Blank Chore Charts - Making Your Holidays Easier

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Blank chore charts can be used for many creative purposes beyond simply jotting down chores for your kids to accomplish. They make an easy tool to keep track of your holiday planning, too.

- Make sure you can customize your copy.
There are a ton of chore charts available online. That's the good news. However, for our purposes here, you'll need a blank one that you can easily customize, not one already filled out with chores for preschoolers. Keep that in mind as you search.

- Do a little planning.
What do you want to accomplish this holiday season?

- Decorating.

- Baking.

- Shopping.

- Seasonal events.

- Sending cards.

- Family time.

- Caroling.

- Religious celebrations.

These are all traditional holiday activities; make sure and add your own favorites to the list.

- Be honest with yourself.
Check your personal schedule. What do you have time to do and what can you not fit in? It generally makes for a much better holiday season to schedule a handful of activities you can accomplish and enjoy as opposed to over-scheduling.

- Fill out your blank chore chart.
Assign an activity to a specific day and time on your chore charts (you'll need several weekly chore charts or one monthly chart). Then compare your holiday chore charts with your personal schedule. Does everything fit?

If you wish, also put your holiday schedule on your personal schedule so nothing gets double-booked. However, it's going to be helpful to you to have your separate holiday chore chart hanging in a prominent place where the entire family can see what's going on. This is a great way to get the whole family in the holiday mood.

- Keep notes.
Put an empty folder near your holiday chore charts as a place to keep holiday recipes you find, newspaper clippings on seasonal events, sales on holiday decorations and the like. Then everything is in one place when you're ready to tackle the job.

Using blank chore charts for your holiday planning is a creative way to use a traditional tool to easily help your family get more out of the holiday season. Enjoy!