Australian Money Game - It's All About the Money! Board Game (Year 1, 2 & 3)

Roll, move, collect — and count your stash! It's All About the Money! is a print-and-play Australian coin board game that turns money practice into the maths rotation your class begs for.

Players race around the board collecting Australian coins as they land on them, dodging the FINED! squares (hand back your highest value coin) and hoping for STEAL! (take a coin from a friend). When the timer goes, everyone tallies their coins on the Count Your Stash sheet and adds up their total — the most money wins. It's coin recognition, comparing values, skip counting and adding, all hidden inside a game kids actually want to replay.

Why teachers love it:

• Real Australian coins — 5c, 10c, 20c, 50c, $1 and $2, drawn in true proportion so students learn the sizes as well as the values
• Works across Year 1, 2 and 3 — younger players recognise and collect, older players add and compare totals; add a second dice or a target total to stretch them
• Built-in recording sheet — the Count Your Stash sheet turns the game into written maths: tally, how many, total value, my total
• Maths rotations-ready — 2–4 players a board, 5–10 minutes a round, and a How to Play page so groups can run it themselves
• Print once, play forever — laminate the board and coin cards, or play with plastic Australian coins

What's included (6 pages, A4):

• How to Play page with set-up, rules and "make it harder" ideas
• The It's All About the Money! game board (prints on A4, or enlarge to A3)
• Coin cut-out sheet — 6 of each coin for the bank
• Count Your Stash recording sheet (black and white, photocopy-friendly)
• Cover and Terms of Use

Perfect for: Year 1, 2 and 3 money units, mixed-ability groups, maths centres, early finishers, relief teaching and homeschool.

Not sure which money game?
See every board game, bingo and partner game side by side — skill, players and prep — in our Australian Money Games collection.

SPECIFICATIONS

Format: PDF, set up for A4 paper. Exactly what's inside is listed above.

Editing: This download is not editable. The PDF is flattened to protect the design.

Printing: Open the file in a PDF reader and choose 'Fit to page' or 'Actual size'. Do a test page on plain paper first — card, colour and black-and-white all print well.

Licence: One classroom, one teacher. Please don't share, resell or post the file online; buy an extra licence for each colleague who wants their own copy.

TECHNICAL SUPPORT

You'll need a PDF reader on your device — the free Adobe Acrobat Reader is the most reliable. Double-click the downloaded file to open it.

If a page shows on screen but won't print properly, open it in Acrobat Reader, choose Print → Advanced → tick 'Print as image'.

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FAQS

Where is my download?
Check your inbox (and junk folder) for the email from Mrs Edgar with your link. You can also log in to your account at mrsedgar.com.au and download it from your order.

It came as a ZIP file — how do I open it?
On a Mac, double-click it. On Windows, right-click and choose 'Extract All'. Your PDFs will be inside.

Can I print in colour or black and white?
Yes. The board and coin cards are designed for colour; the Count Your Stash sheet is black and white for photocopying.

The download won't start on my school computer.
Some school networks block downloads. Try again at home, or right-click the link and choose 'Save link as'.