Free Family Chore Chart Printables

Which family chore chart fits your household?

A family chore chart works when everyone can see their share at a glance — no nagging, no "I did it last time." The six presets cover the common setups. The one-column-per-person chart is the classic: chores down the side, a column for each family member. The weekly rotation spreads jobs across the days so the unpopular ones move around. The each-person-whole-week layout puts people down the side and weekdays across the top. The kids-and-parents split is a friendly chart that shares jobs between grown-ups and children, the points chart gives each chore a value to total up, and the blank chart adapts to any family size.

Who a family chart helps

Any household with more than one person doing the work — which is the point. It's especially useful for families teaching kids that a home runs on shared effort, for blended or busy families where schedules clash, and for households where one person has quietly carried the whole mental load. Putting jobs on paper makes that load visible and splittable, which is often the real fix.

How to run it fairly

Assign chores to age and ability, then rotate the jobs nobody likes so no one feels stuck with the worst one forever. Agree on what "done" looks like up front to avoid arguments later. Keep parents on the chart too — kids copy what they see, and a chart where grown-ups have jobs feels fair rather than like a punishment. Review it together weekly and adjust; a chart that never changes stops matching real life.

Print settings

Print on US Letter at 100% scale. The per-person charts print cleanly in portrait; the rotation and whole-week grids look best in landscape. Laminate a copy and use a dry-erase marker to reuse the same chart week after week.