The Allowance Chart is a special one-week calendar that
is bound like a book. Each day is one full page, and the pages
are made so that you can use dry erase markers on them. (One marker
is included.) You receive four pages of stickers along with your
book. One page of stickers is chore ideas, one has dollar bills
and a few five-dollar bills, and the other two pages are coins
of varying amounts. There are also some sad and happy face stickers.
First you decide how much money you want to give your child the
option of earning each day and assign amounts to different chores.
Place the stickers for the chores he is to do on each page and
money stickers to show what he will earn for each chore. When chores
are done, you can place a smiley face sticker beside them; place
a sad face sticker if the child does not do the chore. There is
a place to show what the total is that the child earned each day
and a place for the child to write notes to himself or a parent
to leave a note of encouragement. At the end of the book is a page
where the child can write the goals that he is saving toward and
keep track of his weekly earnings.
This is a wonderful way to keep track of chores, especially for
very visual children because they are able to see exactly what
they have done and how much money they are earning. This is something
I would like to get a copy of for each of my children to use.