Ed and Bunny Go Shopping Board Game

Orchard Toys is a leading educational game producer, and their games are ideal for imaginative play, enabling the player to take on the role of customer and act out what they have seen in real life to gain a greater understanding of the world around them. (Orchard Toys, 2021)

That’s why we’ve teamed up to create a board game that allows children to mirror this behaviour to help them to understand some practices that develop financial capability when shopping.

Our Ed and Bunny Going Shopping board game is aimed at children who are beginning to understand financial concepts. The game is designed for all ages to enjoy and children with more advanced money skills may enjoy supporting other children in playing the game.

You may have children in your setting who perhaps either don’t experience going shopping or go shopping for their families. This game can support children to experience shopping through role-play, whilst helping others to improve their everyday life skills, such as recognising and choosing the correct value of coins.

Full instructions are included in the box which explain how to set up and play the game.

The aim of the game is to turn over a shopping item from the middle of the game and see whether it matches an item on your ‘shopping list’. If it matches, find the correct coins from your coin cards and pay Mrs Mole for the item, before putting it on your basket card. If it isn’t on your shopping list, turn it back over and wait until your next turn to have another go.

TOP TIPS:

• Each player has a set of coin cards and shopping list which have the same outline colour. It is important these are set out correctly to ensure the coin cards match the price of the supermarket items on that player’s list. For this reason, we do not recommend using real coins in this game.

• There are two difficulty levels to this game. The coin cards are two sided, with one side showing both the coins and the total sum, and the other showing just the coins. The advanced option requires the player to add up the coins to get the total sum, whereas the beginner option gives this information to the player.

There are no set timings for our Ed and Bunny Go Shopping board game; this will vary depending on factors such as the size of your group, attention and engagement, the difficulty level set on the game and children’s ability levels.