Looking for budgeting worksheets? Build practical budgeting, personal finance, consumer math, and financial literacy skills with this Family Game Night FREE budgeting worksheet! Students compare prices, calculate totals, make purchasing decisions, and stay within a $37 budget while planning food, drinks, and treats for a fun family game night.

Students choose 4 items from 10 realistic options and create 3 different spending plans, giving them repeated practice with the same essential budgeting process while making different financial choices.

This engaging free budgeting worksheet also supports functional math, money management, calculator skills, financial decision making, and independent living skills through a relatable real-world scenario.

This activity can be used as part of a personal finance curriculum, financial literacy curriculum, consumer math curriculum, functional math curriculum, life skills curriculum, transition program, or adulting made easy program.

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Students Practice

• Budgeting
• Personal Finance
• Consumer Math
• Financial Literacy
• Functional Math
• Money Management
• Comparing Prices
• Addition with Money
• Calculating Totals
• Calculator Skills
• Making Purchasing Decisions
• Financial Decision Making
• Staying Within a Spending Limit
• Creating Multiple Spending Plans
• Independent Living Skills
• Real-World Problem Solving

What's Included?

• 1 Full-Color Family Game Night Budgeting Worksheet
• 10 Food, Drink & Treat Options with Realistic Prices
• $37 Spending Limit
• 4 Items Per Spending Plan
• 3 Different Spending Plans
• Printable PDF
• Resource Recommendation Page

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• Money Management
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This FREE budgeting activity is designed for teens, young adults, and students who benefit from practical, concrete instruction connected to everyday spending decisions. It provides meaningful real-world math practice while supporting a broader personal finance curriculum, financial literacy curriculum, consumer math curriculum, functional math curriculum, life skills program, transition program, or adulting made easy curriculum.