Our 11 year old daughter has an array of things/responsibility's that she has to do daily such as feeding the cat's that she willingly wanted the responsibility for along with keeping her room clean, making her bed, and replacing the trash bag in the kitchen if there is not one already there, on top of getting ready for the day.
Kendall has always dreamed of owning a Persian Kitty. She has seen the pictures of the Persians that I had and of course has heard the stories. She also loves Build A Bear and has quite the collection, along with loving and collecting Littlest Pet Shop everything...... along with her heart of gold and wanting to share everything with her friends we realized it is time that she do some extra things to help around the house to earn extra money to save for some of these things she loves so much.
This really hit home for us as a family when my precious husband brought it to our attention that we had spent almost 300$ last November at Build A Bear as we were on our 2nd visit around Christmas in December! I am just as guilty of loving the little Holiday babies, and I know sometimes I tend to over compensate being that she is our only child.
I've been plagued with "how do I help her get the things she wants without caving in all the time and respecting our financial situation?" With that in mind, regular allowance wasn't cutting the line, it flat out didn't work for us. I have seen many Chore Charts in the store, on Pintrest and just couldn't find things that pertained to us.
Well, I did see a chart on Pintrest for Chores where the idea for using a cookie sheet and making holes in the top to hang with ribbon gave me the idea for how to make one for Kendall.
Here's my tutorial on how I did this and you can pick and choose to make it your own, any way, any chore but very excited about it and she is too! There are a couple of chores that will teach her home skills, responsibility and even 2 that will take away $ for not completing/doing them. Let's take a look!
Yes, I had a can of paint from what project, well, I can't actually remember :) and an old stained cheap jelly roll pan/cookie sheet! So on a relatively warm afternoon I took this outside, lined some news paper onto the ground and sprayed the old cookie tray into a beautiful blue one!
I highly recommend putting the holes in the top to hang with a ribbon before painting! You will see what happened to mine when I repainted from the dust in the later pictures but perfect.... doesn't matter, the goal is to get it up and working to move us along to financial gain/responsibility's nothing more!!!!
I had my husband drill holes in the top so there is no picture, use your imagination and or a hammer an nail, or super glue a picture hanger on the back or have the chart lay flat....
Next, you need to find some magnets that will hold your chores onto your board. I got this pack at Hobby Lobby and they were for another project that I didn't do so I used them for this Chore Chart and for My Valentine Car Bingo, plus, I still have over 1/2 the pack for whatever else I can come up with!
I have vinyl letters from scrap booking that I also used in my Laundry Loot post and now for the $$ Earning Chore Chart. I had my husband drill the holes into the top, picked a fun grosgrain ribbon I had and put it through the holes and tied a bow where it will actually hang. ( this was done after I painted, I warned you before and you will see why in a minute or two!)
So, we have the holes drilled, ribbon in place, the old cookie sheet painted and another piece of scrap book stuff that I thought would be cute glued onto the magnets. I don't have a machine to make all my perfect lettering, don't really have the ink to print everything so plain old hand writing on the ones I want to use for Kendall's board.
So I punched out the shapes I wanted. ( I also had some really cool scrap book paper I thought about ) but went for these as they were a little more sturdy and carefully decided the things my husband and I discussed to put on them, what we wanted her to learn and do and wrote them onto the shapes.
Next, I used the glue gun and put a dot onto a magnet, attached a chore and moved onto the next one until they were all finished. ( we have room for add more in the future also! )
Hung it to see needed a place to put them after they were completed and so with the same ribbon I glued
a completed line onto the board.
I use my Iphone for all my pictures; this is that cool blue even though it looks like yucky pea green!
See the difference? Same one! Anyway, there is the completed line....ribbon....glued down.....
You can see the handwriting, the magnets keep them raised off the board
2 carefully, selected things to do that IF not done will take $$ away!!!
What kid doesn't want to play outside on a good day? That's an easy one!
Bible Scriptures should not be up for discussion and if not completed 1$ will be taken from
all the chores completed.
My husband and I love these as we know our daughter and it is important to understand give and take. Completing a job = pay Not completing a task = losing something
I will say this was her least favorite but is working perfectly.... doing both with a joyful heart!
I sure hope this is something that you want to do for your child or maybe we could even tailor them for ourselves? Your imagination is a gift from God.....use it well and have fun!
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May your day and project be filled with SunShine, Joy and Smiles ...... God bless you!
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