Free Money Game Idea - Fun House Money Game

Integrating games into academic lessons sparks curiosity, builds multisensory engagement, and captures the attention of even the most reluctant learners. Play transforms learning; suddenly, students are leaning in, participating, and discovering concepts with genuine enthusiasm.

I feel that same creative spark when I open my craft and scrapbook materials. Each new “game of the week” brings a fresh sense of excitement and wonder into my sessions, making the learning experience joyful for both me and my students.

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This week, I created the Fun House Money Game to help students develop their skills in identifying and adding pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters.

 Items needed:

1) small box
2) craft or scrapbook paper
3) glue
4) scissors
5) long table or a melamine shelf
6) marbles or shuffleboard pieces (I purchased the shuffleboard pieces on Amazon and included the link below.)
7) play money or real change in a small basket or plastic bin

Process:

1) Remove the bottom of the box with scissors.
2) Cover the box with colorful craft paper.
3) Cut four doorways/holes in the side as illustrated.
4) Label the doorways: pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters. You can also use this same game for fractions or other numerical denominations.

How to Play the Fun House Money Game

Place the colorful Fun House box at the end of a table or shelf. Give each player twelve marbles or shuffleboard pucks, then decide who will go first.

Players take turns sliding or rolling their pieces toward the box, aiming for the doorways. Each time a marble makes it inside, the player chooses the correct amount of change from the coin basket.

The game ends when one player has successfully rolled all twelve marbles into the Fun House. Then, everyone counts up the change they collected. The player with the highest total wins!

I hope you and your learners enjoy this playful money-skills game. I’d love to hear how it goes!

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Cheers, Erica