Kids' Responsibility Checklists

With school now out, and not wanting to be a nagging drill sergeant, the kids and I made these new responsibility checklists.  I was inspired by Cally's version.  She was cool enough to give me some helpful hints.

We started with small baking sheets I found at the thrift store for $1.00 each...score!  I let each kiddo help with spray painting the pans.  Even little boy got a turn.

Next, everyone helped to make the magnets.  We raided my button hoard and everyone got a turn at each station:
cutting up the magnet strip

removing the paper strip from the magnets

and hot gluing the magnets to the buttons.   Don't worry, it's a low temp gun. 

Our results thus far:

When the pans were dry and set, I printed out strips of paper with the responsibilities for my big kids, cut them out with some fun scrapbook scissors and decoupaged the paper to the pans.  I purposely put the chores in past tense, to stress that they are to place the button when the task is complete.

For my little ones, I drew pictures and colored them with colored pencils for fun.

The one bummer is that the ink bled a little bit as the paint dried.  I'm still new to decoupage...live and learn. 

I got this far, and realized I didn't know how I was going to hang them.  Enter the lovely E 6000 glue from the cake stand!  I used wire cutters to cut paper clips, and made hangers.  I marked each side down 2" from the top.  I hot glued a dot to hold the clip in place, and then used the E 6000 glue for a permanent hold.

When the glue was dry, I threaded through grosgrain ribbon to make the hanger.  I had wanted to do a cool peg hanger, but I settled for what I had on hand.

And, ta-da!

This week, we begin our new summer routine and use of these checklists.  My plan is to give a token per button.  When we fill the token jar, the kiddos earn a reward like a trip to the bowling alley or a picnic at the park.  Wish us luck!

Linking to:  Super Stinky Boys, Blue Cricket Design, Someday Crafts, Women Who Do It All, and Delicious Ambiguity,  Just a Girl, House of Hepworths,  Somewhat Simple, Night Owl Crafting and Simpsonized Crafts, and A Few of My Favorite Things.

Featured on Someday Crafts, Blue Cricket Design, and Picked Fresh Daily, and Donna Moderna.

My project was picked by Jen!