Chore chart for kids

The small jobs that keep a house going, with pictures, so nobody has to ask twice. Make the bed, clothes in the basket, set the table, clear your plate, feed the pet, water the plants and tidy the room, with a box to tick for every day of the week.

Free, one page, no email needed. Prints fine in black and white.

What's on it

• Make bed, clothes in basket, set the table, clear your plate, feed the pet, water plants, tidy room
• A tick box for every job, Monday to Sunday
• A star to color in for each day that every job got done
• Space for a name and for the time the jobs are done by

How to use it

1. 1 Pick jobs your child can finish on their own, start to end. A bed made a bit lumpy is still a made bed; remaking it in front of them undoes the point.
2. 2 No pet, or no plants? Cross the row out together on the first day. If more than two rows don't fit your house, the blank chart takes your own jobs.
3. 3 Write a time in the "Done by" box: before dinner, or before screens. The chart says what; the clock says by when.
4. 4 Let them tick their own boxes. It is their chart, and ticking is half the fun of a job finished.
5. 5 Stick it in the kitchen, at their eye level. Most of the jobs on it start or end there.
6. 6 Printing one a week is fine. A plastic sleeve and a whiteboard pen saves the paper.

More in the guide: how to make a routine chart that works.