Chore ideas to earn Disney Dollars

[meliss8599]

Hi everyone! We're going to be in Disney this summer and I'd like our soon to be 9 year old daughter to earn some Disney Dollars before our trip. I'm hoping it will teach her some responsibility and it will also prevent her from nagging us in the park for every little souvenir.

My problem lies in some additional chores/things she can do to earn them. I want these to be things above and beyond what she is expected to do as a member of the household anyway (e.g. make her bed, put her dishes in the dishwasher, etc.). Each activity will earn her 1 Disney Dollar.

So far I have:
1. Complete worksheets in summer packet sent home from school/pages in learning workbooks.
2. Read for 30 minutes
3. Caught in the act of doing something nice/good for others
4. Help with the laundry
5. Brush the dogs
6. Water the flowers

Any ideas you have would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance!

~Melissa~

 

[carj]

My kids are 7 and 4 so their chores are a little different but here is what we have!
1. Clean a room other than your own.
2. Vaccum room, including baseboards.
3. Fill a box, (copy paper size) with your stuff to donate.

I like your reading idea! We do the summer reading program at the library. They get a little prize for reading 5 hours or 25 titles, depending on their age. I may offer a Disney Dollar for that as well. Right now, they have $12 and $10. I was hoping they would be up to $50 each by our trip. Since we leave in 19 days, they will have to get moving!

I have some souveniers in mind that I am planning on buying for them so this money will be for them to spend as they choose.

 

[meliss8599]

Those are some good ideas--thanks! I especially like the one about filling a box with things to donate. I always have to do that by myself without her around otherwise she fights me to keep everything! That's a great way to clean out the playroom.

I'm adding it to her list of earning options right now.

 

[mommyof2princesses]

At 9, my dd was doing a different chore each day. Such as:

Mon: dust the living room
Tue: sweep kitchen floor
Wed: dust upstairs
Thur: Sweep kitchen floor (this need to be done twice week)
Fri: help fold laundry
Sat: clean room

In addtion, she also set the table and emptied dishwahser.

Now that she is 13, she has to clean toilets and wash sinks. Her sister now sets the table and dusts the living room. (She is 4 1/2)

We don't pay our 13 yo allowance right now because she is babysitting and makes enough money. At age 9 she got $3.50 a week. 50 cents was for ice cream at school and she was allowed to do what she wanted with $1. The other $2 went into the bank! dd4 gets $1 a week in disney dollars for now.

 

[dogodisney]

You could also reward her for her behavior. If she doesn't have to be reminded to do her chores then she can earn extra money or other ways that you can think of to reward her behavior. That is what I did for my two girls two years ago, when they were 11 and 13. For mine, if they acted up and I had to correct them about the same thing more than once then they lost their money for the day. That happened just a couple of times and they changed their ways pretty quick.

 

[luvmy3]

I do a points system. For everything they do that I don't have to remind them to do, they get a point. It is simple stuff like bringing your plate to the sink after a meal, not leaving your dirty clothes in the bathroom, hanging up back pack, picking up their toys left in any other room other than their own, etc. When they get to 20 points they earn $1. If I have to tell them to do any of it, then they don't get a point.
Over the summer they will have daily chores that they will be responsible for, like dusting, vacuuming, loading dishwasher, and feeding the cats. I'm not sure how I'm going to work those into the point system.