I’d like to introduce a new idea to help organize your home: the Interactive Kid’s Chore Chart Cards! I was previously using a handwritten chore chart, but I kept forgetting to pay my kids for their chores, and they would forget to write down when they completed one. I needed something more visual for everyone, and got this wonderful idea from a woman at my local homeschool mom’s night this month!
Click here to download the Chore Chart Cards
Supplies needed:
- Cardstock (for my printable cards, tickets, etc)
- Pocket Chart similar to the one in the photo.
- Reward Stickers
- Small Prize box (you can make this anything you like)
- NOTE: Pages 24-29 are black and white images if you prefer not to print color.
Instructions for Slots:
1. Card with child’s name
2. – 6. Mon – Fri Chore cards to be completed
7. Reward tickets earned, Sticker Sheets, Best“ Bee-havior” awards
8. Extra Cards can be kept in the bottom slots
Directions for Use:
Put the assigned Monday – Friday task cards in the 2nd – 6th slots. When a task is completed, your child can turn the card backwards and place behind the remaining task cards for the day. (I used one color for each day just to try and keep things straight)
At the end of the day, look to see which tasks are completed and switch them out with reward tickets. At the end of the day or week, allow your child to spend his tickets on items in a small prize box (gum, candy, erasers, pencils, 5 Minutes iphone time etc). Instead of a prize box, you could also choose to let your kids exchange their tickets for money, we pay $0.25/ticket. This way they can save their money for something they want to buy, we also encourage them to tithe and save some of that as well.
If your child completes all the assigned tasks in a day, they receive a sticker on the reward card in the 7th slot. Once that reward card is full, they can exchange it for something more special like larger prize box, I use things like mini-Lego sets, Pet-Shop’s, Polly Pockets, computer time, TV time, Wii Time etc. Really the prizes are up to you.
I also included “Best Bee-havior” cards that you can reward when your child has displayed a good attitude for the entire day, helping others, being kind to siblings, or anything else you deem as outstanding behavior. These are very special for our family and are handed out only for very good behavior. They can be redeemed for something fancier like a trip to ice cream, a sleep over, etc.
If a task is not completed, the child does not earn tickets or stickers. Since my kids are still young, I do not force them to do any chores, it’s fairly optional except for the feeding of our animals.
My Chore Chart download includes all the cards you need for chores, tickets, sticker reward sheets and “Best Bee-havior” cards. I had some friends help me come up with common chores for their households so hopefully there are plenty to choose from. There is also a blank set of cards included so you can write in your child’s names, or specific chores that apply to your home.
I also have a Chore Chart for younger kids that is a little less intimidating and easier to use.
For this one, I just put the chore cards in slot #2 and when your child completes them they move the cards to slot #3. At the end of the day I change the cards out with tickets and put the chore cards for the next day back in slot #2.
Again, if they complete all their tasks for a given day, they get a sticker on the rewards chart in slot #4. They also can earn Best “Bee-havior” tickets as well. This download includes less chore cards, a blank sheet for you to add in your own, Best “Beehavior” cards and colorful tickets.
You can find the small Tabletop Pocket Chart at Lakeshore Learning.
Hope the chore rewards idea works for your family!
Click here to download the Chore Chart for Older Kids
Click here to download the Chore Chart for Young Kids
(TIP: If you are having trouble getting the file to open in your browser window, RIGHT click on the download link, then select “SAVE LINK AS”. You will be prompted to save the file to your hard drive.)
Here’s a great idea from Shining Our Lights for setting up the chart for little ones!
I love how she uses velcro to put the cards on, then replaces them with tickets as chores are completed! Great idea!
I’ve gotten some great emails from you all and would love to see how everyone is using the chart, if you have pictures, make sure to link up so we can see other ways to use it!
I bought the pocket chart and came on to download the cards and they won’t come up. Could you help, please? I am so excited about starting this system! =)
Thanks,
Dana
I was wondering if you could maybe email me the PDFs for both the older and the younger kids. I cant get it to download.
Thank you!!!!
striplingwarrioracademy(at) gmail(dot)com
Thank you so much!! I was so excited to find this. This is just what we need in our family! I can’t get the link to work though, do you have another link?
Thanks!
This is amazing! Thanks so much for all the hard work you put into this. I am so excited to use this with my four kiddos!
This chart system is so great! I tried to pull it up and the link didn’t seem to be working. Do you mind checking? Thanks for sharing these great ideas!
This is amazing! Thank you so much for sharing all of this–it must have been so much work and I really appreciate it. I am definitely going to be making a chart like this for my children. This is the most efficient and organized chore chart I have ever seen and it is easy to change as children grow and chores change. Thank you!!
Thank you! I have been looking for a chore chart to implement for my 5 year (and maybe my 2 year old) Love your blog!!
I can not believe I just stumbled across this. I have been searching for days for a vinyl pocket calendar to put my kids chores in. I envisioned exactly what you have done here. I have never seen anything like it and thought I was being so original. The problem was that I couldn’t find a pocket chart anywhere…until today. I bought one at the teacher supply store, just got home 15 mintues ago and have been looking for pictures to put on my chore cards. I BOUGHT THE SAME POCKET CHART YOU HAVE IN YOUR PICTURE!!! This is so weird- and great. Thank you for doing all of this work so people like me can organize our families too. 🙂
I cannot get your links to work to print the chore charts. I really want to try this one out so any help would be appreciated! Thanks!
This is wonderful!!! Thank you for sharing.