cute charts rocking my world!

I may be a bit of a nerd, but you already knew that!
I have stayed up way past bedtime in order to create chore charts for the girls.
We have desired to ramp up our chore sharing and start instilling responsibility--not for money but to share care of the home.

I have been meaning to do this for quite a while.
After discovering such an amazing cleaning chart from Clean Mama today, I have been inspired.

Tonight my mission was to find a cute and functional chore chart and make it work for our girls.
I lucked up!
I found THIS cutie patootie chore chart.

Here is how I made this work for us. It is in pdf format, but I used the snapshot tool and pasted it into a Word document. Then I created text boxes (with no fill and no line) to type my text in each of the spaces. I also created light pink circles, with brown lines, and pasted them over the existing circles to reflect the days they are to do those chores (as the girls are not with us all the time.) I suppose you could just print this page out and write in the desired chores, but I wanted it to look a tad more polished. Oh, and I write really big. :)


We are going to start this chore chart this weekend. I will make sure to let you know how it works and any tweaks that I have to make. I am thinking that I will put these in plastic page protectors and use a dry erase marker for each girl to mark when chores are completed (so pages can be used over and over).

I hope they are as excited about these as I am! (wink, wink!!)
Maybe, just maybe, if I can create a cute chart for my workouts it will be even more motivation for me! :)