Chores, anyone?

This was the big challenge for the week at myscrapbooknook.com's contest....here was our challenge....

This is your assignment for the week.

I want you to create 3 pieces.
They must all be alike, but all different. I thought about giving an exact
example- but decided I'd rather see how this was interpreted

Choose a
theme for your week. Choose 3 different projects to follow that theme. The top 5
will get an extra 25 points this week. Everyone else gets 5 points.

The
top 5 will be judged not only on the awesomeness of the projects, but on how the
projects were varied, but still contained a single unifying theme.

Oh my goodness!! What started out as a challenge that I NEVER thought I'd meet, has turned into something PERFECT, useful and much NEEDED for my family and my life right now!!! I am so excited!

I chose the theme of CHORES!!

My first item is an altered clipboard. This clipboard will hang in the kitchen on the side of the pantry. The kids will come here to get their chore assignments (they'll be hanging at the bottom of the clipboard - you'll see in a second). Hanging in the clip part of the clipboard will be a progress chart that will get tossed at the end of each week. Once the chores for the day are done, they get a sticker on the progress chart. At the end of the week, rewards will be given out based on how many stickers were recieved. Then I'll put up a new chart for the new week.

My next item are the chore cards. I got some sturdy plastic baseball card holders and scrapped "mini-layouts" to go inside each one. The inserts are about 2 3/4 inches by 3 1/2 inches. I used my anywhere hole punch to punch a hole in one corner so they can go on and off of a ring.

I made a name card for each of my children with "personal care" chores on the back. The other cards have the chores listed for each room of the house....the daily responsibilities on one side, and the weekly on the other. Each week, I can simply move the cards from ring to ring depending on the assignments I need to make. The rings are hung at the bottom of the clipboard under their name, but when they are doing chores, they can carry the rings with them, so they do not forget any jobs. The nice thing about this system is that it is really easy to add to it when necessary.




All together

And finally, a layout showing my kids and some of the chores they do and what I hope will be the results of all these efforts. The title is from a song we sing at church with the primary children. The journaling is on a hidden tag (just because there wasn't enough room for it out in the open, LOL)


Thanks for looking (you can click on the images for a better view of the projects). I hope it is understandable....I really tried to grasp the idea that Leah gave us.