Craftiness

That title so does not describe me! I spent about 2 hours at the local Hobby Lobby yesterday picking up some baskets for the boys homeschool stuff (I'll blog this later...super fun idea!) and some stuff for our "Chores" jars. We are going to be implementing a new chore system to hopefully streamline our day and help us to end our days happy and joyful and not trying to catch up on chores that didn't get done throughout the day. So I had pulled together a few ideas from different blogs about how they do chores with thier kids. One of my favorites was these adorable chores jars for each kid that you would put craft sticks in. Each craft stick has a different chore on it. Every morning mom takes out and divvies up the chores to be done for each day. As each child completes each chore from their jar, they put it back into the main "chore" jar. So at the end of the day their jars should be empty! Easy peasy right!? The only thing is that I wanted to own this thing. I'm seriously not crafty by any stretch of the imagination, so I used some of their tutorials to get creative!

I picked out a different print of scrap book paper for each kid with a plain colored paper to add for their names. I even picked up one for myself! Now all I need is to get some more cans! Whoops! Didn't think that one through all the way, since we don't eat much from cans anymore! Here are the ones I picked for the boys...Football for BP...Pirates for LP...and planes, trains, and automobiles for J. 

I created our own chores myself and printed them on solid colored paper. I'll have one color for each room in the house and one color for chores they will do daily! 

Mod Podge...oh my new friend! :) I still have a lot to learn about you, but how at 30 years old is this the first time I have every used you! There are quite a few bumps and bubbles in my mod podging, but, hey, this uncreative girl is just happy she has found it! 

Along with the chores we will be implementing an allowance program. They will be getting $1 a week. They will be putting 50% in a "spending" jar, 25% in a "savings" jar and 25% in a "Giving Back To Jesus" jar. It's not exactly the 10% Jesus asks for, but I figure it's just easier right now to do the percentages this way. My kids love to give back so I'm sure they wouldn't mind they are giving more! The deal is that if they don't get their chores done they will have withdrawals taken from their "Spending" and "Savings" jars. We're hoping this cuts back on some complaining with certain tasks! 

See the bubble in the "Chores" jar! ;)