💳tap the card🫙a safe place🪙coins hop🧸Pip's toy bear
A card pays with coins.
The big ideaA card pays with coins from a safe place. It is not free money.
How it works
A card is a way to pay. It is still paying with coins.
The coins come from a safe place, and they hop across to the shop's jar. A card is not free money.
What happens when a card is tapped.
Example 1: Tap the card
The grown-up has no coins in hand.
The grown-up taps a flat card on a little box.
Beep! The shop hears it.
Example 2: Where the coins go
The safe place is where grown-ups keep their coins.
When the card is tapped, coins hop out of it.
Plink, plink, plink, they hop to the shop's jar.
🫙safe place🪙coins hop🏪the shop's jar
Safe place to shop.
Example 3: Fewer coins
Look at the safe place after paying.
It has fewer coins.
The card did not make new coins.
Example 4: An empty safe place
When the safe place is empty, there is nothing to send.
Then the card cannot pay.
So a card is not free money.
Words to know
card
A flat piece that helps a grown-up pay.
safe place
Where grown-ups keep their coins.
tap
To touch the card on the little box.
Watch out
A card does not make toys appear. The shop is paid with coins.
A card can run out when the safe place is empty.
Never name or show a real card or its numbers. Keep those private.
Try it
Is a card free money?
Where do the coins come from when a card pays?
Who gets the coins when a grown-up taps a card?
What happens if the safe place is empty?
Answers: 1. no · 2. a safe place · 3. the shop · 4. the card cannot pay
Try at homeWith a grown-up, watch how something gets paid for. Is it coins or a card? Remember, a card still pays with real money kept somewhere safe.
For grown-upsNext time you pay, say aloud, 'I am tapping my card, and the shop gets paid with my coins from a safe place.' Keep real card details private; this is a lesson on the idea.
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