How to Use

The Coin Fairy's two-bag system and easy instructions lead to joyful children's learning of math, counting, and saving, fostering a love for these concepts. Our How to Use page instructions are broken into two parts, Level One - Ages 4-5, and Level Two, Ages 6+

Step One

Lost a Tooth!

Place the tooth in one bag and put it under the pillow at night.

Step Two

Swap Pouches

Swap the fairy bag with the tooth under the pillow with the second bag filled with coins. No more fishing around for a tooth while trying not to wake the sleeping child!

Step Three

Let's play

Utilize the STEM Playing Board (Level 1 or 2 depending on skill level) to foster and improve math, counting, and money skills.

Step Four

Track Your Progress

Fill out certificate and use the Tooth Tracker with stickers to record lost teeth.

Step Five

Time to Save!

Once completed, store real coins in the Coin Fairy bank!

_{*** Only with upgraded Coin Fairy Bank set}

Congrats!

Your child is having fun, learning critical math skills and looking forward losing their next tooth!

How to Win

The game takes the timeless tradition of the tooth fairy and turns it into a fun educational experience. It reinforces basic math skills and ultimately the application of those skills to real-life involving money.

This journey weaves several challenging school curriculum goals primarily in the kindergarten through third grade years and can be adapted to evolve with the level of the child. The effort that the child makes during each play is the 'win'!

Have fun and celebrate the progress that you will see!

Level One Goals

Recommended for ages 4-5 years

COIN IDENTIFICATION

COUNTING

COUNTING UP (counting from a value that is not zero)

ADDITION

*Challenge: Skip Counting (skipping a fixed number in accordance with the preceding number ex-5,10,15)

Level Two Goals

Recommended for ages 6+

COIN VALUE

PLACE VALUE

ADDITION USING SKIP COUNTING (skipping a fixed number in accordance with the preceding number ex-5,10,15)

ADDING MONEY 
 
*Challenge: Value of a dollar

Level One Instructions/Objectives

WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD- small parts. Children should be monitored at all times.

Read Objective 1 Blue Box on game board and practice
Follow through Objective 4
End with the Optional Challenge goal

COIN IDENTIFICATION Separate the coins by appearance into piles off the board using color, size, and feel. Talk about the features of the coins.  The penny is the only copper- colored coin. The smallest to largest order is dime, penny, nickel and then quarter. Lastly, review how the coins feel. The edge of the nickel and penny are smooth while the dime and quarter have ridges on the edge. Run the child’s nail or finger gently over the edge of each coin.

COUNTING Place the coins on the board. Starting with pennies, count out loud while placing finger on each coin. Write total in the green box. Repeat for other coins and write totals in colored boxes. This early math skill called one-to-one correspondence teaches the rule of counting.

COUNTING UP Practice counting from a value that is not zero. Start with the number of pennies recorded in the green box and count from that number to include the number of nickels in the next set. For example, if there are 5 pennies on the board and 4 nickels, tell the child we start with a ‘5’ and then count 6, 7, 8, 9 by touching each nickel in the set. This gives the foundation for addition! Practice with the other coin combinations.

ADDITION Add up the total number of coins. For beginners, simply count the total number coins out loud.  For advanced players, follow the play board to add the number of coins in each class using the black squares to arrive at the total in red.

*Challenge: SKIP COUNTING Turn to the Level 2 side. No coins are needed to practice this. Look at the nickel section and count the coin values out loud (ex 5,10,15,20, etc). Practice with the other coins.

Level Two Instructions/Objectives

WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD- small parts. Children should be monitored at all times.

Read Objective 1 Blue Box on game board and practice
Follow through Objective 4
End with the Optional Challenge goal

COIN VALUE Separate the coins by appearance into piles off of the board. Talk about the value of each coin. Example, one nickel is five cents or five pennies.  Continue with each of the other coins.

PLACE VALUE Verbal exercise only! Discuss how to write a money sum.  
$   []   . [] [] Cents
 Dollars 

ADDITION USING SKIP COUNTING Place the coins on the board. Add total penny value and write it in the green box. Use skip counting to total the other coins. Skip counting is a method of counting by skipping a fixed number (ex-5,10,15). The child can lift the last coin to check the answer! Write values in the colored boxes.

ADDING MONEY Use black boxes to add all the coin totals together. Write the final total in red.

*Challenge: VALUE OF A DOLLAR Introduce the value of a dollar. State that 100 cents equal one dollar. Review that each time we count another 100 cents, we increase our dollar value by 1 and the cents value starts over. 

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Early childhood education is vital for future success, and integrating playful elements like the Coin Fairy can make foundational math and money skills both engaging and memorable.