Home Responsibilities for a 5 Year Old

1. Help with the meal planning and grocery shopping.

2. Make own sandwich or simple breakfast. Then clean up.

3. Pour own drink

4. Tear up lettuce for the salad.

5. Prepare the dinner table.

6. Put in certain ingredients to a recipe.

7. Make bed and clean room.

8. Dress own self and choose outfit for the day.

9. Scrub the sink, toilet, and bathtub. Take soiled towels and washcloths to laundry area.

10. Clean mirrors and windows.

11. Separate clothing for washing. Put white clothes in one pile and colored in another.

12. Fold clean clothes and put them away.

13. Answer the telephone and begin to dial the phone for use.

14. Do yard work. Pick up sticks, paper, etc. pull weeds.

15. Pay for small purchases.

16. Help clean out the car.

17. Take out the garbage.

18. Decide how to spend his/her share of the family entertainment fund.

19. Feed the family pet and clean it's living area.

20. Learn to tie shoes.

21. Pick up clothes (hang on hook or put soiled ones in hamper)

22. Bathe self with parental supervision.