Finding a chore chart for kids can be an overwhelming task. What jobs are age-appropriate? Can I have my kid do more than one job?
Good news! Even at a young age, our kids can lend a hand with various household chores. Assigning chores to kids gives a sense of responsibility and contribution to their family. This bundle not only includes a chore chart that can be modified to help your family, it also includes 3 other habit-building charts. We created a kindness chart to help remind our kids how kind they are. You can grab it for free below too.
In this bundle, you also get a reading chart and a boredom buster. Below you can read about some ideas on how to use these additional charts in your home.
We created this bundle with our kids in mind. We thought it would work for your kids too!
Let’s take a quick tour of this bundle.
Chore Chart for Kids
Our job chart is simple enough to use that our preschoolers can use it independently. Yet, it provides enough chores that you can feel like your kids are really helping around the house. The hope is for our kids to be intrinsically motivated as they check off each job. Then they can have a sense of pride in their home and themselves as they finish their chores each day.
To further set you up for success, we have three options for our kids' chore chart.
Children's Chore Chart
Print Ready
We've got a print-ready version that divides tasks into three sections: Morning, Afternoon, and Evening. It's the perfect solution to make chores feel less like a daunting list and more manageable throughout the day.
Each section conveniently accommodates seven jobs, and we provide 3 pages of different job icons to add to your chore chart. We recommend including a variety, balancing some more time-consuming or challenging tasks with others, and ensuring a well-rounded schedule throughout the day.
One of the optional job icons included is called Daily Extra. It is an optional addition to our Chore Chart for kids. We know that chores often times rotate each day to ensure that bigger chores get accomplished at least once a week. To make managing this easier, we have included our Daily Extra chart that coordinates with our Chore Chart! It has a bigger chore to do each day as well as space for up to fourteen optional, bonus chores that the kids can choose to do when their Chore Chart is complete! These bonus chores could be in exchange for money or additional privileges.
The great thing about many of these chore icons that we included is that they can be started when your kids are young (although they may need supervision) and as they grow they will become more independent.
Ideas for Using the Print-Ready Version
Here are two different options for setting up and using the print-ready version of the Chore Chart for kids.
- Print the Chore Chart and the chore icons. Cut out the icons and glue the chosen ones onto your Chore Chart. Extend the lifespan of your chart by laminating it, guaranteeing durability against the little hands that use it. Kids can mark their completed tasks using a wet-erase marker for easy tracking and reusability.
- Print out the Chore Chart paper and give it extra durability by laminating it. Next, print and carefully cut out the chore icons, laminating each one individually. Attach them to the Chore Chart using velcro, repositionable glue, or magnets. This flexible approach enables you to adjust the listed chores regularly, whether on a daily, monthly, or as-needed basis as your child grows.
Laminator
Velcro Dots
Wet-Erase Markers
Customize and Print with Canva
The next option offered in our chore chart for kids bundle is an editable Canva template. This way you can use our chore icons and build a chore chart printable that works for your family! Simply follow the easy directions in the file. Drag and drop the icons to set up your perfect chore chart and print. After printing, you can laminate it. Then, it is ready to use! You can even make a different chart per child in your family.
How do we use this?
As we use this job chart in each of our houses, it looks a little bit different.
“I printed off a job chart for each of my boys. Then I put it in a sheet protector. It is kept on the side of our fridge. That way we can always find it and it is in a place that we see it often. We use a wet-erase marker to check off their chores each day. That is all they need to motivate them to do their chores most days.
We try to accomplish all of the morning chores before school, which is easy because most of them are things they have to do before we leave the house. This helps them start the day feeling accomplished! Then they are more motivated to help later in the day with their afternoon and evening chores.”
-Sami
“At my house, I printed these on cardstock and laminated them. Then I put them on clipboards and hung them in my girls’ closet. My girls use dry-erase markers to check off their chores each day.
My oldest especially loves crossing the chores off her list. I love that my kids have a solid morning routine and they know what to get started on without any direction from me. It’s been fantastic!”
-Lindzi
This Chore Chart for Kids not only helps our kids to contribute meaningfully to our homes but also to take on some responsibilities independently.
Icons only
You can purchase a bundle of the icons we made for our Chore Chart separately. This option is for ultimate flexibility. This way, you can create a chore chart that matches the flow and routine of your home!
Chore Chart Icons
When we used our chart this way, we bought a magnetic strip and these wooden magnets. We printed the icons on clear label paper and placed them on the magnets. We also got a bin like this to put the extra or completed chores in.
Every night, as our bedtime routine, we set up the chores for the next day. The next day, as the kids complete their chores they place them in the bin.
Magnetic Strip
1.5" Wood Cutout Circles Chips
Magnetic Dots
Small Storage Organizer
Clear Sticker Paper
Chore Chart Bundle Extras
We believe there are many great habits to help our kids develop. We want them to grow into well-rounded individuals. So in addition to chore charts, in this bundle, we added more.
We created a kindness chart to help our kids visually see how they can be kind to one another and make a difference in the world. This is a free printable below. There are also some great ideas on how to use it in your home!
