Art Bucks (Grades 2 & Up)

Have you ever used classroom money as behavior incentives for your students? I have been rewarding my good students with art bucks after each art class for 18 years now and this system has really worked for me! At the end of the school year, on the last day of art class, I allow them to bring in their saved art bucks to exchange them for a prize or two! I call it the Art Store and it is quite an exciting and much anticipated event in my school!

Students earn art bucks by following instructions, keeping their volume low, helping each other, sharing, being kind, picking up extra chores like washing the extra dirty brushes or emptying the drying rack, cleaning up their tables and then their neighbors', quietly lining up to leave my room, answering tricky or difficult questions I shoot their way and just by generally being awesome! :)

In middle school, I have even used art bucks as an incentive to pay for an unassigned seat or in other words allow the student to choose where they want to be seated. They could also pay to choose a song to add to the class play list, or pay an art buck to listen to their own music while working on their artwork over headphones.

However way you choose to use these art bucks, I am sure they will add value to your classroom behavior management. If you would like to learn more, be sure to follow me on instagram @nylah.khan and check out my saved highlights under "Art Store".