Kindergarten Earning and Spending Money worksheets

About this worksheet

Kindergarten introduces money as something people earn by doing a job, spend on the things a family needs and wants, and keep safe for later. Five- and six-year-olds do not yet read money words or work with amounts, so every answer on this worksheet is a picture: a worker such as a pilot or a farmer, a place such as a shop or a bank, or a thing such as a coin or a jar. The grown-up reads the question out loud and the child points. One question asks who earns money by doing a job, another asks where that worker goes to work, and a third asks where people spend money.

The last questions ask what people pay with, what holds coins that are being saved, and what you push around a shop to carry what you will buy. Needs and wants have their own sheet, so they are not repeated here. None of these questions judge how much money any family has. The goal is simply naming earning, spending and saving with words and pictures a young child already knows.

What your child will learn

• Match a worker to the job they do to earn money
• Tell earning money from spending it
• Know that a bank is a place to keep coins safe
• Name a coin as what people pay with, and a jar as a place to save coins