The Chore Challenge with “Beat the Clock!”

It’s summertime … the livin’ is easin’ and the house is getting messier by the minute! I hope you have a good system for the kids cleaning up the clutter but here’s a KIDFUN tip we call “Beat the Clock!

A fun gadget right there in your kitchen is the hand-held timer. You know, the one that ticks away each second (well, practically) and has a loud sound when time is up. Challenge the kids to clean up while the timer is ticking. Set it to one minute, for example, for them to get the blocks back in the block box. Keep a chart to see who does it the quickest. Messiness is a minus, though!

Could be that each day of the week you have a Chore Challenge and you keep a chart to see who cleaned up the quickest that week. Then there’s a prize! Should it be an extra ice cream treat? Should it be a little money to spend at the dollar store? You decide, and hopefully your house will stay neat … even in the good ol’ lingering days of summer.