coin recognition practice!”
• “These are very creative. The children loved using them.”

Besides reading the clues, you can also say: “Show me the penny!” “Show me the nickel...”

We keep our sticks in our desks, so that I can review and whole-group assess throughout the month.

For an even more realistic visual, I put real coins on another set of my teacher-sticks.

This money game provides an interesting and appropriate activity for Presidents' Day too.

I’m Diane from Teach With Me, hoping that this “Show me the money!” craftivity, is just the thing that turns on those light bulbs of recognition.

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