Coin Rubbings for Presidents Day

Today was Presidents' Day and this is a wonderful activity from our February 5 Day Program for those of you who homeschool or wish to bring a bit of math and history fun into your child's life this week.  

Using Beeswax Block Crayons, rub coins to see the image of each President.  Learn about these particular men.  Talk to children sharing some information and thought-provoking questions during circle time, such as:

• Do you know who the current President is of the United States?
• Which President is on the face of a penny?
• How many Presidents can you guess there have been so far?
• In the United States, we have a President who is the leader of our country.  
• There have been many Presidents before the one we have now.  Our coins have the faces of many previous Presidents on the front of them. 
• Today we will look at the different coins and use our crayons to do coin rubbings to see their faces on our papers.  

This is a fun way to introduce young children to the basic concept of money.  Older children can use the idea to work with addition facts or learn more about which leader is associated with each coin.  

Some more ideas:

Write down an amount and ask your child to rub the correct coins to make the value.

Dictate addition or subtraction facts and have children use coin rubbings to demonstrate the problem and solution. 

Rub coins on paper and cut them out to play store or practice math facts!