We have a family night each week. It gets confusing to remember who is in charge of what – we used to have a chart, but it was so long ago that 2 of our kids weren’t even on the chart. Time for something new! This was sooo easy – I just whipped it up during naptime this afternoon. I found a spare board and some random washers in our garage and went from there. First, the paint brush I was using had a bunch of black paint still on it, so I painted the edges black so I wouldn’t have to wash too much off the brush. Then I painted the middle green to match my walls. I hot-glued on some washers – I only had a couple of big ones which meant that in some places I needed to use 2. Then I painted on the words – I know vinyl lettering would have looked better, but eh, it gives it that handcrafted look, right?
Now, time to make the tags – grab anything you want and put a magnet on the back. A more polished look would be names on cardstock, but I went with the fun approach. Each child got to choose an animal – you buy these little wood things prepainted at Joanns or Michaels. Super easy. And yes, I’m the elephant with the big booty – and my hubby picked it out! He came back and said “I got an elephant for you” – I just stared at him – really, an elephant?! He offered to switch, but there was no turning back – I like to razz him about it. For magnets you can use anything – I used the self-adhesive magnetic strips.
Stick everyone on in the right place, and voila, done! This is tailored to our family needs, but there are so many possiblilites – chore charts, assigments for family movie night (who picks the movie, treat, etc), etc. Go make yourself one – you can do this!
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Kristine says
Cute and original. Love it!
Goings on at the Glenn's says
cute idea! I may have to use this one with the chore chart idea. Very fun!
Bobbie says
That is such a great idea…Right now we don’t have that problem but I know we will when our baby gets old enough to understand what is going on. I am goign to store this in the back of my brain 🙂
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