Economics for Kids
Free Online Games and Activities

This page is full of free games, activities, cartoons, and quizzes for kids. Learning about economics can save you a whole bunch trouble and someday might even make you a whole bunch of money. Have fun!

Producers and Consumers Games

• Consumers and Producers cartoon video

• Producers and Consumers Economics, interactive

• Whack a Mole that are Producers (interactive)

• Producers and Consumers game

Consumerism and Consumption Games

• Baamboozle Consumerism interactive

• Consumerism Quiz interactive online

• Quick Trivia Consumerism

• Consumption Games

Goods and Services Games

• Goods and Services cartoon video

• Economics Goods and Services

• Goods or Service - Gameshow, Spin the Wheel, Open the Box games

• Economics Goods and Services Quiz, interactive

Needs and Wants Games

• Save and Spend Challenge Game (needs and wants)

• Needs and Wants Game - Drag and Drop

• Needs and Wants Game - Whack a Mole

• Needs and Wants Game - Where do these belong? 

• Economics Maze Chase

Supply and Demand Games

• Supply and Demand Interactive (flash cards, concentration, matching)

• Supply and Demand Basics

• Supply and Demand Scenarios games (Spin the Wheel, Open the Box)

• Interactive Practice: Supply and Demand (seasonal, price ceilings, shifts, and more)

Scarcity and Opportunity Games

• Scarcity and Opportunity YouTube cartoon

• Scarcity and Opportunity Cost Flash Card game

• Scarcity and Opportunity - Drag and Drop, Find the Match, Gameshow,  Quiz games

Money and Banking Games

• Escape from Barter Island (cartoon game)

• The Vault - Understanding Money game

• Money Magic - budgeting game

• Let's Deal - Budget game

• Balance My Budget game

• Money Trail Game

• What Makes Something Useful as Money? (cartoon videos, St Louis Fed)

• Super Squad - Bartering game

      Ages 5-11 games

• Treasury Direct Kids

• The US Mint - Coin Classroom

• Peter Pig's Money Counter

• Wise Pockets

      Ages 11-18 games

• The Payoff

• Spent

• STAX

• Plan'it Prom

• The Stock Market Game

• History of Money (ancient history)

Credit-Debit Games

• Shady Sam Loan Shark (interactive game)

• Credit Clash game - online, interactive

• Hit the Road - a financial adventure, online, interactive

• The Uber Game - Can You Make It?

• What is debit?

• How many years will it take to pay off a credit card?
  (use this site's calculator)

Budget Games

• Balance My Budget Game

• Budgets, Budgets, and More Budgets - Flash Cards, Concentration Game, Matching Game, Word Search Game

• Budget Interactive Games

Personal Finance Games

• Great Minds Think (online free cartoon game, personal finance)

• Credit Clash - Personal Finances game

• Hit the Road - a Financial Adventure

• Play Money Magic

• Personal Finances - Financial Football

• 18 Financial Literacy Games

Investment Games

• Investing for Kids (cartoon video)

• Treasury Direct

• Saving and Investing, Mutual Funds - matching, concentration, flash cards

• Introduction to Stocks, Basics for Beginners (cartoon video)

• Bonds and Other Financial Assets

• The Stock Market, Futures - matching

• What is the stock exchange and how does it work ( a 2-minute education cartoon video)

• The Stock Market and You game

• The stock trading floor game

Entrepreneurship Games

• Babysitting: The Business

• Whack the Mole -  What Makes a Good Entrepreneur?

• Open the Box game

• Gameshow Quiz - Entrepreneurship

• Entrepreneurs Anagrams (difficult, unless you have a knack for anagrams, good luck!) 

Taxation Games

• Welcome to the Tax Game (from Glendale Ed

• Super Squad - Why we pay taxes games

• The Whys of Taxes - Activities for Students from the IRS, interactive, many, by grade

• Dragon Tax Return Simulator (you might want to read the simple directions, or you are going to lose!)

• The Audit - Investigator Game

• Tax Command

• Taxing on the Mind - Be careful! Don't get fired!

• Etts commits tax evasion game

And More 

• High School/College: Classroom Games for Teaching Economics (free, nothing to install, directions are online, but the games are designed for the classroom)

Economics For Teachers:

YouTube - Needs and Wants, Supply and Demand, Producers and Consumers, Money and Finance, Saving and Spending, Economic Definitions for Kids, Scarcity and Choice, What is Economics, and more

Economics Free Use K-12 Lesson Plans, Classroom Activities, Simulations, Classroom Games

Free to Use Original Clipart for Economics for Kids and Teachers

Economics:
Free Jeopardy Presentations in PowerPoint format