Fine Arts: Visual Arts

K-4 Standard 1: Understanding and Applying Media, Techniques and Processes

• Students use different media, techniques and processes to communicate ideas, experiences and stories.

K-4 Standard 3:Choosing and Evaluating a Range of Subject Matter, Symbols and Ideas

• Students select and use subject matter, symbols and ideas to communicate meaning.

Source: National Standards for Arts Education

Creative Coins help students recognize and learn money concepts with ease. Set up a class store and use these clever manipulatives to demonstrate how to buy and sell objects. Play and learn with Ellison Coins!

Supplies Used: Cardstock, Colored Pencils or Crayons, Glue

The teacher will die-cut the materials for student use prior to the lesson.

1. Die-cut Coins from colored cardstock or construction paper.
   
2. Die-cut president profiles and adhere to corresponding Coins.
   
3. All Coins are relatively proportionate to one another (see Main Photo).