chore chart that happens to be pretty as well. So you can hang it anywhere in your house and not have it be an eyesore.We still have ours and use it everyday……the kids don’t mind doing their chore and still LOVE moving the magnets around
- A 31 1/2″-ish x 11 1/2″-ish wooden board (or shorter or longer depending on how many kiddos you have)
- Black paint
- 8 5″x7″ metal roofing shingles (found at Home Depot or Lowes)
- 4 sheets of scrapbooking paper-cut down to 7″x10″
- E6000 glue
- 1″ square glass tiles-can be found on Etsy
- Super-strong magnets (I used 1/2″)
- Diamond Glaze
Then, using your handy-dandy (and stinky) E6000, glue your shingles down. I used some pavers to make sure they stayed down and are stuck nice and tight.
Then, I printed out the names onto the paper and adhered them with just a few pieces of double stick tape. That way it would be easy to change the paper if I want (for the seasons, or holidays, etc). I made these available here for ya’ll!
Anyhoo, all the regular chores are not optional and they don’t get $$$ to do them, but we thought up a bunch of extra ones that we thought were fair to pay them for. Then, we assigned prices for each one and made up a few rules:
- Each “extra” chore can only be done once per week (so if Maddie already did it, Aislyn can’t do it again the same week),
- We get to assign the first “extra” to each kid (since some are not as popular as others) and then after that one is finished, they can do as many as they want,
- They have to finish their “regular” chores for that day before they can do any “extras” and they have to get permission first.
These ones I made are kinda made for younger kids, so you may need to make up different ones depending on your kids’ ages. And as for “mow the lawn,” we don’t send our 5 and 4-year-olds out to do it alone……it simply means help mow the lawn until they are old enough to do it alone (so, next year
And thanks again Steph for letting me be a part of this!!
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This is so cute and creative. Great job and thanks for sharing!
Erin
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Such a cute chore chart. Love it!
Cute! I love the magnets. Great idea!
ooohhhh…im liking this!
I too am linking this I LOVE it!
So cute! My favorite chore chart I've seen! Thanks for sharing.
This is so clever and so cute! ~Sam
Wow great idea! A chore chart is on my to do list and I LOVE this one. I couldn't get the first etsy link to work as to where you find the magnents and tiles. Do you mind posting it again? Thanks again for the great idea and taking the time to post it.
VERY cute! great tutorial!
Love this idea! Of course, this post really caught my eye because my daughter's name is Aislyn! So it really fit us.
I really like this…what a cute project!
I LOVE this idea, so cute! I just came across your blog tonight and am probably going to be reading it the rest of the night!
I couldn't get the chore magnets link to work. Is there something I'm doing wrong? I'd love to be able to print those out for my kids, thanks!!
Hmmm…. I never tried downloading those magnets, so I am not sure why they arent working! Maybe contact Emily from Not So Idle Hands and see if she can help? Here is her email address:
emilie30@hotmail.com
Standifer Family- hahaha! that's great…..I've only ever heard of 2 others "Aislyn's" in her (slightly over) 4 years, so that's pretty cool
Jen~ here's the store where I got them: http://www.etsy.com/shop/SunAndMoonCraftKits
hla280~ I just e-mailed you the files, so let me know if you have problems……anyone else need the files, feel free to e-mail me here emilie30@hotmail.com
I love this. I tried making something similar by spraying magnetic paint onto clipboards. Everything was fine until I glued scrapbook paper over it. Either the school glue messed it up or my magnets weren't strong enough