A penny for your thoughts? How about a penny for your playspace? Have a massive penny drive by placing a penny drive jug at your school, church, beauty salon, deli, office, etc. Those pennies will add up.
Prep Steps:
1. Recruit businesses and organizations to participate in the Playspace Penny Drive.
2. Place jugs in prominent locations. Water jugs work very well.
3. Consider having a penny drive contest. The location that collects the most pennies wins!
4. Set a deadline.
5. Recruit volunteers to collect jugs and roll change.
6. Make a fun playspace sign for your jug.
Materials Needed:
1. Water jugs
2. Coin rolls
Helpful Hints:
• Have classroom penny war! One point is received for every penny in the container.
• Classes may put other coins and paper currency into the containers of OTHER classes. Each silver coin or bill reduces the number of points from that container by the amount of the coin. (e.g. a nickel reduces the points by five, a dime by ten, a dollar by 100, etc...) This is where strategy counts. Have fun with it!
• Containers are emptied and counted daily. The total monetary amount of silver coins and paper currency is deducted from the total number of pennies for the day.
• The totals for all classes are posted daily to encourage friendly competition. The totals can be posted as tallies. A chart, blackboard or whiteboard, in a central location, works well for these postings.
STORY! Ka BOOM! school community partners have absolutely loved (and profited from!) all-school penny wars! Children really enjoy getting involved.
Raised: $$
When: B
Publicity: Low
Volunteers: 15
Challenge: Easy
Audience: 200
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