Chores for Kids Ages 6-8
If you’re trying to find chores for children ages 6 to 8, you’re in luck– it’s a lot easier to assign chores to young kids at these ages because they can do more! This will help to cultivate a sense of responsibility, and if you start to give them an allowance, it can also provide a way for them to earn a little spending money. However, once your kids get to this age, they may not be as excited about doing chores, so it may be harder to keep them motivated than younger kids.
Read on for some of the age-appropriate chore list I recommend for this young age group!
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Benefits of Chores for Kids
Chores teach responsibility and independence to kids of all ages, and these are important skills to develop in your kiddos’ formative years. For younger children, some chores can be important for developing hand-eye coordination and other skills. Even for your older kids, chores are important because they can help to teach kids important life skills for the world beyond, and teach them how to be self-sufficient as they grow older. And, last but not least, giving your kids appropriate chores at an early age benefits you, too– because it helps you out around the house! After all, the work of a parent is never done.
What Are Good Chores for Kids Aged 6-8?
As I mentioned above, kids who are in elementary school start to lose interest in doing chores, so it may become more of a battle to get your kids involved in chores at this age. A great way to keep them interested is to start offering an allowance– but they have to do their chores in order to earn it! There are plenty of chores that your kids will be capable of doing at 6, 7, or 8 years old, so this is where the possible tasks start to expand and get more varied.
Take a look below at some of the new chores that you will be able to assign to your elementary schoolers.
Collecting Trash and Recycling
Give your kiddos the task of organizing and collecting the trash and recycling from around the house in preparation for your dump runs. This can also involve rinsing out all of the recyclable bottles or containers to get rid of any leftover food. When it’s time to bring everything to the dump, have your kids carry the trash and recycling containers to the car for you, as long as they are strong enough. You can even let them keep the money from bottle returns for some pocket money and as an incentive to do a good job on this particular chore!
Getting the Mail
Getting the mail is one of the quickest chores you can give to your kids. They can hop out of the car as you are coming home from school to grab it, or can snag it when they’re walking home from the bus stop.
A way to make this fun for your kids is to see how fast they can get the mail. Time them from the point where they walk out the door to the time where they get back inside– and tell them to run like the wind! They’ll be racing down the driveway to the mailbox in no time.
Sorting Laundry By Colour
Laundry is one of those tedious household tasks that seem to be never-ending. Here, it’s great to get any help you can get! Your 6-8-year-olds can help to sort laundry into loads by colour when it is laundry day. Teach them which colours go together and how you prefer to sort your laundry, and then you can turn it into an assembly line! They will sort the dirty clothes, and then you can grab a load and put it in the washing machine.
Once the laundry is clean they can help to sort the clean clothes and even put their own laundry away. Sorting laundry does take some time, so this will make the process smoother and faster!
Raking Leaves
Depending on the climate where you live, or the landscaping around your home, you may not have to deal with raking leaves. If you do, though, you know that this is a chore that sucks up a lot of time! If you have more than one kiddo, you can send them all out to rake leaves together. Otherwise, you may want to go out there and help, too, because it can be daunting to do alone, this can be categorized as family chores and you can get the younger siblings involved.
This chore might actually be one of the more fun ones on this list, because your kids can jump into the leaf piles, too– as long as they rake them back up afterwards! Encourage them to have fun in this way so that they are excited to do the chore, instead of complaining.
Pulling Weeds
Like raking leaves, pulling weeds can be a more seasonal chore. In the winter, of course, you won’t need to! During the warmer months, though, this can be a great outside chore for elementary school kids. It may also seem more appealing to them because they get to spend time outside in the sun and in the dirt! And for a child this age, pulling weeds can be kinda fun for them to get them all out of the ground!
Sometimes, at this age, it is all about choosing age-appropriate chores that your child will be excited about to avoid whining and arguments. (But then, the promise of earning an allowance or screen time works pretty well, too.) Reward them with a nice cold glass of lemonade afterwards to help cool off!
Wiping Down the Bathroom
Cleaning the bathrooms is not always a fun task, is it? You can hand part of this off to your kiddos by teaching them to wipe down the bathrooms with spray and paper towels, or with a cleaning wipe– whatever cleaning method you use in your home! This is a good chore because it is pretty easy for your children to see whether or not they have done a good job with the cleaning tools. You will probably still need to go into the bathroom and do certain other tasks, such as cleaning the shower and toilet. These could also be taught to your kiddos later on, though!
Kids love responsibility and To help keep track of your child’s daily or weekly household chores you can incorporate chore charts. a chore chart will keep them motivated and excited to finish their own chores so they can check it off the chart!
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