Printable Chore Chart
Build a weekly chore chart for your household and print it on one sheet: every name down the side, the seven days across, and the job written in the square it belongs to. Add up to 8 people with their ages, pick chores from a library of 62 grouped by age, and let it rotate week by week. Free, editable, no signup.
4 people, 12 chores
Prints on 1 sheet.
Each job goes to whoever is in its own age band, and stays there.
Week beginning 31 August 2026.
Five boxes on the right of every row, for whatever you count in.
Who is on the chart
Names and ages. The age is what decides which chores the library offers each person and, when the chart rotates, which jobs can land on them at all — up to 8 people.
The chores on this week's chart
Tick what belongs on the chart and choose the days it falls on. The list opens with a starter set; the whole library sits under it, grouped by the age each job is usually started at.
What prints
These are the sheets themselves, not a preview of them. The chart is one page at any size this tool will let you build; the reference sheet is one page always.
Our week — Chore chart
| Who | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nadia41 | Cook dinner | Cook dinner | Cook dinner | Cook dinner | Cook dinner | Cook dinner | Plan the week's meals Cook dinner |
| Marcus38 | Wash up after dinner | Wash up after dinner | Wash up after dinner | Wash up after dinner | Wash up after dinner | Do the main grocery shop Wash up after dinner | Wash up after dinner |
| Amara11 | Cook a simple meal | Vacuum the living room | Run a full load of laundry Clean the bathroom | Vacuum the living room | |||
| Theo7 | Load the dishwasher Unload the dishwasher | Load the dishwasher Unload the dishwasher Take out the small bins | Load the dishwasher Unload the dishwasher Fold the towels and t-shirts | Load the dishwasher Unload the dishwasher | Load the dishwasher Unload the dishwasher Take out the small bins | Load the dishwasher Unload the dishwasher | Load the dishwasher Unload the dishwasher Fold the towels and t-shirts |
Free printable chore chart — gethomsy.com/tools/chore-chart-printable
No printer? The same button saves it as a PDF from the print dialog.
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Free to use anywhere, no permission needed. Copy the two lines below. The chores-by-age reference loads in the frame; the credit line under it is a plain link readers and crawlers can both follow.
Paper on the fridge is read by whoever walks past it. Homsy, our app, is the version where each job carries a named person, repeats without anybody re-entering it, and records that it happened — and where a rotating chore moves to the next person as it is ticked off.
Your household, chores and choices are saved in this browser. There is no account.
Age-appropriate chores, by age
All 62 chores in the library, under the age each one is usually started at. These are the ages children in a household commonly take a job on, not a developmental assessment — the adult in the room is the only person who can judge whether a particular child is ready for a particular job.
Every line here is printable as a second sheet, and everything is editable on the chart above.
Ages 2 to 3
Done alongside an adult. Expect it slow, messy and half finished — at this age the point is joining in, not the result.
- Put the toys in the box — Every day
- Clothes in the laundry basket — Every day
- Books back on the shelf — Every day
- Wipe a spill with a cloth — Every day
- Carry the unbreakables to the table — Mon, Wed, Fri
- Sweep with the small brush — Sat
Ages 4 to 5
Two or three steps, remembered with a reminder. This is the age a picture on the chart earns its place.
- Make the bed — Every day
- Get dressed on your own — Every day
- Set the table — Every day
- Clear your plate — Every day
- Feed the pet — Every day Measure the food out first — the job is carrying it, not judging how much.
- Water the plants — Sat
- Sort the laundry by colour — Sat
- Tidy the bedroom before bed — Every day
- Put the low-shelf shopping away — Sat
Ages 6 to 8
Longer jobs, less watching. The work is real now, and so is redoing it in front of them — do not.
- Load the dishwasher — Every day
- Unload the dishwasher — Every day
- Fold the towels and t-shirts — Wed, Sun
- Take out the small bins — Tue, Fri
- Wipe the bathroom sink — Sat
- Sweep the kitchen floor — Thu, Sun
- Wash the vegetables — Mon, Thu
- Make your own snack — Every day
- Put your own things away — Every day
- Rake or weed the garden — Sat
Ages 9 to 11
Most household jobs, to a reasonable standard, with the occasional reminder.
- Cook a simple meal — Wed Hob and oven with an adult in the room until it is dull to watch.
- Run a full load of laundry — Sat
- Vacuum the living room — Thu, Sun
- Clean the bathroom — Sat
- Take out all the bins and recycling — Tue, Fri
- Help with the grocery shop — Sat
- Run the dishwasher cycle — Every day
- Walk the dog — Every day
- Clean the pet bowls or the litter tray — Mon, Thu
- Mow the lawn — Sat After being shown, with shoes on, and never with anybody else on the grass.
Ages 12 to 14
Adult-quality work on most of the house, plus the beginnings of running part of it.
- Cook dinner for the family — Wed
- Do your own laundry start to finish — Sun
- Deep clean the oven or the fridge — Sat Read what is on the bottle before it is opened, and open a window.
- Clean the windows — Sat
- Mind a younger sibling for an hour — Fri
- Walk or cycle to the shop for an errand — Sat
- Change a bulb, tighten a screw — Sat
- Put your own week in the calendar — Sun
- Mop the floors — Sat
Ages 15 to 17
The practice years. These are the jobs that have to be automatic before somebody moves out.
- Do the grocery shop to a budget — Sat
- Plan and cook two meals this week — Tue, Thu
- Book your own appointments — Mon
- Write down what you spent this week — Sun
- Take a sibling to their activity — Sat
- Paint or patch whatever needs it — Sat
- Change the bedding, yours and the spare — Sun
- Sort the recycling and the returns — Fri
Adults
The jobs that run the household rather than tidy it. A chart with no adult row on it teaches the wrong lesson.
