This easy-to-assemble game teaches children how to add simple sums of money up to a pound. Expand your child's skill by eventually including cubes that represent amounts over a pound as well.

What this activity will develop:
Maths, art and social skills

What you'll need:

• Block of polystyrene
• Craft knife
• Twelve peel-off dots
• Fine-tipped permanent marker

What to do:

1. Cut two cubes from the polystyrene.

2. Print a money value on each peel-off label (for example, 5p, 10p, 25p, 50p, 75p, £ 1).

3. Place a label on each side of the cube.

Rules of play:

1. One person can play by rolling the cubes and adding up the values on the two sides that turn up.

2. Two or more players can take turns rolling the cubes and adding the sums on paper. A player who rolls a value that equals £ 1 gets an additional turn. Whoever has the highest sum of money after three rounds is the winner.

Other ideas:
Create a money centre. Make a list of various money values. Players roll the cubes, add the values in their heads and circle the sums on the list.

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