Support your students in building early financial literacy with our engaging Shopping at the Bakery: Counting Dollar Coins Worksheets! This hands-on resource gives young learners meaningful practise recognising coin values and making simple purchases using $1 and $2 coins. With a fun bakery theme, students will enjoy applying their counting skills in a real-world context.

As students work through the worksheets, they will cut and paste the correct number of $1 and $2 coins to show how they would pay for each delicious bakery item. The clear visual layout makes it easy for students to practise matching coins to prices, strengthening both their number sense and money recognition skills. These worksheets also provide an excellent opportunity to reinforce skip counting by 1s and 2s.

Shopping at the Bakery: Counting Dollar Coins Worksheets can be used during whole-class maths lessons, in small groups, or as an independent activity. They are also ideal for use in financial literacy rotations or as a practical maths warm-up. Whether used alongside plastic coins, real coins, or the provided cut-and-paste version, this resource offers a hands-on, engaging way to explore money concepts in an age-appropriate and meaningful way.

Key Learning Outcomes:

• ✅ Recognise and understand the value of $1 and $2 coins
• ✅ Practise representing money values using coins
• ✅ Strengthen skip counting skills by 1s and 2s
• ✅ Develop number sense and money-handling skills
• ✅ Apply financial literacy skills in real-world scenarios

What’s Included:

• Worksheets featuring a variety of bakery items with prices
• Cut-out $1 and $2 coin sheets for hands-on matching
• Clear layout to support independent and guided work

Materials Needed:

• Printed Shopping at the Bakery: Counting Dollar Coins Worksheets
• Scissors
• Glue
• Optional: real or plastic coins for hands-on practise
• Optional: crayons or pencils for coin rubbings

How to Use:

1. Introduce or review $1 and $2 coin values with your class.
2. Model how to use the cut-and-paste coins to represent a total amount.
3. Students look at each bakery item and its price on the worksheet.
4. They cut out the $1 and $2 coins provided and paste the correct number to show how they would pay for each item.
5. Encourage students to count aloud as they work, reinforcing skip counting by 1s or 2s.

Ideas for Classroom Use:

• 💡 Use in small group maths sessions to explore money-handling and counting.
• 💡 Add to financial literacy rotations for targeted practise.
• 💡 Include as a hands-on maths warm-up or early finisher activity.
• 💡 Pair with real or play money to support kinaesthetic learners.
• 💡 Use the worksheets to launch a class discussion about saving, spending, and real-life shopping experiences.

Top Teacher Tips:

• 💛 Provide students with real or plastic coins alongside the worksheets for tactile engagement.
• 💛 Use the coin rubbings option as a creative way to reinforce coin recognition and value.
• 💛 Challenge advanced learners to find multiple ways to make the same amount using only $1 and $2 coins.
• 💛 Set up a classroom bakery role-play and let students “shop” using their cut-out coins and a class bakery menu.

Shopping at the Bakery: Counting Dollar Coins Worksheets is a fun and practical resource that helps students develop money awareness and counting fluency. Perfect for building real-world financial literacy skills in an engaging and meaningful way!