Bubble Gum Chore Chart

 I have another chore chart today my ice cream chore chart was for my little girl. My three year old was feeling a little left out so we whipped one out for him.  I'll be honest he likes playing with it but actually doing the chores... not so much.

Every gumball has a chore on the back, I drew pictures for my non readers.

When they get the chore done into the gumball machine they go.

There is plenty of room for storage at the bottom when the chores aren't done.

I used a printable gumball machine coloring page, copied and pasted it into Word and printed it off on some scrapbook paper, you can also add any lettering you would like.

The gumballs are card stock and scrapbook paper circles that I laminated at our local library for cheap, I have an obsession with laminated things!  I used Velcro dots cut in half to attach my gumballs.

Go ahead and make some chore charts and put those little rascals to work for you...it makes cleaning so fun they won't even know they're working.

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Ice Cream Cone Chore Chart

I found this cute little ice cream cone scoop idea on Pinterest and put my own little spin on it.  Instead of putting it on the fridge with magnets we made a laminated sheet with velcro dots and hung it on her door.

Each scoop has a chore on the back and if they can't read a picture

There are velcro dots on the side to hold the scoops when the chores aren't done.

 Just so you know these chores are pretty simple like get dressed, make your bed, brush teeth, pick up toys etc.  She had so many we had to make it tilt over to the side...poor little Cinderella girl.

 You can draw your own or print out these shapes

ice cream cone template

I used scrap book paper and had it laminated at our Library.

Let's Get Organized

Basic Steps To Organizing

Let me start with saying that I am nowhere perfect in this area but writing out some basic steps makes it a little less overwhelming for me.
Step one- Start small!  If you wake up one morning and think to yourself...I'm gonna organize every room, drawer, cupboard in my house... you're going to be completely overwhelmed.  Pick a room, drawer, cupboard for the day and start with that.  Whatever you can handle even if it's just a drawer, slowly but surely you will find you're getting a little more organized.

Step Two- Get Motivated  Do whatever it takes to get yourself started, for instance if you're organizing a playroom...find a bunch of pretty organized playrooms like these... and if that doesn't do the trick turn on an episode of hoarders, works every time!

Step Three- Dejunk

 Get two garbage bags and head on into your room...one bag will be for donations and one for garbage.  A lot of the time disorganized people just plain have way to much stuff and can't keep up with it all...REMEMBER when in doubt throw it out...

JUST JUNK IT!! 



Step Four-A Place for Everything and Everything in it's Place

This is when you can implement some of your pretty ideas you found earlier...brightly colored fun bins, cubbies, bags and most importantly labels... I love labeling things it makes it fun for me and for my kids...if they don't read, label with pictures. 

Make a plan, purchase your bins and do it.

 

Step Five- Don't Be To Hard On Yourself  

 Remember no one is perfect...if you saw my house right now you may wonder "why is she writing this?"  Hey!...I'm organized, I'm just bad at laundry...but really I'm not bad at it I just don't like doing it....at all! 

Organizing is the FUN part! 

You and your kids will find it so much easier to clean an organized cute room than one that's overflowing wih junk.

Craft Day

Our church has a meeting each year where the ladies in the area get together and do some crafting...I am in charge this year and am supposed to come up with some ideas for us to make within about a couple hours or less. 

 

Here are some of my ideas

 

 

 

www.megityshandmade.blogspot.com

 

 

 

www.gingersnapcrafts.com

 

 

 

www.stampinat6213.blogspot.com

 www.sarahortega.com

 

 

www.etsy.com

 

 

These are just a few of my ideas...I am pretty much out of control with pinterest lately, there are soooo many great ideas and tutorials on there.  If you haven't already check pinterest out... it would be well worth your time. 

 

Laundry Room Organization

This is my attempt to keep my laundry room.....well not heaping with mountains of laundry.  If nothing else it makes me happy to look at these cute little named baskets.  It has been working like a charm with my oldest who is six, the other two not so much but someday. 

I found these baskets at walmart for $3.00 a piece, this was much better than anything else I had found so I explained the plan to my cheap very frugal husband what I had in mind and bought them.  It's hard to tell on here but the lighter portion of the tag is a really light blue to match my wall and the rest is gray, I made mine on our basic paint program and printed them out onto a heavy textured cardstock and will probably need to get them laminated before they get destroyed.  I would highly recommend this system for a laundry room, I think it is working really well and the kids can take their own baskets and put them away themselves hooray!