We also added a reading chart and a boredom buster. The reading chart can be used by anyone. Creating a habit of reading is important to each of our families. And the boredom buster? It helps our kids come up with creative solutions to their problems—boredom.
We created these bundle add-ons to help our family add in these habits as well as doing chores around the house. We hope they can help your family too. We also love how they all match and have a cohesive look between the pages.
100 Acts of Kindness Chart
Having a kind child is every parent’s dream. Teaching them to choose to be kind is the first step.
This fun chart is a motivating practice to help your child focus on being kind. The best part — it’s free. You can grab your free printable of the kindness chart right now or it is included in our Chore Chart for Kids Bundle.
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Hang it in your kid's room, or in a gathering area. Kick off the kindness chart with a family meeting talking about being kind to one another and helping others. Give some examples of going out of your way to be kind.
You could read a book to your family about kindness. We have gathered a list of our favorite books about kindness here. Or you could make it a fun family book club and read The Hundred Dresses together.
Our Favorite Kindness Books
The Hundred Dress Book Club
Either way, introducing the kindness chart with a family meeting will add more meaning to this chart! Plan an activity or treat after they reach 100 hearts!
Kindness Activity Ideas
Some activities that are fun and continue to encourage kindness are:
- Make cookies (or a treat) as a family and deliver them to neighbors. Have your kids be sneaky and try to secretly deliver them without getting caught.
- Decorate notes with kind words and put them on car windshields or people’s doors.
- Paint rocks and drop them in people’s rock gardens.
- Find a service project you can do as a family and make a day out of the reward! You can either do one for a neighbor, check with a community center, or check out justserve.org for ideas.
Then let your child color in or put a sticker on each heart when they do something kind. We have done this a couple of different ways with our families.
How do we use this?
“I hung my kindness chart in the hallway between my kid’s rooms. I watch for a spontaneous act of kindness, then tell my kids how kind their actions are and let them put a sticker on the chart.”
- Makenzie
“For our kindness chart, we hung it up using this banner hanger. It hangs in my girls’ room as part of their command center. When they do something kind, they get to color a heart on their chart.”
-Lindzi
Helping our kids focus on being kind has been a wonderful experience! Our kids love to see their progress. They also love the feeling. They are always so proud to put a sticker on the chart after doing something kind!
Reading Chart
A favorite activity in our families is reading. The adults love reading, but the kids love to read too! There are so many ways to use this reading chart!
It is always a good time to begin a reading goal. Between the six of us, we have many different ways we use this chart.
How do we use this?
“My daughter got a sheet from her school that outlines different categories of books with the total goal of reading 100 books in the school year.
So, for example, 15 fiction books, 15 nonfiction, 5 poetry, 1 without words, 5 historical books, 4 chapter books, etc.
I like pairing it with the reading chart because then she can mark off each book as she reads (because on the other chart from school, she needs to accomplish different amounts before crossing it off). I feel like they pair super well together and also show her how she is doing on the overall goal of 100 books.”
-Kristin
"One of my kiddos is trying her very best to reach the grade-level target of reading 80 words per minute. To practice we are reading short 100-word passages. During her daily reading practice if she reads 80 words per minute she earns a star at the top of her paper. After she gets five stars she gets to cross off one of the books on the reading chart. We set different benchmarks along the way to earn special rewards. For example, after crossing off 10 books we celebrated with ice cream. The next milestone of 20 more books will earn bowling. The reading chart has kept her really motivated and easy to see how close she is to her goal."
-Sarah
“My kids and I read books a lot. Many times a day. We used to use this chart to track which books we are reading every day. I have 2 charts printed; one for me and one for my kids. Whenever we read a book, I write down the title in my chart and my kids put a sticker on their chart! When we read 100 books, I am going to let my boys pick out a new book of their choice!”
- Sami
“We have a pretty extensive picture book library at our house, and we put it to good use! We love all the different subjects we can learn about. We love the heartfelt stories that teach a good lesson. We love the silly rhyming books that are fun to read on repeat. But the most important benefit of reading books together at this point (in my opinion), is that my kids are learning to love books.”
- Makenzie
Boredom Buster Chart
Ever find yourself exhausted by your kids constantly complaining about boredom? We've got a fix for that! Just print our Activity Ideas chart and dice. Now, when your kid starts with the "I'm bored" routine, they can roll the dice and pick from three fun options!
No more struggling to come up with stuff to do – our chart is packed with so many different ideas.
This takes the pressure off you to be the constant idea generator and adds some spontaneity to their day. With this chart, those "bored" moments become chances for your kids to explore and enjoy their free time. It's an easy way to spark their creativity and keep them entertained! While still giving your kids the choice, making each activity seem like their idea.
Chore Chart for Kids Bundle
Our Chore Chart for Kids Bundle is designed with kids in mind. It offers practical solutions to common parenting challenges. From the Chore Chart to the kindness chart, each piece of this bundle brings something extra to our homes. The reading chart encourages a love for books. It also provides a visual way to track reading goals. Lastly, the boredom buster chart turns moments into a fun decision-making game, making sure your kids stay busy. We hope this bundle adds value to your family life and brings joy to both parents and children alike. Here’s to happy homes and thriving kids!
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