Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Kids and Chores

My desire is to instill good habits of order, cleanliness, and regularity in my children. I also want to keep our home clean and orderly without dedicating an entire day each week to cleaning. With those things in mind, I came up with this chore chart for the kids.

Over the summer, when Target's dollar section was full of school/teacher supplies, I picked up this "classroom card scheduler," though I wasn't sure what I would do with it at the time. So glad I did.

Here is something similar, though it's not $1.


As the kids complete their jobs, they flip over that card. (Hannah's cards are in cursive. Peter's have pictures.) Some days we all forget about the chart, as we have created a good rhythm to our days and each of them does their part out of habit.

(We also have some days that nothing gets done.)

I keep my own daily chore list/to do list on my clipboard (along with my grocery list, menu plan, school lesson plans).


DAILY CHORES

tidy rooms, make beds - Everyone

O O O O O O O

brush hair and teeth - Everyone

O O O O O O O

empty dishwasher – Mom/Dad

O O O O O O O

laundry: wash/dry/fold - Mom

O O O O O O

put folded clothes away – Hannah & Will

O O O O O O

tidy school room/sun room - Everyone

O O O O O O O

set dinner table - Peter

O O O O O O

wipe dinner table - Will

O O O O O O

sweep dining room & kitchen – Hannah

O O O O O O



WEEKLY CHORES


Sunday

____ weekly planning

Monday

____ distribute allowance - Mom

____ kitchen - Mom

____ wipe bathroom sinks - Hannah

____ collect trash - Will

____ help Mom - Peter

____ bring trash cans/recycle to street - Mom/Will

Tuesday

____ dust downstairs, blinds - Mom

____ tidy/organize coat/shoe closet - Hannah

____ sweep school room/closet - Will

____ wipe down school table - Peter

Wednesday

____ dust and tidy bedroom, blinds - Mom

____ dust and tidy bedroom - Hannah

____ dust and tidy bedroom - Will

____ tidy bedroom - Peter

Thursday

____ strip beds - Everyone

____ wash towels/sheets - Mom

____ clean hall bathroom sink/tub - Hannah

____ clean hall bathroom toilet/floors - Will

____ collect towels – Peter

____ meal planning, grocery list - Mom

Friday

____ vacuum whole house – Mom/Dad

____ grocery shopping/errands - Mom

____ wipe down dining table & chairs – Hannah & Peter

____ empty recycle - Will

Saturday

____ clean master bath, half bath – Mom

____ wipe walls, mop (occasionally) - Mom

____ mow/yard – Dad

____ tidy garage – Hannah, Will, & Peter

____ prep/iron church clothes – Mom & Hannah

____ trim kid’s nails - Mom

____ shoes/bibles/etc for church - Mom

____ bills, budget - Mom


Kendra at Preschoolers and Peace has a lot of great resources and downloadable charts. (And she has many more kids to organize in her home!) I adapted her Daily Checklist to also include my weekly to do list.




4 comments:

  1. Thanks for sharing this!

    BTW, You have great handwriting!

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  2. We have our boys helping with some basic chores, but they are the same everyday. Thanks for sharing your chore list - it's given me ideas for other things the boys can help with and not be so monotonous everyday. I just need to be okay with the job being done as well as each boy can accomplish it, not to the standard that I hold myself to...ah, that's the clincher! I CAN let go of perfection for all our sakes!!!

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  3. So funny, I was just thinking about making a chart like this for our kids! I meant to get some poster board at Walmart today and forgot!

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