Saving Goal Steps – Kids Money Planner

Print, solve and discuss

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A practical Australian money skills activity

Break a fictional savings goal into an amount remaining and equal weekly steps. The printable gives children a specific task, visible response space and enough information to begin without a long educator explanation.

What children do

Solve the worked example, then create a fictional goal and a realistic sequence of equal saving steps.

Prepare and facilitate

Materials: Printed worksheet, pencil and optional colouring tools. Allow about two minutes to print and place the page. The activity usually takes 25 minutes.

Keep the task fictional. Children should not be asked how much money they or their family have.

Keep examples fictional. Do not ask children to share household income, access to money, political preferences, addresses or family voting choices.

Answer guide

• Example: goal $24 − already saved $8 = $16 remaining; $16 ÷ $4 each week = 4 weeks.

Adapt participation

Simpler way to join: Read the task aloud, complete one example together and allow pointing, moving tokens or dictating instead of writing.

More challenge: Make a second plan for the same goal using a different weekly amount and compare the time required.

Learning opportunities

Look for financial vocabulary, calculation, choice-making and explaining a strategy. Ask a child to show a match, calculation, sequence or reason; completion alone is not evidence of understanding.

Useful educator prompts

• What information on the page helps you begin?
• How could you check that match, total or sequence?
• Which part is a fact, and which part is a choice or opinion?

Fact-check sources

• Moneysmart

Printing notes

Print at actual size on A4 paper. The worksheet is ink-friendly and uses simplified diagrams rather than reproductions of banknotes, coins, official ballot papers or government artwork.