Find financial literacy activities
Find activities that can help you teach and nurture the building blocks of financial capability across the curriculum.
These classroom activities can be completed within a single class period. Each activity comes with a teacher guide and supporting student material, so it’s easy to implement whether you’re an experienced personal finance teacher, integrating financial literacy into another subject area, or supplementing your existing financial education curriculum.

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Writing about saving
Ideal for: Elementary school (4-5)
Students discuss useful savings habits and then write an expository, persuasive, or narrative paragraph about saving.
Creating a song about saving
Ideal for: Elementary school (2-3), Elementary school (4-5)
Students write and sing a song about saving money
Understanding our money choices
Ideal for: Elementary school (4-5)
Students discuss and reflect on how they think and feel about money and how the people in their lives help shape those thoughts and feelings.
Building savings habits
Ideal for: Elementary school (4-5)
Students discuss useful savings habits and then write captions for a comic strip about saving money.
Bouncing ball spending game
Ideal for: Elementary school (2-3), Elementary school (4-5)
Students play a game to explore how they make choices about money and how people in their lives can influence those choices.