Ages 4+ · Money · Investing and growing
Planting a money seed
🪙a coin🌰plant it💧water🌱sprout
A pretend money seed.The big ideaIn a pretend garden, a coin seed grows if we water it and wait.
How it works
This is a pretend garden story.
In the pretend garden, a coin seed grows if we water it and wait.
A seed needs water, sun and a little time.
Example 1: Plant it
- Pip digs a little hole.
- Pip puts the coin in, plop, and covers it with soil.
- Now the coin is a money seed.
Example 2: Water and wait
- Pip waters the seed, splash, splash.
- The sun shines down, warm and bright.
- Pip waits, and hums a happy song.
☀️sun💧water🟫soil
What helps a seed.Example 3: It grows
- One morning something green pokes up.
- A tiny sprout opens two little leaves.
- More coins hang on it, but only in the pretend garden.
Words to know
- seed
- A tiny thing that can grow into a plant.
- sprout
- A tiny green shoot.
- soil
- The earth a seed sleeps in.
- pretend
- Not real, but fun to imagine.
Watch out
- This is a pretend garden. Coins do not grow on plants in a real garden.
- A seed does not grow right away. It takes waiting.
- A ball, a snail or a toy car does not help a seed grow.
Try it
- Is the coin garden real or pretend?
- What does a seed need?
- Does a seed grow right away?
- What came up from the soil?
Answers: 1. pretend · 2. water, sun and time · 3. no · 4. a sprout
Try at homeWith a grown-up, plant a real seed in a pot, water it every day and watch it grow.
For grown-upsPlant a real seed in a pot together, and say that the coin seed was only a pretend story, because real coins do not grow in the ground.