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Chore Treasure Station

My daughter despises chore-doing.  It’s like pulling teeth to get her to do something so simple as making her bed or picking up a few toys.  She whines and even groans out loud and tries to bargain her way out of doing them.  Are your kids the same way?

Remember when I created these Chalkboard Chore Charts?  Well it was working really great for the first little while, but the newness of the checking off with a fun chalkboard marker wore off pretty quickly and I realized that she needed some extra motivation to accomplish her assigned work every day.  At least for my daughter, there has to be immediate as well as long-term rewards for doing chores.

Here’s what I came up with…

 

I purchased a cute chicken wire frame from Pick Your Plum a little while ago and decided to put it to use as a little “Chore Treasure Station”.  For each day of the week (up to 6 days…she gets a break on Sunday) that she accomplishes her small tasks around the house, she gets to open the envelope corresponding to that day and claim her small treasure inside.

The prizes are things such as itty bitty toys, mini candies, and coupons for benefits such as “Stay up 15 minutes past bedtime” or “Watch an extra movie”.

Here’s how to make your own.

 

{MATERIALS}
Chicken wire frame
Mini wooden clothespins (I found mine at Hobby Lobby)
Patterned Paper
Baker’s Twine
Vinyl
Tiny Treasures
{INSTRUCTIONS}
Cut your envelopes.  I used my Silhouette Cameo and the “Custom Envelope” from the Silhouette shop.  It includes an envelope insider liner.  The full envelope above measures approximately 4.7″ x 4.7″.

Assemble by first gluing in the liner, then folding the sides and bottom in and gluing.  The above picture is the back view.

Here’s the front view of the envelopes.

Grab your vinyl and cut the numbers.  I used the “Circled” font.

Apply your numbers to the fronts of your envelopes.

Tie some fun baker’s twine around them to spruce them up, if you’d like.

 

 

Grab some little yummy candies,
Fill your mini envelopes with tiny sweet treats or coupon rewards.
Using your mini clothespins, hang the envelopes on the chicken wire.
That’s it!  Now you can reward your kiddos for their good work each day.  🙂  My daughter actually gets excited about doing chores now.———-

The Chore Treasure Station is the perfect companion to the Chalkboard Chore Chart.

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  2. That's a neat idea Christine! You do constantly have to find new ways to get kids to do things - I really enjoy the challenge of finding new ways to make things like chores seem like 'fun' for my kids!

    Thanks for linking to a Round Tuit!
    Hope you have a fabulous week!
    Jill @ Creating my way to Success
    http://www.jembellish.blogspot.com/

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  5. I love this idea! It would work perfectly with my kids and I have a cartridge for my cricut that would work perfectly! Thanks for the idea :)

  6. This idea looks so useful, as well as cute! When you said it was ok to " pin" it , though, which Iovd to do to remember, I'm not sure hod to do it without a little " pin" button. Thank you!!
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