Printable chore chart

Seven day columns and a blank label column, with cells large enough for a child to mark confidently.

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Large cells matter more than you would think

The 12 mm cells here are deliberately generous. A young child marking a box with a crayon or a sticker needs a target they can hit, and a chart with cells sized for adult handwriting produces marks that spill across three days and arguments about whether Tuesday was done. If your chart is for a child, err larger than looks necessary on screen.

Few rows, and rows they can read

Three to five chores is the working number. A chart with twelve rows becomes an accusation by Wednesday, and the ones that get skipped teach that the chart is optional. Write tasks as things that are either done or not, since "tidy bedroom" invites negotiation in a way that "bed made" does not. For a pre-reader, draw the task rather than writing it.

Blank beats printed

Pre-filled chore charts sold online assume a household. The reason this one has an empty label column is that your chores, your days and your household are not somebody else's. Fill it in by hand, and change it when it stops matching reality, which will be sooner than you expect. If you want to track your own habits rather than a child's, the monthly tracker has 31 columns.

Printing it accurately

This only measures correctly if your printer doesn't rescale the page. In the print dialog set Scale: 100%, not "Fit to page" or "Shrink oversized pages". If you're not sure it worked, print the calibration page, measure the ruler on it with a real ruler, and it will tell you exactly what your printer is doing to the page.