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What would you buy with ₹100?
- ·Everyone writes one thing on a slip of paper
- ·No wrong answers — keep the slips for the end
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Needs vs Wants (for schools)
Illustrated deck for classrooms, pairs with our playable Needs vs Wants game.
Children, ages 8–1240 minutes7 slides
Start
What would you buy with ₹100?
- ✳Everyone writes one thing on a slip of paper
- ✳No wrong answers — keep the slips for the end
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Full deck, as text
Read or print every slide — copy it into your own deck, translate it, adapt it freely.
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Idea 1
A need keeps you healthy, safe or learning
- ·Food, water, medicine
- ·A roof and clothes
- ·School books and uniform
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Idea 2
A want makes life more fun
- ·Chocolate, video games, a new cricket bat
- ·Wants are not bad — they are just second in line
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Game
Sort the basket
- ·Rice · pencil · fizzy drink · slippers · sticker sheet · medicine
- ·Two corners of the room: NEED and WANT
- ·Children run to their answer and explain it
Note: The argument over 'slippers' is the best teaching moment in the whole session.
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Idea 3
Needs first, then wants, then save
- ·₹100 = ₹50 needs, ₹30 wants, ₹20 saved
- ·Saving is a tiny bit you keep for later-you
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Story
Meera's cycle
- ·Meera saves ₹10 a week instead of buying chips
- ·In 30 weeks she has ₹300 for a second-hand cycle
- ·Her friend spent the same money and remembers none of it
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Close
Look at your slip again
- ·Is your ₹100 item a need or a want?
- ·Would you change your answer now?
- ·Take home: a savings ladder chart for the fridge