Family Jobs Chart

from 38 months · 10-15 min · Everyday helper

What you need

Talk about the jobs that get done at home: watering the plants, feeding the cat, putting out the spoons, lining up the shoes.
Make a column for each person in the family, and let your child draw that person's face at the top.
Choose a job for everyone, and let your child draw a picture or a mark for it under each face, including their own.
Stick it up somewhere low and look at it together each day: whose job is whose?

A chart with their own job on it, in their own drawing, puts them on the family team, and their marks tell everyone what to do.

Notice them pointing at their own picture and telling you what their job is.

Pick a job for them that's real and short, like feeding the cat or putting the shoes in a row.

Easier: draw one job for them and one for you

Harder: add a box for each day of the week and let them tick it when a job's done