Ages 4+ · Money · Saving and budgets
Saving in a jar
🪁a kite to wish for🪙a coin🫙a jar🛍️buy it
Saving in a jar.The big ideaIf we want something big, we can save a coin at a time.
How it works
If we want something big, we can save a coin at a time.
Saving is putting coins away for something big.
First we wish, then we save, then we buy.
Example 1: Wish
- Pip sees a kite and wants it.
- The kite costs more than Pip's one coin.
- Pip cannot just take it, because we pay in a shop.
Example 2: Save
- Pip finds the biggest jar in the house.
- Each day, Pip puts a coin in the jar, plink!
- A friend offers sweets, and Pip says no thank you and keeps saving.
🫙jar🪙a coin each day🙅no thank you
Saving.Example 3: Buy
- At last the jar is full to the top.
- Pip pours the coins out for the kite seller.
- The seller says, that is enough, and the kite is Pip's.
Words to know
- save
- To put coins away for something big.
- jar
- A pot to keep coins in.
- wish
- To want something very much.
- kite
- A toy that flies on a string in the wind.
Watch out
- Buying sweets at once uses up the coins.
- A coin in the sand gets lost.
- Taking the kite is not saving. We pay for a kite in a shop.
- Waiting is hard, and that is okay.
Try it
- How did Pip get the kite?
- Where did Pip put a coin each day?
- What comes first, wish or buy?
- Does a coin in the sand help Pip save?
Answers: 1. by saving coins in a jar · 2. in the jar · 3. wish · 4. no
Try at homeWith a grown-up, find a jar at home and talk about what you could save a coin at a time for.
For grown-upsFind a jar at home and talk with your child about one small thing they could save a coin at a time for.