It seems like it hasn’t been too long ago that I felt the intense need to create this family chore board for my sister. She was having a challenge delegating chores and holding family members accountable. Since my niece and nephew were fairly young at the time, my mother was living with them part-time in an effort to help out since both parents worked full-time out of the home. Every day my mother would ask what she could do around the house. I guess my sister felt guilty by asking her to do laundry, make the beds or whatever so she would freeze and say “nothing.’ That’s when I created this as a tool for organization, suggestion, and delegation. I made multiple tags so they could be switched out as needed.
Supplies for family chore board
- Wooden board, 1/2”x6”x24”
- Wooden items: 1/4”x1”x24” strip (cut into 2-3/4” lengths), 1” drawer pulls, 12”-long ornamental molding, 3” oval
- Recycled chipboard, scraps
- Black/white photos of choice
- Flat-backed crystal, 10mm
- Silver metal eyelets
- Brown ribbon, 1 yd.
- Jacquard Products: Lumiere Paints: Metallic Bronze, Crimson, True Gold; Pearl Ex Pigment Powder: Silver
- Ellison Sizzix BigShot Die Cutting Machine and Sizzix Texturz Texture Plate
- Scallop decorative-edge scissors
- Alphabet rubber stamps, 1/2”: serif font, sans-serif font
- Black inkpad
- Sawtooth hanger (or hanger of choice)
- Drill and drill bit
- DecoArt Duraclear Varnish
- Aleene’s: Original Tacky Glue, Liquid Fusion
- scissors, measuring tape or ruler, pencil, sanding block, and tack cloth, paintbrush, newspaper
Instructions for family chore board
1. Sand wooden board and wipe with tack cloth. On a covered work surface, paint board and wooden oval Metallic Bronze. Paint wooden molding Crimson. Paint wooden drawer pulls (one for each family member) Crimson. Paint 2-3/4″ wooden lengths (for chore jobs) True Gold. Let dry.
2. For photo frames, measure and cut 4-1/2″x3-1/2″ rectangles on non-printed side of recycled chipboard. (Designer used recycled cereal box). Cut out desired rectangles (for each family member). Trace 2-1/2″x3-1/4″ rectangle in the center with a pencil. Use scissors to cut out the center rectangle, creating a frame. Trim edges of the frame with scallop decorative-edge scissors.
3. Use embossing plate and die-cut machine to create embossing design on frames. Paint frames Crimson. Dilute Silver powder with varnish to 1:1 ratio. Use mixture to dry brush frames, molding, and drawer pulls.
4. Drill holes in the top of chore job lengths. Use Liquid Fusion to glue eyelets on drilled holes. Stamp names of desired chores on chore job lengths with sans-serif font stamps and black ink.
5. Stamp “family chores” on a painted wooden oval with the serif font and black ink. Apply the Liquid Fusion to glue flat-backed crystal onto the oval. Use Tacky Glue to glue painted molding onto the center of the top of the board. The Tacky Glue is used to glue wooden oval onto the center of molding.
6. Cut black/white photos to fit frames. Use Tacky Glue to glue photos onto the back of frames and photo frames onto the board. Use Tacky Glue to glue drawer pulls onto the board at bottom of frames.
7. Measure and cut ribbon into 8″ lengths. Loop lengths into drilled holes using lark’s head knot. Tie ends in a knot. Hang chore job lengths on knobs. Attach hangar of choice on the back of the board.
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