Children's Achievement Chart and Board

Achievement Charts (almost) eliminate nagging for regular morning and evening chores. Nagging and micro-managing is very time consuming and creates a hostile environment where both parent and child are unhappy. It was a place we were at much too often!  Thank goodness this works for us!

Big Sis's Achievement Chart consists of two parts: the actual Achievement Chart...

and an Achievement Board...

The Achievement Board has four brads that act as hooks for tags. One hook is for morning chores to be done, and one hook is for morning chores completed. Another hook is for evening chores to be done, and the last hook if for evening chores completed. 

Big Sis has tags with pictures and words that tell her what her chore is so Mom doesn't have to continually check in with her to see what she has done and what still needs to be done.

She looks through her tags and can decide what order she wants to complete them in (this gives her some autonomy that she enjoys thoroughly). She is given the choice of whether or not to complete all of her chores but she knows which ones are essential and which ones are optional. If she chooses to complete ALL of her chores, this is where the Achievement Chart comes in.

Her Achievement Chart is empty squares that she gets to fill with stickers. She has quite an assortment of stickers to choose from. She has to complete ALL of her chores in the morning AND evening to earn one sticker. Once she has filled a line consisting of seven squares (one full week of completed chores), she gets $1.00. She loves stickers and right now she is very motivated to earn money. She's saving up for a particular Barbie. She also has the opportunity to earn more money by doing Mom's chores or Dad's chores.

Since she gets to choose whether or not to complete all of her chores and she has an incentive that she looks forward to, this eliminates most of the whining about having to do her chores.  It also encourages her to look for other helpful things to do.  However, we do end up counting her money quite often =).

DIY Instructions: The Achievement Chart

This is a simple "Word" document with a table inserted.  WordArt was used to create the title.  If anyone has a hard time creating this worksheet (or any other worksheets posted), just email a request to joshandadriafrates@gmail.com, and we'll send it to you.

DIY Instructions: The Achievement Board

We used a left-over board from our wood flour so the back is grooved...

Dad routered the outside, Mom painted it, put the hanger on the back...

 hammered in some brads, rubbed some appliques on and voila!

DIY Instructions: Tags
The tags are made from cardstock covered in scraps of scrapbook paper with an oval created in Word with the text of the chore in the oval.  We printed those then drew the picture of the chore by hand.  It was too time consuming trying to find pictures in WordArt and none of the pictures we found were very clear.  The oval tags can be emailed as well, but unfortunately, the pictures cannot.  We then glued the oval to the paper which was glued to the cardstock.  We covered them with packaging tape, then punched a hole in the top.