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Description

Learn about the designs on British coins – can you recognise them with your eyes shut?

Taken from: https://www.scouts.org.uk/activities/learning-about-coins/

Resources

Real coins, or attached printable coins.

Instructions

Activity summary
This activity gives everyone the chance to get familiar with British coins. Take some time to know your coins and talk through the designs, then get stuck into play the games to help everyone get familiar with them all.

Before you begin
Use the safety checklist to help you plan and risk assess your activity. Additional help to carry out your risk assessment, including examples can be found here. Don’t forget to make sure all young people and adults involved in the activity know how to take part safely.
Make sure you’ll have enough adult helpers. You may need some parents and carers to help if you’re short on helpers.

Getting ready to run this activity
Read through the information on this page and on the ‘Printable coins’ sheet to learn about the images on our coins and what they represent.
You’ll need either physical coins or images of coins, depending on how you’re running the activity.
If you’re using physical coins, you’ll need at least two of each coin (1p, 2p, 5p, 10p 50p, £1, and £2).
If you’re missing a coin or two, you could use the images in the ‘Printable coins’ sheet.
If you don’t have access to physical coins, you can print the ‘Printable coins’ sheet and cut out the coins.

Step 1: Know your coins
The person leading the activity should show everyone the coins (or the images of coins) and describe the designs. Focus on the 1p to 50p first, then bring the £1 and £2 coins in later.
Chat about what – or who – the designs represent.
Everyone should talk about what they notice about the coins, such as their shape and colour.
People should take it in turns to put the coins in order of value.

Step 2: Play the games
It’s up to you which games you play – or if you want to find another way to get the group familiar with the coins and their value.

Get creative (with physical coins or pictures of coins)
Everyone should come up with a fun way to remember the order of the coins.
They could sing, dance, tell a story, or do something with the pattern in the designs.

Play guess the coin (with physical coins or pictures of coins)
Someone should choose a coin.
Everyone else should take it in turns to ask them questions to find out which coin they’ve chosen. The questions should be ones the person can answer by saying ‘yes’ or ‘no’.
Everyone should keep asking questions until they can guess which coin the person chose.

Play coin charades (with physical coins or pictures of coins)
Someone should choose a coin and describe it. Make it trickier by describing it without using certain words like ‘round’ or ‘silver’.
Everyone should guess which coin they've chosen.

Play order! (with physical coins)
Everyone should close their eyes and feel each coin. They should pay attention to the size, shape, and weight.
Can they recognise which coin is which? Why might it be important to be able to tell the difference between coins without looking at them?
Everyone should keep their eyes closed as they race to put the coins in value order.

Play find the coin (with physical coins)
Everyone should close their eyes.
The person leading the game should mix up the coins.
The person leading the game should name a coin.
Everyone should keep their eyes closed as they race to find the coin and pick it up.

Reflection
This activity showed how and why the different parts of British coins are different. It also gave everyone a chance to learn how to recognise them quickly.  What helped people to remember the coins? Why are they different? Did anyone have a way of remembering the value order? How did it feel when there was a time limit on finding the coin? How might this activity help everyone in the future?

Tags

• money
• scoutsofficial

Badge Links

• Money Skills - Coins/Notes