Age 5
Chore chart for 5 year olds
Five-year-olds can follow a weekly grid if the boxes are large and the jobs are the same every day. Kindergarten adds backpacks, lunchboxes, and earlier mornings — put those on the page.
This is the last year many kids think stickers are currency. Spend that window.
What a 5-year-old can do
Use this as a menu. Your house, your safety rules.
- Make a bed to good-enough
- Unpack a backpack
- Set a simple table
- Feed a pet
- Ten-minute toy reset
- Brush teeth as a tracked job
Skip these for now
Not because kids are incapable of growth — because the risk or the teaching cost is too high for a first chart.
- Taking trash to the street alone
- Kitchen knives
- Mowing
How to run the week
After-school unpack belongs before snacks if snacks eat the afternoon.
Five is old enough to ruin a dry-erase chart with enthusiasm — keep a printed spare.
If they have a younger sibling, do not make “entertain the baby” a daily chore.
Reward idea: Stars or a simple point toward picking Friday’s movie.
Layout: Weekly grid or star reward chart. Featured in our library as the 5-year-old chart.
Questions parents ask
- How many chores at this age?
- Four to six daily, plus one weekly.
- Printable or digital?
- Printable first. Add the digital tracker when you need history or two households.