- Plan the week's meals — Sun
- Do the main grocery shop — Sat
- Cook dinner — Every day
- Wash up after dinner — Every day
- Put a wash on — Mon, Thu
- Clean the bathroom properly — Sat
- Vacuum through the house — Thu, Sun
- Change the beds — Sun
- Pay the bills and check the account — Mon
- Put the bins out — Tue, Fri
The ages match the ones on our longer guide to age-appropriate chores for kids, deliberately — two pages on one site disagreeing about when a child can load a dishwasher would be worse than either page alone.
How the chart decides who does what
The chart is a grid of people against days, and the only arithmetic on the page is the one that fills the squares. Every person has an age, every age falls in one of seven bands — 2 to 3, 4 to 5, 6 to 8, 9 to 11, 12 to 14, 15 to 17, and adults — and every one of the sixty-two chores in the library belongs to a band as well. A chore can be given to anybody whose band sits at or above its own, so an adult can take a toddler's job and nobody takes an adult's. A chore nobody in the house is old enough for is left unassigned and printed as unassigned rather than pushed onto the nearest person.
There are two ways the squares get filled, and the toggle on the page picks between them. With “Same every week”, a job goes to whoever is actually in its own age band — the ten-year-old's jobs land on the ten-year-old — and only if nobody in the house is in that band does it widen to everybody old enough. Nothing about it depends on the date, which is what makes it the same chart in January that it was in September.
With “Rotate weekly” the pool widens to everybody old enough and the week does the moving. The chores are numbered in the order they sit on the chart, the week is numbered by the ISO week of the Monday you are printing, and job number N goes to the Nth-plus-the-week-number person in that pool, counting round. That is why printing the same week twice gives the same chart and printing next week gives next week's: the order is computed from the calendar rather than saved anywhere, so nothing has to be kept for the rotation to advance and there is no state to lose. It is also why the adults start picking up the children's jobs once rotation is on, which is the entire point of a household rotating anything. The chart holds at most four jobs per person per day either way; a fifth on the same day is dropped rather than allowed to push the sheet onto a second page.
The age bands are our own editorial judgement, taken from the ages already published in our guide to age-appropriate chores for kids so that the two pages cannot contradict each other. They are not a developmental assessment, they are not measured against anything, and they say nothing about any individual child — they are the ages a job is commonly started at in a household, and the adult standing in the room is the only person who can judge whether a particular child is ready. The one-page promise is not a judgement: eight people, seven days and four jobs a day was set by printing the full chart in headless Chrome and counting the pages Chrome produced. The white sheet on the screen is the printed sheet rather than a preview of it. Your names, ages, chores, days and choices are held in this browser's local storage. There is no account, and clearing your browser data clears the chart.
Every figure above was read out of the code that runs on this page. Where a number is our own judgement rather than a published one, the note says so and cites nothing. Method last checked 31 August 2026.
Why the chart on the fridge stops working in week three
Every household that has tried a chore chart knows the shape of the failure. Week one it is on the fridge and the squares get ticked. Week three it is behind a school letter and nobody has looked at it since Tuesday. The paper did not fail — nothing happened when a square went unticked, and a chart with no consequence attached is a decoration.
That is worth saying at the top of a page selling a printable chart, because it decides what the chart should look like. Two things make paper worth printing anyway. It is visible without being opened: a grid on a fridge door is read by everybody who walks past it, which no app achieves. And it is public: your name is on a row that other people can see, and an empty Saturday is a fact rather than an argument. So the chart here is a grid rather than a list — names down the side, the seven days across, one job to a square — because a square is a thing you can tick, and a list beside a name is a thing you can dispute.
The second decision is who gets which job, and this is where most printable charts quietly go wrong. Ours rotates on request, and the rotation only moves a job among the people old enough for it — the ages come from the same library the reference sheet prints, which matches our longer guide to age-appropriate chores for kids so the two pages cannot disagree. An even split that hands the oven to a four-year-old is not fair. If the argument in your house is about the division itself rather than the schedule, the fair chore split calculator weighs jobs by the time they take, building a chore rotation system covers the weekly and monthly patterns, and the best chore app for couples is the two-person version of the same problem.
The rewards column is optional and stays optional. There is real published work behind children doing chores — a 2022 study of 207 children aged 5 to 13 found that doing self-care and family-care chores predicted better working memory and inhibition — and there is nothing we can honestly quote about whether a row of stars changes anything. If you are weighing up paying for chores at all, what the reward apps actually cost prices the field, and the chore allowance calculator works out what a rate per job adds up to over a month before you promise it. For younger children, a chore chart for kids covers the formats age by age and chore chart ideas covers the ones that survive contact with a seven-year-old.
Two other sheets belong on the same fridge, and for the same reason. Our cleaning schedule generator answers what gets cleaned when rather than by whom, and the printable grocery checklist is the other list everybody walks past — though a shopping list is the one job paper handles worst, since the person standing in the shop is never the person holding the sheet. Creating a shared shopping list walks through the four honest ways round that.
The honest limit of this chart is the limit of all paper: it exists in one place, it does not remind anybody, and it cannot tell you in November whether October actually happened. That is the job a chore chart app does instead — a named person on each job, the repeat, and the record. Print this first. A chart on the fridge on Sunday beats a better system nobody set up.
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A printed chart helps whoever walks past it. Homsy puts a named person on each job, repeats it without anybody re-entering it, keeps the record of whether it happened, and moves a rotating chore to the next person as it is ticked off.