Learning Resources Money Jar - Pretend and Play Money for Kids, Counting, Bills and Coins, Homeschool, Math Manipulatives, Ages 3+

Great item for my autistic patient to learn. I guess they look so real that someone stole it from my office. I had to buy another one.

This is a great way to teach your young ones. How to count and use money?

These are must haves for any home with children. My kids LOVE playing with money fake or real. This money package is great quality compared to cheaper ones we've found at toy stores and dollar shops. My kids love to play store even at their age (11 and 8). It's a fun way to learn about money. While we are currently using our money to solve money math problems, we will be doing a unit study All About Money to include where money is made, earning, budgeting, saving and sales tax. I would like to teach my children the idea of an envelope system, so this tangible money will be great for those lessons.Pros:Quality printingQuality plasticGreat packagingWhat's not to love about this?Cons:Nothing! My children were excited when their play money arrived!Just in time for us to start homeschool!

A great learning experience.

I absolutely love how easy it is to take this with me on our homeschooling journey it really makes it easier for kids to actually see the money versus just learning from a book. We use this to play store, while learning and I keep it in my travel school bag!Definitely a great Value for the money, and has been durable, and I would purchase again!

I'll be using this to teach my children to count money when we homeschool. For that, it will work well. The bills are, of course paper, so they'll probably be outlasted by the coins. But that's to be expected. Overall, its good quality and good variety.The reason I docked a star is because it's not accurate. I'm lenient on the accuracy of the bills because you don't want to grab one on accident because you are in a rush and get it mixed up with really money. But the coins all have "play money" instead of "In God We Trust." They sacrificed accuracy for political correctness. For homeschool it will not matter. I teach using real money initially and then use the fake money for practice. But I am a former teacher. The use for this set in a classroom would be limited because I could not hand it out to the students and let them look at them while we talked about the details. Real money just isn't the sort of thing you hand out in a classroom. If this was for my previous and future classes, I would send it back. Many companies print play money like this, but because Learning Resources makes educational toys and materials, I would expect higher standards as far as accuracy is concerned.

Money jar came with 6 $100 bills, 5 $50 bills, 15 $20s, 15 $10s, 20 $5s, and 20 $1s. I did not count the coins. I felt like the ink was very faded on the back of the bills, it’s not unusable but did make it kind of hard to see the denominations at a glance. I am very nearsighted so that may be why I noticed it. Bills are life size and not too thick but thicker than other flimsy play money you get at the dollar store.

Great quality, variety, price...I love how realistic the coins and the paper money look. We use them every school day and I have been very impressed at their durability. Great for money practice, teaching fractions and decimals, using as counters; they're super versatile. Highly highly recommend!