Making Chores Fun

1.    Hide and Seek

Hide treats, stickers, or pennies in, on, or under knickknacks, then ask your child to dust. She gets to enjoy the rewards only when everything is dusted.

2.    Helper of the week Award

Individual list of chores kids can do (one for each child in your family). Whenever your child accomplishes a task, have her mark it with a sticker. Whoever has the most stickers at the end of the week gets the Helper of the Week award. Below mentioned is a link for your reference where you can build your own interesting chore charts with the character your child likes. You can also make certificates for the kids

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3.    Play Go Fishing

Play "Go Fish" with a basket of clean socks. Divide the socks among the players, leaving a pile to draw from. Each player, in turn, holds up a sock and asks another player if he has the mate. If not, the asking player must take a sock from the top of the draw pile. When finished, the player with the most pairs wins.

4.    Beautify Cleaning

Turn any socks that stay single into child-friendly dust mitts. Insert child's hand into clean but dampened sock and use it to remove dust from houseplants and furniture. To introduce fun into chores you cannot have the boring cleaning items and expect the kids to be excited. They have to have interesting dusting pans, mittens, broomsticks etc to make cleaning interesting. Turn a bucket into a personalized cleaning caddy. Use permanent marker to write your child's name on it and have him decorate its with other drawings. Store supplies such as sponge, dustrag and roll of paper towels, etc.

Dusting mittens

Dusting socks

Rubber mittens

Dusting pans

You can invest in a children's cleaning kit, such as the Girls Pink Cleaning play-set Trolley etc

5.    Scavenger hunt

Make a list of everyday items (newspapers, magazine, shoes, etc.). Set a timer for 5 minutes, then have kids collect stray items throughout the house. The winner is the child who picks up the most (and returns them to their rightful spots).

6.    Appoint Inspector Doga

 Appoint an inspector armed with a laundry basket and plastic police badge from the dress-up box, this person roams the house and puts stray belongings into clutter "jail" (the basket). To set an item free, its owner (Mom and Dad included!) must do a chore.

7.    Show me the money

Some experts believe allowances should be reserved for teenagers. School-aged children will easily get behind the idea that chores are something you do as a member of the family — not for money. They'll be excited just to show off their skill at completing a task. However associating money gives them the idea that money has to be earned and doesn’t come free. We have to work hard for earning and no task is big or small.

8.    The tidying speed game

One of the most obvious tidying games is the speed game, whereby you ask your child to do a tidying task and you time them doing it. You can make this a regular weekly game, giving them the opportunity to beat their previous times. Alternatively, siblings or friends can race each other. You could even create a fun scoreboard with star stickers.

9.    Laundry dash

You can either play this game with your child or get siblings to race against each other. Once the laundry has been folded, separate into even piles. The aim of the game is to get your pile of laundry neatly back to where it is supposed to be, such as your t-shirt drawer or their sock drawer. Organizing made fun!

10.   Play-acting

Your kids can show off their acting talents and cleaning prowess both at the same time with a play-acting cleaning game. They can dress up as a butler, cleaner, maid, or even Cinderella, or even super heros to carry out their household chores. You might want to make a fun video of them doing so to make the experience even more enjoyable for them.

11. Dice game

The above are some chore dice sample. You can make your own dice as well. Each number of the dice corresponds to a different household chore. Role the dice and whichever number it lands on, your kid has to carry out the task, whether that be helping wash the car, cleaning the windows or polishing the furniture. You could do the dice game every Saturday morning as the game is unpredictable and fun.

12. Musical statues

Make any household chore more enjoyable for your kids by injecting some music into the situation. Play musical statues with them, and as they are carrying out the task pause the music so they have to freeze in the position they are in. Play the music again so they can continue with the job, and repeat. This is sure to evoke a lot of laughter and excitement. This game is best played with other family members or friends so you can crown the most static winner at the end of the game.

13.                       House chore wheel or dart board

You can make a dart board or a chore wheel to add some fun element to do the chores. Every member aims at the dart and once its picked up then the next chores have to be targeted

I am sure these ideas might make your chores fun and enjoyable……

Keep the fun on!!! Keep Rocking !!!! And Keep Enjoying!!!!!