Learning outcomes: focus on building essential financial literacy: What is a budget? Why is it important? What if it fails?
What age is the right age to learn to create a personal budget? When should you learn to evaluate how to make effective economic decisions and recognize that budgeting may require making choices within financial limits? How about when to learn to understand the value of saving and knowing the importance of setting aside a portion of income for short-term and long-term goals, including unforeseen costs?

If you are looking for an interesting, fun, fast and unusual way to introduce a lesson on financial literacy, whatever the age, this song and video sets out to be humorous, entertaining and to set the scene for discussions and investigations on why we should all understand about smart budget basics.

The worksheet stimulates some basic vocabulary and discussion points and in this time when we are surrounded by businesses and influencers trying to get us all to buy more, more, more, it is important for us all to “Think before we buy!” Can you overcome “The Impulse Monster?”
The link to the video is shown on the information sheet.