How Much Lunch Money Should I Give to My Child at Secondary School?
Secondary school brings greater choice and complexity, especially in the canteen. Here’s how to work out the money side, and more…
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#15 Spot the best savings account
Stay at home challenge – Spot the best savings account. Get them checking comparison tables of children’s savings accounts, and find an account paying the highest interest.
#14 Set up shop
Stay at home challenge – Set up shop. Playing shop is a great activity for the imagination as well as practicing some mental arithmetic.
#20 Future me
Stay at home challenge – Future me. This challenge is about having fun with all the possibilities ahead of you.
#13 Fridge Raiders
Stay at home challenge – Fridge Raiders. A simple game about a simple but important money concept – Needs vs Wants.
#19 Which way to pay?
Stay at home challenge – Which way to pay? Cash is fairly easy for kids to understand, but other methods from plastic cards to smartphones can be trickier for kids to get their head’s around.
#12 Start Selling
Stay at home challenge – Start Selling. A great way to help your kids earn some money that may also help with the spring cleaning!
#11 Family Dinner Party
Stay at home challenge – Family Dinner Party. This one is a great way to bring together a lot of big money lessons in one simple… meal! Get the kids to organise Saturday night’s dinner.
#10 – 1p or £1000?
Stay at home challenge – 1p or £1000? Which would you choose? It’s a simple question, with a surprising answer. And a great lesson on the power of compound interest, for all of us.
#9 Aiming for Goals
Stay at home challenge – Aiming for Goals. Kids love thinking about what they want, and what they can buy. So use that enthusiasm to help them draw up their own budget.
#8 Wallet Workout
Stay at home challenge – Wallet workout. Quite simply, your kids tip out all the cards in your wallet, but this time, instead of getting angry, you turn it into a money lesson!
#7 What do I do all day?
Stay at home challenge – What do I do all day? Take this opportunity to talk to your kids about your job? What do you do, and why? It could get them thinking about what they want to do too.
#6 Home Tuck Shop
Stay at home challenge – Set up a tuck shop at home. Laura Symond’s genius way of keeping the kids from nagging for sweets whilst also teaching them some valuable money lessons.
#5 Retro Board Games
Stay at home challenge – Dust off those retro board games. Monopoly and The Game of Life are great games that involve concepts like earning and saving, so are full of valuable lessons.
#4 Unleash Their Inner Entrepreneur
Stay at home challenge – Inner Entrepreneur. Could your kids be the next Bill Gates? This activity is all about getting their creative & business minds going !???????⠀