Grocery Shopping List

OK, I hate grocery shopping. I'll confess, my husband does it most of the time. But sometimes I have to go. And it is even harder when you have to take the kids. Here is an idea to make shopping with your kiddos a bit easier and maybe teach them a bit too. Make shopping into a game. With your preschoolers, make a grocery list using pictures. You can use your grocery store ads. Cut out pictures of items you will be purchasing and paste them on a paper. This allows your children to help find the items. Once they are older, have them add up the price of items. Once they are even older, allow them a set amount to "spend" on some groceries. Allow them to figure out how much they can buy with that amount. The grocery store can be a great place to teach kids about how to be responsible with money.