Super Saturday Crafts!! Chore Chart & Temple Block

Soooooooooo, can you tell I've been busy?

On top of EVERYTHING else that's been going on here, I got sick last night. I'm not talking cute little cough,cough, sniff, sniff

I pucked my brains out!!!

And some other stuff (I think you all know what I mean :(

Well, I feel better today, so I guess it wasn't the flu, probably something I ate. That should teach me to stop eating out of the trash....no matter how thrifty I'm trying to be :)

So, enough with the gross images....onto the fun stuff!

Super Saturday was awesome! I had a great time.....and got to sit around more than usual (yeah, right) since I did my crafts early........ie. the ones I signed up for that other people taught

We'll start out with the temple block, I got the idea from here, but made it a little bigger. And I got the pic from Flickr and added the words in Photoshop.

Here's what you need:

• A 7 1/2"x 7 1/2"x1" block of wood
• Black paint or color of your choice :)
• A 6 1/2"x 6 1/2" piece of scrapbook paper
• A 6"x 6" temple pic (or other pic)

So, paint your block and distress the edges with sandpaper (of course). And ink the edges of your picture. (double, of course).

Apply your paper using either Mod Podge or Tacky glue (I used tacky glue since my paper and photo were pretty thick). Make sure you cover the entire surface with glue or your paper (or pic) may bubble when you apply the finish.

Then, stick on the photo the same way.

Once the glue is dry apply a few coats of Mod Podge to finish or a finishing spray.

Beautiful!!

Now on to the Chore Chart:

•  A 31 1/2"-ish x 11 1/2"-ish wooden board (or shorter or longer depending on how many kiddos you have)
• Black paint
• 8  5"x7" metal roofing shingles (found at Home Depot or Lowes) 
  
• 4 sheets of scrapbooking paper-cut down to 7"x10" 
• E6000 glue 
• 1" square glass tiles-can be found on Etsy 
• Super-strong magnets (I used 1/2") 
• Diamond Glaze

You can make these as long or short as you need, but I wouldn't go over 5 or 6 panels since that would be ginormous! If you have more kiddos, you could make 2 separate 3 or 4 panel charts.

Paint and distress your wood. And go ahead and seal your board with some awesome Krylon "Low odor, clear finish" matte finish.

Then, lay out your metal shingles and arrange them till you're happy.

Then, using your handy-dandy (and stinky) E6000, glue your shingles down. I used some pavers to make sure they stayed down and are stuck nice and tight.

Then, I printed out the names onto the paper and adhered them with just a few pieces of double stick tape. That way it would be easy to change the paper if I want (for the seasons, or holidays, etc). I made these available here for ya'll!

For the magnets, I got some 1" glass tiles and super-strong magnets from here on Etsy or you can go here too. I liked the larger size since there are pictures to help my girls be able to see what the chores are.

I made the cute chore magnets the same way as I showed here.

And I worked soooooooo hard on these cute magnets.....but I am making them available to all of you super-cool peeps here.

Who loves ya!?

Since I did this for SS, there are tons more chores for you to choose from than the ones I have on my chart. I even made a few duplicates since I found 2 different cute pics for a couple of the chores.

So, I'll explain the "extra chores."

Hubby and I don't want to pay our kiddos allowance for chores they should do no matter what..... and we don't want them to think that chores are optional (I don't get say no to laundry or dishes...do I?).

Anyhoo, all the regular chores are not optional and they don't get $$$ to do them, but we thought up a bunch of extra ones that we thought were fair to pay them for. Then, we assigned prices for each one and made up a few rules:

1. Each "extra" chore can only be done once per week (so if Maddie already did it, Aislyn can't do it again the same week), 
2. We get to assign the first "extra" to each kid (since some are not as popular as others) and then after that one is finished, they can do as many as they want, 
3. They have to finish their "regular" chores for that day before they can do any "extras" and they have to get permission first. 

These ones I made are kinda made for younger kids, so you may need to make up different ones depending on your kids' ages. And as for "mow the lawn," we don't send our 5 & 3-year-olds out to do it alone......it simply means help mow the lawn until they are old enough to do it alone (so, next year :)

K, so there you have it. Hope your kiddos don't get mad at me for the chore chart ;)

Have fun!

P.S. Thanks SO much for all of your awesome comments and support over my last post.......I know I've said this before, but

YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME!!!!

We really appreciate all the LOVE and kind words and are SO excited to meet our little girl!!