Printable Chore Chart

What is a chore chart?

A chore chart is a weekly grid that makes housework visible: tasks are listed in rows down the left, the days of the week run across the top, and every completed chore earns a tick in its box. Pinned somewhere shared, it replaces reminding and nagging with a record everyone can see.

Sixteen designs, two layouts

Twelve of the charts above are the classic layout: ten chore rows with a writing line each, seven day columns, and a checkbox in every cell. The other four, in the cute, cat, dog and colorful designs, are the rewards layout: eight bigger rows, a star column on the right to tally the week, and a reward line at the bottom where you write what the stars add up to. Both layouts also print a name line, so in a family each child gets their own sheet in their own design.

Chores that actually fit the grid

The chart works best when the chores are concrete and daily-sized. For a preschooler that means make the bed, feed the pet, put toys away. School-age kids can own real jobs: set the table, empty the dishwasher, pack the school bag, water the plants. Teenagers and adults tend to use the same grid for the recurring load nobody loves: laundry, bathrooms, taking the bins out, cooking nights. Ten rows is deliberate; a chart with twenty chores on it is a list of things that will not happen.

Undated, so one download lasts forever

Nothing on these sheets names a month or a year. You write the week in at the top, which means the same PDF serves every week of every year: print a fresh one each Sunday, or a whole stack at the start of term. Weekends are lightly shaded so the week has a shape, and the English sheets run Sunday to Saturday the way American wall calendars do.

Printing, and what else is here

Every chart is a vector PDF sized for US Letter and A4, so checkboxes stay crisp on any printer and the plain designs photocopy cleanly for a whole class. The printing guide covers margins and paper settings.

A chore chart tracks jobs that repeat; when what you need is to plan the week itself, appointments and dinners and deadlines, that is the weekly calendar, which gives each day a wide band to write in. The blank calendar is the undated month grid, the monthly calendar adds the dates and holidays, and the calendar maker lets you build a custom grid with your own title, Chores included, in about a minute.