Am I the only one who has a hard time getting her kids to do simple "chores" like eating breakfast and getting dressed each morning? They have one true chore each week: take the laundry downstairs, clean the bathroom (meaning wipe down the sinks), or set & help clean up the dinner table. Each child keeps a chore for a week, then they switch on Sundays.
Surprisingly it's the smaller things like getting dressed or having their back packs ready for school that seem impossible to accomplish. I tried laminated chore charts where they'd mark off each task with a dry erase marker, but it was messy and the marker was always drying out or disappearing.
Then one day, as I was cleaning out the junk drawer in my kitchen, I came across a wooden nickle drink token that Hubby had brought home from a local bar eons ago. (Also found: random legos, keys from the house we lived in three houses ago, Chuck-E-Cheese tickets, and extremely old chapstick.) But a light bulb went off with the wooden nickle and I immediately ordered some from Etsy. (Search: raw wood circles, unfinished wooden circles, wooden nickles, etc.)
I printed out the kids daily tasks - words for my 6 and 7 year olds, pictures for my 4 year old - and used Mod Podge to stick them on.
You can find loose magnets at any hobby store or Walmart, and I used Tacky Glue to glue them on. It seems to work much better than hot glue.
Now the kids slide the magnets over to the left once they complete a task and slide them all back over to the right at bed time so they can start over again in the morning. Their tasks include things like eat breakfast, get dressed, brush your teeth, check the calendar (for things like Show & Tell, gym class, Girl Scouts), do your homework, read a book, pick out clothes for tomorrow, pack your back pack and pick up toys.
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