Grocery Store
Games
Activities to make shopping trips fun
and educational for the kids.
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Food BINGO
Directions:
Bring the Food BINGO game with you to the store to keep your kids
distracted and entertained while you get your shopping done. Your kids
can use the BINGO game card or the blank template (add your family’s
favorite foods). As you place food in your cart, your kids can mark off
each item on the card. To give them extra help, call out some of the
BINGO coordinates as you make your way down the aisles. If they get
BINGO (five in a row across, down or diagonally) before you are
finished shopping, they’ve won!
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Food
B I N G O
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Cereal
Pasta
Yogurt
Pretzels
Carrots
Apples
Eggs
Mac n’ Cheese
Milk
Strawberries
Broccoli
Free
Space
Chicken
Juice
Lettuce
Rice
Cheese
Hot dogs Blueberries Green beans
Peas
Fish sticks
Bread
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Grapes
Popsicles
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Food
B I N G O
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Free
Space
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Guess the Weight
Directions:
During your next supermarket trip, test your child’s knowledge (and
imagination) of fruit and vegetable weights.
To play, ask your child to guess how much three apples, a
pineapple, or another fruit or vegetable purchase might weigh.
Then put the item or items you’re planning to buy on the scale
and see how close your child came.
Mix it up by telling your child the total weight of a fruit or vegetable,
and see whether he or she can guess how many items it will take to
make up that amount. For example, you might say, “We need a pound of
apples. How many apples do you think that will be?”
If playing with older children, relate the questions to simple math. For
example, “The peppers cost a dollar for three pounds. How many
peppers will be a dollar’s worth?”
The Price Is Right
Directions:
As you make your rounds through the aisles, ask
your children to guess the price of the products you
are going to purchase. Whoever gets the closest
price without going over can put that product in
their designated shopping bag or side of the cart. At
check out, the child with the most products is the
winner.
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Hum-a-Song
Directions:
Making music with your kids is a great way to pass the time. Sing or
hum with your kids to keep them distracted and entertained during those
shopping trips or long waits.
To play, take turns with your kids humming a song and see who
can guess the name. Stick to favorites like Old MacDonald, This
Old Man, and other well known children songs. During the
holidays, hum seasonal tunes.
Mix it up by clapping out a tune, and humming a song in a
monotone.
Or try to do a one-note hum-along.
To play, choose a song. Each person hums a single note
alternating turns until the whole song is sung.
Word Jumble
Directions:
This is a great brain-buster game that will keep your little one
entertained so you can get in and out of the grocery
store quickly.
To play, use the aisle signs, product names,
and store displays all around you.
The object of the game is to see how many
words can be made out of the letters on the sign.
The orange juice container, for example,
contains the words “rang,” “ran,” and “ice.”
When you and your child play together, keep
using the same sign until it stumps one of you.
The last player to get a word from the sign is the
winner.
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Shop for a Sentence
Directions:
What can you do to entertain your kids with the thousands of products
in the grocery store? Turn them into sentences, of course.
To play, give your kids a time limit to “collect” words they see
in the aisles. These can include object names, descriptions of
the items they see and hear (such as “brown” for the
bags,“squeaky” for cart wheels, and so on) and actual words
from signs.
When the time’s up, your children use the words they’ve
collected to create as many sentences -- serious or silly -- as
they can.
I’ve Got Your Number
Directions:
Kids won’t think about the skills they’re building, but asking and
answering questions about numbers helps them understand the
characteristics and meanings of numbers.
To play, have your child think of a number. Then try to guess
it by asking 20 or fewer questions.
Once you guess the number, let your child
take a turn as the guesser. For younger
children, start with a lower range of num
bers, such as one to 20 or one to 50.
By putting a limit on the number of questions asked,
your child will exercise reasoning and judgment.
For example, if the number is greater than 50, it’s
better to ask whether the number is greater than 75
than whether it's between 50 and 60.
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Off to the Grocery
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Name __________________________________________________________ Date __________________________
Healthy Food Choices
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Name __________________________________________________________
Date __________________________
Balancing Your Diet
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Name _________________________________________________
Extend Your Thinking
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Critical Thinking
Joanne saw a grocery advertisement in the newspaper
showing the following items.
Daisy Hill Grocery
Regular Price Sale Price
apples
$0.99 per lb
$0.69 per lb
frozen corn
$1.19
$0.99
napkins
$0.70
$0.50
1 gallon of milk
$2.10
$1.85
orange juice
$0.85
$0.75
bread
$1.23
$1.05
margarine
$0.99
$0.79
Joanne needs to buy 1 loaf of bread, 1 gallon of milk,
2 pounds of apples, and margarine.
1. If Joanne buys her groceries from Daisy Hill during
the sale, how much will she pay for all her purchases? __________
2. If the items are not on sale, how much will Joanne spend? __________
3. How much will she save if the items are on sale? __________
__________________________________________________________________________
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5. Joanne decides to add frozen corn to her grocery list.
She has a coupon for $0.35 off. At which store will she
pay the least for her groceries?
__________________________
6. If Joanne buys a gallon of milk and orange
juice on sale, how much would she save?
______________________
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4. Stop and Save offers triple coupons. Their items cost the
same as Daisy Hill regular prices. Joanne has a coupon
for $0.30 off margarine. At which store will she pay the
least for her groceries? How do you know?
Name _________________________________________________
Extend Your Thinking
2-16
Critical Thinking
Joanne saw a grocery advertisement in the newspaper
showing the following items.
Daisy Hill Grocery
Regular Price Sale Price
apples
$0.99 per lb
$0.69 per lb
frozen corn
$1.19
$0.99
napkins
$0.70
$0.50
1 gallon of milk
$2.10
$1.85
orange juice
$0.85
$0.75
bread
$1.23
$1.05
margarine
$0.99
$0.79
Joanne needs to buy 1 loaf of bread, 1 gallon of milk,
2 pounds of apples, and margarine.
1. If Joanne buys her groceries from Daisy Hill during
$5.07
the sale, how much will she pay for all her purchases? __________
$6.30
2. If the items are not on sale, how much will Joanne spend? __________
$1.23
3. How much will she save if the items are on sale? __________
Daisy
Hill; $6.30 – $0.90 (3 ! 0.30 for triple coupons) =
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$5.40, which is still more than Daisy Hill’s sale price.
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5. Joanne decides to add frozen corn to her grocery list.
She has a coupon for $0.35 off. At which store will she
pay the least for her groceries?
Stop and Save
__________________________
6. If Joanne buys a gallon of milk and orange
juice on sale, how much would she save?
$0.35
______________________
Use with pages 90–91.
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4. Stop and Save offers triple coupons. Their items cost the
same as Daisy Hill regular prices. Joanne has a coupon
for $0.30 off margarine. At which store will she pay the
least for her groceries? How do you know?