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Thursday, June 23, 2011

Summer Project-Share, Spend, Save

We have alot of summer projects planned. Things to do around the house, and little crafts with the kids. 
Today Chloe and I went to A.C Moore and Joann Fabrics and got a few things to do together. We also put together her money jars. I got the idea when I was reading a magazine at the library a few weeks ago. It was an article that talked about PNC Bank and Sesame Street teaming up to teach kids about saving money. I went home and did some research on it, it talks about the important of the 3 S's, Spending, Sharing and Saving. So I talked with Chloe about it and the importance of it all. She is always hearing the Mr Softy truck drive by and wants an ice cream, or we go to the store and she sees something that she wants, so explaining this all to her in a way that made sense was great, and she got really excited to do this herself. We decided we would use jars that we had. A small mayo jar and 2 small pb jars, all the same size, plastic and had tops that screwed on. Pergfect. 
She had money in one jar that she had been saving. She gets money when she helps mommy, daddy or grandma. She will help us when we do laundry, dishes, cleaning up her room, or cleaning up in the den. Little things here and there will earn her a quarter or a few coins. So today we split up the money into the 3 jars. She helped to sort the money so that it was evenly split, she picked out 3 colored notecards and I wrote each S word on them. We taped it to the jars and there we go.  Now each time she gets money she will split it between the jars. 




Here is the info if any of you are interested in doing this with your kids. Liam is too young now but when he gets older and understands I would love to do it with him too. There are other activities at the links that you can do with the kids. There are even printable labels.
http://www.sesamestreet.org/parents/save

http://www.savings.com/blog/post/Sesame-Street-and-PNC-Bank-Team-Up-to-Educate-Kids-About-Saving.html




Chloe's Jars  :) 


Share, Save, Spend



<3 Liz

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