Dino Bank - Money & Time

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Mom coined a new game for this week's club meet. It combines both money and time telling into one fun game - Dino Bank.
Make a pretty gameboard as shown above - draw anything with a game path in a file folder - we used the dinosaur's spikes as the game path. You need some index cards with time written in digital format on one side, an analog clock to set the time, some real coins, playing pieces.
Players take turns and draw the index cards. The player reads the digital time on the card and should set the clock in the analog learning clock. The next player has to guess the time. If they both get it right, they both get a penny each. If one loses, the other gets twice the money (say 2 pennies in this case). Then they put their coins and place their play piece on top of it in the gameboard. When a player collects 5 pennies, he can convert that into a nickel in the dino bank (your gameboard) and place the nickel on the second space (dino spike) and place his piece on top or it. From this point, he gets 1 or 2 nickels for every correct time set/guess until he converts the nickels into a dime and moves to the next spike. Play ends when anyone converts their coins into a dollar in the dino bank!

This game simultaneously teaches/revises money identification, money manipulation, reading digital time, setting the analog clock to a time, reading the analog clock..oh the possibilities!

We enjoyed this game. We practiced time telling to half hour this week and we all made it to the finish line one by one. Mom said everyone is a winner.