Australian Money and Civics Printables

Eight Australian money activities

• Australian Coin Values – Match and Colour — Recognise Australia’s six circulating coin denominations and connect dollars with cents.
• Make One Dollar – Coin Combination Challenge — Combine Australian coin values in several valid ways to make exactly one dollar.
• Café Change – Australian Money Worksheet — Subtract whole-dollar practice prices from $10 and check the result by adding.
• Needs, Wants and Choices – Money Sorting Sheet — Discuss needs and wants as a budgeting idea while recognising that context can change a choice.
• Plan a $10 Snack Budget – Printable Money Activity — Select from fictional practice prices, total a purchase and stay within a fixed budget.
• Saving Goal Steps – Kids Money Planner — Break a fictional savings goal into an amount remaining and equal weekly steps.
• Ways to Pay – Cash, Card and Digital Choices — Compare cash, card and digital payments without promoting a product or assuming children make purchases alone.
• Receipt Detective – Australian Money Worksheet — Read a fictional receipt, verify a total and calculate change.

Eight civics and community activities

• Three Levels of Government – Sort the Services — Connect common public responsibilities with federal, state or territory, and local government.
• Who Can Help? – Community Decision Map — Identify a sensible first contact for four fictional community questions.
• How a Federal Bill Becomes Law – Flow Worksheet — Sequence the usual simplified path of a bill through the Australian Parliament.
• Future Voter – Australian Federal Election Steps — Introduce a neutral, simplified sequence for participating in a future federal election.
• Preferential Voting Practice – Fictional House Ballot — Practise numbering every box on a fictional House of Representatives-style ballot in preference order.
• What Does Parliament Do? – Civics Match-Up — Distinguish four central parliamentary activities using concrete examples.
• Design a Better Public Place – Civics Planner — Design a public place around identified users, access, comfort, safety and maintenance.
• Community Proposal Planner – From Issue to Action — Turn a fictional local issue into a specific, respectful and evidence-based proposal.

Use the collection well

Choose one page that connects with a real program question or role-play setup. Use play money and fictional examples, keep political discussion neutral, and never require children to disclose family finances or voting choices. Product pages include answers, adaptations and the official sources used for factual checks.

Build a longer session

Pair a money page with the Mini Café theme or connect a civics page with Future City. Children can then apply the vocabulary through role-play, design or a specific community proposal.