Chore Chart Template

A chore chart is the sheet on the fridge with a child's name on it, and the difference between one that works and one that does not is the size of the boxes. A box a small hand can tick, or draw a star in, or put a sticker on, is a box that gets used. Most of the free ones are a spreadsheet with cartoons. This one is drawn for the fridge: the name at the top, the chores down the side in a size a seven-year-old can read, the seven days across, and boxes two-thirds of an inch across.

The chores are written in. The free version comes with eight sensible ones: make the bed, feed the cat, homework done. The paid version takes yours, in your words, up to twelve, with the name at the top. One person per sheet, on purpose: a chart with three names on it is a chart three people argue about, and a sheet each costs nothing more to print.

The week starts on Monday or Sunday, and there is a line at the top for the week the sheet went up. A reward line at the foot, on a switch, is for the thing the week is working towards, written by the person whose chart it is, which is half the point.

The rows share the page: four chores get tall rows, twelve get shorter ones, and every box stays square enough for a sticker. Six color themes, with a kraft for the chart that looks like it belongs on a fridge and light ink for the one printed every Sunday.

Print it at 100%, not fit to page, on plain copier paper, or on cardstock if it is going to be stuck to a wall for a month. The free version is this design with the sample chores, in the Studio theme, on Letter, with a small credit line at the foot. The paid version carries the name, your chores and your title, all six themes, and comes back in Letter and A4 from one purchase, with a link that works for a year.