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A chore wheel that moves every shared area one slot a week
This chore wheel is a printable for four or six people. Write the shared areas around the wheel and the names on a paper disc, fasten the disc at the center, and turn it one slot every week. After four weeks, or six, each person has had every area once, and the list beside the wheel says what done means for each.
- Versions
- Four people and four areas; six people and six areas; one page each
- Paper
- US Letter and A4, portrait, print at 100%
- Formats
- Blank and a fillable PDF; the filled-in example is below
- Designs
- Minimal, warm and color
Chore wheel generator: type your names and chores, print your wheel
Write one name and one chore per line. The wheel turns one slot each week, so everyone gets every chore in turn. Nothing you type leaves this page.
What is on the chore wheel printable
Wheel and week ring
An outer ring of lettered slots for the areas, A to D or A to F, and an inner ring numbered by week. Nothing is printed in the slots, so the areas are yours.
Name disc and arrow
A disc with one window per person, to cut out along the dashed line. The arrow on its edge points to the current week.
Done means
One row per letter, with two lines to write the finish line for that area, such as toilet, sink and shower scrubbed, towels swapped.
Dates and trades
Start date, the day you turn the disc, a review date, and one line that settles swaps in advance: “Trades are OK when”.
Why this wheel turns instead of spinning
Half of the top search results are online spinners that hand out jobs at random. One of them says so plainly: “true randomness sometimes produces ‘clusters’ but evens out over time.” A month is where those clusters land on real people.
With four roommates and a spinner used once a week, the chance that four different people clean the bathroom over four weeks is 24 in 256, about 9%. So in roughly nine months out of ten, someone scrubs it twice or more. The chance that everyone gets every area exactly once is 1 in 576.
The bathroom is the job this matters most for: 52% of Americans say they hate or dislike cleaning bathrooms, more than any other chore in a 2025 YouGov poll. A disc turned one slot a week gives the full round every time.
| Week of | A Kitchen | B Bathroom | C Floors | D Trash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 · Sept 7 | Hana | Marcus | Olivia | Rafael |
| 2 · Sept 14 | Rafael | Hana | Marcus | Olivia |
| 3 · Sept 21 | Olivia | Rafael | Hana | Marcus |
| 4 · Sept 28 | Marcus | Olivia | Rafael | Hana |
The odds assume the spinner deals the four areas to the four people at random each week, one each; we checked them with 200,000 simulated months. Poll: YouGov, 2,230 U.S. adult citizens, October 2025.
The four-person template, filled in. The review date is the Monday after week 4.
How to make a chore wheel from the sheet
- Print it at 100%.
- Fill in the wheel. One shared area per outer slot, and what done means for it in the list beside it.
- Cut out the name disc and write one name in each window.
- Fasten it. Push a brass paper fastener, also sold as a brad or split pin, through the center of the disc and the center of the wheel.
- Pick a turn day and write it in. On that day, turn the disc one slot clockwise; the arrow moves to the next week.
A DIY chore wheel from poster board works the same way; the sheet saves the drawing and adds the done-means list.
Turn day: one slot clockwise, and the arrow points to the new week.
Download the chore wheel for 4 or 6 people
Two sizes, three designs each. Every file is free, with no email and no account.
A chore wheel for adults, couples and families
The four roommates in the example settle swaps with one rule: both people post it in the house chat before Sunday. The six-person example is a family with kids aged 9 to 16, where one area is the dog, fed at 7 am and 6 pm and walked 20 minutes.
Fewer people than windows works too. Two people take the four-person wheel and write their names in alternate windows; three people take the six-person wheel and write each name twice. Each person then holds two areas a week, and the areas opposite each other always travel together, so put a heavy one across from a light one.
- For a split that stays put instead of rotating: the roommate chore chart or the couples chore chart.
- For the one job nobody wants to take: the chore auction board.
- More sheets like these: our chore charts.
The done-means list is the part to write together.
Questions people ask
Why do we even have a chore wheel?
So that shared jobs change hands on a schedule nobody has to argue about or keep in their head. The wheel shows who has what this week, and turning the disc is the only upkeep it needs.
What is the most disliked chore?
Cleaning the bathroom: 52% of Americans said they hate or dislike it in a YouGov poll of 2,230 U.S. adult citizens in October 2025, more than any other chore asked about. A wheel that turns in order hands it to each person once per round.
How often should the wheel rotate?
Once a week suits most homes; one family blogger turns theirs every Sunday night at dinnertime. A week also means a job nobody did on Tuesday stays with the same person instead of doubling the next one’s load. At one summer camp, the cabin wheel turns every day.
How does the wheel work for 3 people?
Use the six-person wheel and write each of the three names twice, in the order A, B, C, A, B, C. Each person holds two areas a week, and the round repeats every three weeks.
Is there a free chore app or online spinner?
Online spinners are free but pick at random. Some add an elimination mode, so nobody is picked twice before everyone is picked once; that still does not move each person through every area, as the turning disc does. This sheet is free with no email; for the jobs on your phones, see the app section below.
Is there an A4 version, and can I type into it?
Yes to both: each design comes in US Letter and A4, each with a fillable PDF. The four-person wheel has 16 fields and the six-person wheel 22; the name disc still has to be cut out after printing.
Other free printable sheets
Save this wheel to Pinterest
Pin it now and the wheel is ready on the day the kitchen argument starts again. Four or six people, one slot a week, and a line for what done means in every area.
The same areas, as pacts
In Alpacto each area on the wheel can become a routine between the two people it concerns: a repeating habit with a shared rhythm, visible check-ins and a streak. The pact lives on both their phones, so it holds the reminder instead of a roommate.