At the Cider Days event, in the macaroni kid area, New York Life agents volunteered their time and taught kids the power of earning money and helped them start thinking about saving and investing. After earning a $1.00 by rolling dice, children walked away with a coin sleeve to start saving their coins to earn their investible dollars for the future. Pretty fitting considering cider days used to be a way for the community to get together and press apples from family orchards and help a local economy of entrepreneur families. Whether they are planning for college and you are planning for retirement and their college, counting money and investing properly is a family affair. The agents at New York Life can sit down with you (free of charge) to talk about your own individual planning and where your investible dollars might be working best for your family. See the link below to the agents who were investing their time to educate us all.
Here is the game we played so you can play at home and to have these valuable discussions. Enjoy!
1. Roll the dice and collect your winnings.
“Dollar dice” is not a proprietary game created by New York life or its affiliates, this is a game teachers use to count money in math classes. For older students we added that 6 can be adding 4% to their total, for a little challenge. It is also fun to have students imagine making it to $100 instead of $1.00.
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