{ Kids } Turn Your Travel Incentive Chore Board into a Bingo Card
Last Month, Inspiring Mums Shared A Great Way To Get Your Kids To Participate In Doing Chores.
The way it worked was, each chore would have a $ equivalent — an amount that would be “raised”. This $ amount is tallied at the end of each week, with the amount raised being deposited to the joint travel fund for family vacations. It takes quite a bit of preparation, but with enough organisation and research, you’re sure to find that it isn’t that hard to get the kids to rally together not just to do their chores, but to raise money for the trip as well.
If you’re thinking of adding a bit of an element of competition, you can transform this method of incentivising chores into a game of bingo. Bingo has grown to be quite popular in recent years, with The Guardian reporting that its revival had prompted Caledonia Investments to acquire Gala Bingo for £241m. The UK’s Food Standards Agency has even used bingo as a way to promote healthy eating with Eatwell Bingo.
The trend of recreating bingo with different themes has become quite popular as blank bingo cards and templates have appeared online. Parents who want to give their kids a healthy spirit of competition can replace their chore board and cards with sets of bingo cards instead. Rather than using the chore cards suggested before, use a free bingo card generator like the one on osric.com to make a bingo card with all the different chores and their corresponding $ values. Next, brainstorm on a list of prizes for the coming weeks. This can be anything from an addition $ amount, or the privilege to determine parts of the itinerary of your vacation. These prizes will be won by the one to be able to complete a bingo pattern on their Chore Bingo Card first.
Parents constantly need to find a way to motivate their kids to help out around the house, especially as they get older. With the growing popularity of bingo, and the simplicity of its mechanics, it’s certainly a great way to add a bit of diversity to your family activities.
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Originally published at www.inspiringmums.com.au on December 18, 2015.
