Homemade craft: Kids behavior chart

ermini2 Level 1

October 15, 2016, 11:12 pm

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Hello everyone! I want to share something with you that my seven year old suggested we try. Her school used a form of behavior chart to monitor each child behavior throughout the day. So, I took her suggestion and ran with it! My kids like to play and yes they get a little crazy so I thought this was a great idea!

After researching ALOT , and finding different ways to make them, I finally came up with my own thing and I started making it! I grabbed a long piece of carboard (about 24 inches long and 8 inches wide) and index cards and started writing and drawing and coloring.
My final piece included 7 index cards taped going vertically on to the cardboard. The top one in purple with really excited smiley face, next one down in pink with an excited face, next one in blue with a really happy face, next(which is where we start off each day) in green with a happy face, orange with a sad face, yellow with a plain face, and red with a mad face! I used clothes pins with their names on it to move to each face through out the day. If they are in purple they get a special treat and if they're in red, they lose a privilege!
It has worked well so far! I will post a picture of my chart tomorrow!

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Lynne

Oh my gosh, you know what it is like you read my mind! I also wrote a blog post on my website about a similar thing about 2 or 3 years ago.

I was struggling with my daughters behavior and emotions when she was a toddler and I made a rewards chart for her. She was like two years old then so we couldn't make it very complicated. We just decorated a piece of paper and I bought gold stars. I would reward anything that was good behavior with a gold star and when she had ten gold stars I would treat her with something.

She started living for gold stars. They became more important than the treat.

I love the idea of rewarding good behavior and now we have proper magnetic rewards charts on our fridge... courtesy of a blog review I did for someone that does personalized reward charts.

Whether you make your own (buckets of fun) or buy one somewhere this is something I recommend every mom makes use of. It can really make such a massive behavior change and it is done in a positive way that makes your kids happy! Bonus!

10 years ago