I was surprised to see Dummit and Foote's "Abstract algebra" book has a decent amount of basics on representations of finite groups. I believe this was our 2nd year algebra text, when I was an undergraduate. If your university uses this book, it might be cost effective for your students.

When I took a course on representations we used Serre's book. It's quite nice though it sounds like you want something that's a little more rich in examples and exercises.