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Printable chore charts for adults, roommates and families
Seven printable chore charts for people who share a home as equals: a couples chart, a rotation for roommates, a chart that hands over whole areas, a wheel and an auction board. Every sheet prints in US Letter and A4, the charts come blank and with a filled-in example, and none asks for an email.
In short
Two people who split everything: the couples chart. One owner for each job: the chart for adults, version T. A whole area instead of a list of tasks: the responsibility chart.
Nobody wants the same four jobs forever: the wheel. One job everybody refuses: the auction board. A shared kitchen and separate lives: the roommate rotation.
Whichever you print, the list of 64 jobs by zone fills in the rows.
The seven printable chore charts in this group
Couples chore chart
Zones of the home, one row each, two blank name columns, and a line for what “done” means. Three designs and a sheet of pact cards come in every download. The files and the filled-in example.
Household chores list
64 jobs written out by zone, as a sheet of its own. Print it beside any chart and take the rows from it, instead of arguing each week about what counts as a chore. See the list.
Roommate chore chart
Four name boxes and two weeks on one page. Each shared area moves one person along, and whoever takes it next week signs the Checked by column. The roommate version.
Chore chart for adults
Two versions: O for one person, T for two. Each job has an owner in the Who column, and the day cell takes the initials of whoever actually did it. The Sunday row asks what you change next week. Both versions and the filled-in example.
Responsibility chart
Hands over an area rather than a task, with columns for what the area includes and who is backup. The adult sheet covers 10 areas and is signed by both; the teen sheet runs 8 areas across 4 weeks. The adult and teen sheets.
Chore wheel
A wheel of zones with a disc of names pinned on top of it. Turn it one sector a week, and the arrow shows which week of the round you are in. “Done means” is printed beside the wheel. The wheel for four or six.
Chore auction board
Ten chips each, and the job nobody wants goes to auction. You bid to avoid it; whoever bids lowest does the job and takes the chips that were bid. Chips carry into the next round. The board and the chips page.
Which chore chart template fits your home
Four homes, four sheets to print first:
- Two adults who share everything: the couples chart. Its line for what counts as done settles more arguments than the split does.
- Roommates: the rotation. Shared areas move one person along every week, so nobody inherits the bathroom permanently.
- A teenager: the teen responsibility chart. Eight areas over four weeks, a line for what the teenager earns at the end, and no stars anywhere.
- Children under 13: not these. The kids charts are a separate group in this catalog. Alpacto accounts start at 13, and younger children appear on a parent’s screen.
Why chore charts stop working, and what each sheet does about it
The first count. Somebody adds up the rows, finds the split uneven, and the chart turns into evidence in a case. The auction board prices the jobs nobody wants instead of counting them, and the couples chart keeps a reward row for the heavy ones.
The design. A grid with stars and cartoon animals makes one adult the parent and the other the child. The adult sheets here are lines and names: version T puts the owner in one column and the initials of whoever did it in another.
The remembering. A chart records the doing, not the noticing, so the person holding the list in their head still holds it. The responsibility chart hands over the area with the noticing included, and its backup column says who covers it.
Questions people ask
Where can I find a free template for a chore list?
The household chores list on this site: 64 jobs sorted by zone, in US Letter and A4, with no email form.
How do I make my own chore chart?
Answer four questions first: does a person own a job or a whole area, how long does a turn last, what counts as done, and what happens when a row is missed. The layout follows from the answers, which is why these seven sheets differ.
What is the best free chore chart app for kids?
Not this one. Alpacto accounts start at 13, and younger children appear on a parent’s screen. For a six-year-old, print from the kids group of this catalog.
Why do chore charts stop working after a few weeks?
Because the first version was a guess, and nothing in it makes the guess reviewable. Every sheet here fixes one date-bound thing: a week that starts Monday, one turn of the wheel, chips that carry over.
When the chart needs to remind somebody
Paper holds an agreement until one of you has to chase the other. In Alpacto the same row becomes a pact you both see: the job, what counts as done, the date, and coins that buy rewards from a list the two of you wrote.