Cart Captain: your child's first grocery mission
One snack list, a $10 budget, and Cappy the Cart riding along. Across 33 screen-free pages, your child counts coins, reads real price tags, compares prices, keeps a snack total, protects the budget, and counts the change at checkout — a full first trip to the grocery store, told as one story. Built for grades 2–3, it's Step 1 of the grocery journey, before Grocery Cart Missions (grades 4–5).
Skills your child practices
What’s inside
- Count the Coins — meet the coins and count money (10 pages)
- My First Grocery Trip — the $10 movie-night mission: shop, pay, count change (19 pages)
- Bonus pages — vocab word search, cash-register practice, Coupon Clippers, Sleepover Snack Run, store scavenger hunt (Bonus)
- Money Word Flashcards — key terms, full-pack exclusive (Bonus)
- Grown-up guide + complete answer key — zero prep required (Included)
How to use it
Print the pack, grab some play coins, and let your child drive the cart. It works as a weekend project, one concept at a time across a week, or paired with a real grocery trip — kids love spotting the same price tags in the store. The grown-up guide (zero prep) explains every concept in plain English, and the complete answer key means you'll never get stuck.
Questions? Answers.
How do I get my pack after buying?
Right after checkout you’ll get a download link. Click it, save the PDF, and print at home — the whole thing takes about two minutes.
What ages is this for?
Grades 2–3 (ages 7–9). Confident 1st graders can start with guidance.
What’s the difference between the full pack and the minis?
The full pack includes both minis plus exclusive bonus pages — a vocab word search, cash-register change practice, three bonus missions, and flashcards — that aren’t sold separately.
What math skills does Cart Captain teach?
Counting coins and money, reading price tags, comparing prices, adding simple totals within 100, budgeting with $10, and making simple change — all mapped to grade-level standards in the grown-up guide.
Can I print it more than once?
Yes! Buy once and the files are yours — print for your family or your classroom as many times as you like. Just save the PDFs somewhere safe: your download link works for 7 days and up to 5 download visits.