First, let me say I am not posting this because it is worthy of posting, but because it was so
cheap and easy! I wanted something inexpensive, durable, portable, easy, and that I could change if I wanted.
I am in desperate need of some organization/help/structure to my/our day. The kids are more than capable of helping out and pulling some of their own weight.
First, I spent a rather lengthy deliberation period gathering my thoughts:
Then, I gathered my supplies:
$ Tree cookie sheets
contact paper (already had)
scrapbook sticker letters (already had)
woodsie star: $2.24 with coupon
magnets: $5.24 with coupon
paint and supplies (already had)
electrical tape (already had)
I placed the contact paper on the cookie sheet, created my lines with electrical tape, and did my word with my sticker letters.
Next, I cut mounting squares and attached the stars to the magnets. Then, I painted the stars and used the same sticker letters for the H and the L.
I have 1 job board for the morning. These are the things I want the kids to do before they come upstairs in the morning (after their Sleep Buddy goes off:). It stays downstairs and is for the both of them. I will hang it with Command Mounting Strips when I decide on the right place. I may end up making another one so they both have one in their rooms.
I listed their To Do list on the left with a Done column on the right. After they complete a task they move a star with their initial to the space provided.
I also made job boards for upstair.
Most of these things they already help me with, but it wasn't consistent, they complained, and I would often just do it myself rather than deal with them.
The 1st 4 jobs are daily jobs. I also created weekly jobs (not attached to the sheet), assigning one job per day, that I will change daily(attached a magnet to it). I plan to laminate the verses and the weekly jobs. I hope it will help Luke to learn the days of the week!
I will keep their weekly jobs on a separate sheet and rotate them in the morning or the night before. I also wrote out several scriptures that I want them to learn that correlate with work, obeying, etc.
Each of the boards are different. They will trade boards on Mondays, therefore changing up their jobs. My intention is to create a time in the day that we do chores/tidy up, which will be when they complete most of their jobs! Helping me unload the dishwasher will depend on what time of day it was ran. Feeding Ellie breakfast, obviously, is a morning job. I hope to give them their sheets at breakfast so they can start marking off what they do.
I recently realized trying to keep the house picked up all day is worthless and a total waste of time. Instead, doing it all at once in the evening, hopefully before dinner, makes more sense.
I usually change my mind with the weather, so I didn't want to spend a whole lot of money on this. As sure as the sun will set tonight, I will change my mind about something tomorrow!
First, I spent a rather lengthy deliberation period gathering my thoughts:
Then, I gathered my supplies:
$ Tree cookie sheets
contact paper (already had)
scrapbook sticker letters (already had)
woodsie star: $2.24 with coupon
magnets: $5.24 with coupon
paint and supplies (already had)
electrical tape (already had)
I placed the contact paper on the cookie sheet, created my lines with electrical tape, and did my word with my sticker letters.
Next, I cut mounting squares and attached the stars to the magnets. Then, I painted the stars and used the same sticker letters for the H and the L.
I have 1 job board for the morning. These are the things I want the kids to do before they come upstairs in the morning (after their Sleep Buddy goes off:). It stays downstairs and is for the both of them. I will hang it with Command Mounting Strips when I decide on the right place. I may end up making another one so they both have one in their rooms.
I listed their To Do list on the left with a Done column on the right. After they complete a task they move a star with their initial to the space provided.
I also made job boards for upstair.
Most of these things they already help me with, but it wasn't consistent, they complained, and I would often just do it myself rather than deal with them.
The 1st 4 jobs are daily jobs. I also created weekly jobs (not attached to the sheet), assigning one job per day, that I will change daily(attached a magnet to it). I plan to laminate the verses and the weekly jobs. I hope it will help Luke to learn the days of the week!
I will keep their weekly jobs on a separate sheet and rotate them in the morning or the night before. I also wrote out several scriptures that I want them to learn that correlate with work, obeying, etc.
Each of the boards are different. They will trade boards on Mondays, therefore changing up their jobs. My intention is to create a time in the day that we do chores/tidy up, which will be when they complete most of their jobs! Helping me unload the dishwasher will depend on what time of day it was ran. Feeding Ellie breakfast, obviously, is a morning job. I hope to give them their sheets at breakfast so they can start marking off what they do.
I recently realized trying to keep the house picked up all day is worthless and a total waste of time. Instead, doing it all at once in the evening, hopefully before dinner, makes more sense.
I usually change my mind with the weather, so I didn't want to spend a whole lot of money on this. As sure as the sun will set tonight, I will change my mind about something tomorrow!
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