Financial Education
Providing kids with financial education can help them understand what money is and learn to make good financial choices.
Helping Kids Make Good Financial Choices with Cookie Monster
Cookie Monster’s mom knows that financial education is all about making choices. Watch Cookie Monster learn the basic concepts of saving, spending, and sharing—all with cookies!
Help kids learn the value of money by understanding what it means to save, spend, and share.
Three Jars
A printable activity to help kids learn about spending, sharing, and saving.
Elmo Learns to Save
Sing along to a song about saving.
For Providers: Spending, Sharing, and Saving
Help kids learn the value of money when they spend, share, and save.
Play Money
Use this pretend money to have some extra fun during dramatic play.
Helping Others
Watch Elmo learn about different ways to help others in his community.
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Guest Post: Helping your child’s money skills grow
Learn ways to start your children’s financial futures off strong
Building Financial Skills in the Classroom
These classroom activities emphasize the key financial concepts of choices, value, and financial literacy skills: spending, saving, and sharing.
For Providers: Spending, Sharing, and Saving
Help kids learn the value of money when they spend, share, and save.
Money Talk
Learn how you can answer kids’ questions about money.
V Is for Value
Learn how to explore the meaning of value with children.
Making Choices
Learn the importance of talking about choices with children and how it relates to financial decision-making down the road.
Need It or Want It?
Help children understand the difference between needs and wants.
Lemonade Stand
Helping Grover and Elmo run their lemonade stand to see how the value of a financial transaction is worth more than just money. Learn more here.
A Birthday Gift for Elmo
Children learn about earning, spending, and saving money in this printable story that they can read and color.
Parents, caregivers, and providers can keep the learning going! Find more topics and resources to help children build skills that lay the foundation for success in school and in life.
Learning Through Routines
Ordinary moments such as getting dressed, preparing meals, cleaning up, or bedtime offer opportunities to build math, language, and other skills that prepare kids for school.
School Readiness
Simple ways to lay the foundation for learning.
Math
Math is all around us—and both kids and grown-ups can make math fun every day!
