Amber this one is for you!

One of mine and Amber Pitt's favorite things to do is to get together and think of ideas. These ideas are anything from what and how to organize things, what goals we should have and how to reach them, & my favorite is when we think of ways on how to keep our houses clean and organized, but more times than not both our houses are a mess, sorry to drag you down with me Amber, but its true on both our parts.... I like to chalk it up as to one more thing we have in common, ha ha ha! Anyway our most recent idea was how to have our kids help and have a daily chore. Being our kids are only 4 and 2 years old we needed something fun and not to hard. So here is what I came up with....

Each side of the jar has their name and the other half of velcro. Inside are some chores with the other side of velco glued on the back of each one, and each day they get to pick one to do. These are just extra, everyday they have to help me clean their rooms and loft before bed. This was just a way to make having chores fun because they change every day. Also they can't get mad if they don't like the task because they picked it... better luck tomorrow.

Some of the chores that are in the jar are: to dust the stairs, empty the dishwasher ( the silverwear and the plastic bowls & plates), to clean up their books in the loft, help fold the laundry ( towels), put all the shoes in the shoe basket, put the pillows on the couch, wipe the bathroom counters down, wipe down their play kitchen set, and to clean up their coloring books and papers.

After each kid pulls out a job they put what it is on their side of the jar, that way they can remember to do it.