Upcycle: Juice can top into chore magnet.

It seems all the crafting I do these days can be traced back to Pinterest. With all of the fabulous ideas I see, I hardly have time to think of anything new. All I want to do is recreate the things I ogle there! Maybe "creativity" can be my New Year's resolution?

I recently saw some chore magnets on Pinterest that I thought were completely clever - and very necessary in my house. They were pinned from Etsy though and, being the cheap arse I am, I repinned them with a reminder to just make some myself.

One of the other things I saw and loved recently were stamped owl magnets made with the metal lids you find on frozen cans of juice. Check them out here on Grow Creative. So. Darn. Cute.

The two ideas collided in my head this week as my kids asked if I could make them new chore charts. (Ridiculous, I know. Who asks for chore charts!?)

In reality, their "chores" are really just normal things they need to do in the morning and before bed - get dressed, brush your teeth, lay out your clothes types of things. Frustrated with having to do about 99.9% of the real chores in our house, I decided to add a rotating weekly chore for each of them, which is what I put on these magnets. (And, before you call social services, "Clean the bathroom" just entails wiping wayward toothpaste off the sink, putting toothbrushes and toothpaste in the proper place, and putting any dirty clothes in the laundry pile. No scrubbing toilets or anything. I save that little gem for myself.)

So here's what we have. Admittedly, the laminated lists are not my proudest crafting moment, but they do in a pinch and the kids can mark their items off with a dry erase marker. Their real chore just says "weekly chore" since it changes from week to week.

With the new magnets, I just stick them onto the proper list.

These were so simple to make. It took me about 5 minutes, including the time it took to snap photos.

Just take your clean metal lids, print what you want them to say, cut it out and stick them on. I used photo splits to stick the paper to the lids. You don't even need to glue the magnet to the lid because it's metal!

Next I'm planning to make some up with others chores they can do to earn a little bit of money. I'm guessing there's a fine line between "chores" and "child labor"?

This project is linked to: Freestyle Friday |