CAP First for Kids Calculator Game and the Kids' Saving Calculator estimate how long it will take to save for a special purchase or to reach a specific savings goal. Once children get used to saving, and realize that with interest they'll end up with even more money, it's only a short hop to investing. Send them to these sites and you'll have a regular Rockefeller on your hands. Investing for Kids is a site designed by kids that examines stocks, bonds, mutual funds and all those other mysterious ways of investing money. A quiz determines how much children know about finances and directs them to the features that will be most helpful.
Games can be a great way to make a child interested in financial matters.
Play Lemonade Stand to learn a few lessons about start-up capital, advertising, and supply and demand. EduStock demonstrates how the stock market works, and what a stock really is and gives the player the opportunity to choose stocks and manage a portfolio. Julia Walker View more articles , lists , questions or trivia .