Kids Chores Weekly by Age

Kids Chores Weekly By Age: A Simple Guide to Age-Appropriate Home Chores.

How much can you reasonably expect a child to help out with at home? Here's a simple guide to weekly chore assignment possibilities for kids - by age.

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Weekly Chores for Ages 3 to 5:

1 Remove clothes from dryer

2 Take clean, folded clothes to his or her room

3 Dust low furniture

4 Help fold laundry

5 Help prepare papers for recycling

Weekly Chores for Ages 6 to 9:

Previous chores, plus:

1 Put away groceries

2 Tidy bedroom

3 Sweep floors

4 Shake area rugs, depending on size

5 Water plants

6 Empty waste baskets

7 Prepare recyclables for pickup

8 Take hampers to laundry room

9 Fold simple laundry items

10 Scoop and clean out the litter box

11 Dust furniture and shelves

Weekly Chores for Ages 10 to 13:

Previous chores, plus:

1 Disinfect kitchen and bathroom countertops

2 Surface-clean the fridge

3 Clean telephones, computer and TV screens, video-game controllers, and remote controls

4 Sort, wash and fold laundry

5 Wipe chrome fixtures and mirrors clean and polish them

6 Vacuum floors and carpet

7 Mop floors and damp-mop wood floors

8 Take trash and recycling containers to curb

9 Clean fish-reptile aquarium.