Chore Chart

I have been trying to find a solution to get my kids to be accountable, and do their part to help out.
This is really hard to teach a 7,8, and almost 10 yr old to understand sometimes. They mean well at the beginning but always end up losing interest super fast.

Well while I was killing time one afternoon on my new obsession Pinterest. (Look for my button on the my side bar)
Here is the one that I was looking at…

Source: makingahome-pa.blogspot.com via Monica on Pinterest

I then took that idea and made one for us..
Here is the we came up with!  
Picking out the fabric….

All done sewing….

With chores in them….

As you can see we made ours a bit differently. I need to put the kids first initial on there, so they know who’s is who’s… and maybe put chore chart across it.
I have started with a few chores, we are going to add to it a bit, as we go..
I was at a loss to as to what to use to hang it, cause I didn’t have any heavy duty magnets. Then as I was hanging up the kids clothes, it came to me.  A pants hanger from the store!!! Prefect!

Here is Middle Monkey showing you how the hanger works…

I’ll let you know how this one pans out for us. So far, so good!

Rainy day fun:

 

Today has been for the most part rainy off and on… So we really haven’t dared to go outside for to long. So I dug out a standby for days just like this. It was a craft I picked up at Target for $1! I always search their dollar spot for some cool crafty items for days just like this one… This one kinda served as a double duty. We did a bit of learning first.

We made a necklace and bracelet out of foam shapes. However, first we sorted them into shapes, and then we learned about patterns, before finally making the craft. The girls had fun with this and we got a bit of learning in on the side.

here is Rach with her necklace, she made using a pattern

Here is sage’s bracelet… she decided to just go with different shapes and colors!

Can’t get any better than that right? What is your favorite Rainy day activity?

Wonderful find:

 

One day we decided to stop into the Dollar Tree and see what nice buys we could find for the day. I also wanted to get some art supplies for the girls, as we needed to stock up on our “Rainy Day” crafts.

While wandering down one of the isles, I stumbled across this cute bag, and normally I’m like they are to cheesy it will just fall apart… but this one was made of that nice plastic that is washable…if you happen to spill something on it. It has three small pockets along the front, and had velcro to help hold the big pocket closed.. Plus it had an adorable monkey on the front. I know wish I had picked up two. I may return to see if they have anymore left. (don’t you hate it when you kick yourself later for not buying a couple, I mean after all it was only a dollar)

My plans for this bag?? Well, we are forever going to appointments, or car rides and pulling our hair out cause the kids are driving us crazy and bored. So they want to run, jump, or just whine. Therefore, I have decided to use this as our activity bag for on the go… I am going to stock it with a couple coloring books, crayons, book or two (Hunter likes to read when we are waiting on Doc’s) a few smaller toys, and sometimes maybe the gameboy. (not often, as I like them to use their imaginations) What do you use?? I’m always up for more ideas, so I can change out the bag every once and awhile, so they don’t get bored with the stuff. So please leave me a comment telling me what you have in your on the go bag???