I posted my cleaning schedule last week when I shared my cleaning closet redo and some of you were curious if my girls help with the household work.
Evie helps out too, but my two older girls are old enough to do some real cleaning as part of their weekly chores. To make their chores a little more exciting (a stretch, I know!) and to give them more ownership, the girls and I decided they needed their own cleaning kits. So we went to Home Depot together and shopped for some supplies to make the kits. We found a huge display with duct tape in all different colors and we thought that would make a cute (and waterproof!) decoration for simple white buckets.
We also picked up some colorful nylon cording.
The girls and I worked together to wrap the buckets in layers of the duct tape. If you roll the bucket while pulling the tape really taut, there won’t be any air bubbles or wrinkles.
Then we used a hot glue gun to wrap the handles in the nylon cording.
It’s surprising to me how putting in even a little extra effort to make something beautiful gives a household item so much more importance. My girls love these buckets and they’ve been diligently doing their chores lately! Success!
The Home Depot and P&G want to give away a few things today so one of you readers can kick start your own cleaning and organizing project! To enter to win a $200 gift card to The Home Depot along with some cleaning products including Febreze Air Effects, Bounty Select-A-Size and Charmin Ultra Soft, simply leave a comment on this post and share what project you have in mind. Or share what you do to help get your kids excited to help cleaning!
Jenny, your projects are always so inspiring. And beautiful! I love being organized, but get so caught up trying to make it look good as well as practical that I usually give up. You make it look so effortless! Such a talented lady.
I live in a rental, but I really need some type of shelving for my son's play corner!
I have three mid-size projects hanging over my head. This would be awesome! Thank you!
Great idea to get the kids to help!
Our laundry room is tiny, dark and disorganized. HELP!
So cute! I would use the gift card toward our new house remodel.
i wish a bucket like this would get my 14 yr old son cleaning his room!!
man o man, boys are slobs!!
i love this idea for your girls! hope they keep up with the chores!
i would use the card to buy some things to organize my sons room better and to clean his stained carpets!!
coat closet or upstairs linen closet.
So fun! I just moved into a new apartment that needs a lot of work. I want to start with a clean, fresh slate!
We need to work on our guest bathroom. It is currently dullsville!
I'd love to put shelving and organizers in my bathroom!
With a baby on the way, we really need to get our kitchen organized! It will make it so much easier to whip together fresh dinners, plus we need to find somewhere to hide all the kids dishes and cups well have soon :)
Have a cleaning cabinet that is begging for some love – thanks for the ideas!
We are about to put our house on the market–much cleaning needs to be done!!
Definitely need to get started on my closet!
Definitely need to start on the closet!
I would love to spiff up our laundry/ storage space – it constantly needs cleaning/organizing.
I use a chore chart with my five year old but two year is just naturally eager to help. We all work together and big use timers to see how fast we can get it done :-)
I need to clean all those hard-to-reach, easy-to-ignore spots like the backs of closets, underneath furniture, baseboards, etc
Would love to win this! Closet organization is on top of my list!
I'm redoing the closet under our stairs with building new shelves. I'd love to put the cleaning things there.
We will be moving in a couple months, and after helping friends move last week…I feel like there are never enough cleaning products for the job! This would be amazing!
I desperately need to work on our laundry room. Thanks for the great tips & giveaway!
I desperately need to work on our laundry room. Thanks for the great tips & giveaway!
Kitchen update!
We are working on switching the light fixtures in our kitchen, so this would be great!
Our main bathroom is an outdated and dingy mess! Time for an upgrade!
I think it is so helpful to have cleaning supplies in each bathroom and the kitchen…makes tackling a quick job so much easier…that is how I would spend the money.
I have been planning on getting my whole house organized and on a schedule before we get pregnant with baby #2. However, I would probably start with my pantry (I already have some DIY projects in mind) :))
When my kids were little whoever did the best and the most cleaning didn't have to walk the dog that night!
We just moved, so we have a never-ending list of cleaning/organizing projects to tackle! But the big one is our patio. This gift card would be soooo helpful in getting that done. And I'll never say no to extra cleaning supplies!
Organizing the garage!
Where to begin…our closet is in need of organization!
I have been planning on getting my whole house on organized and on a schedule before we get pregnant with baby #2. However, I would probably start with my pantry (I have some DIY`s planned) :))
I think I finally have the perfect project to jump on the chalk paint trend, a table to repurpose! Also, some new storage options are much needed in our tiny apartment.
I'm desperate to give my storage room some organization. Random tubs of who know what, things I access regularly just tossed sloppily in a bin. Its not great. Would love to refresh and organize it to make it a functional space.
I'm desperate to give my storage room some organization. Random tubs of who know what, things I access regularly just tossed sloppily in a bin. Its not great. Would love to refresh and organize it to make it a functional space.
I would love to organize my bedroom closet and my linen closet. Your post the other day gave me a lot of inspiration!
I would love to give our back porch a facelift before Spring arrives.
I've been so inspired by your closet transformation! In my hall there is a coat closet that's had the same items hanging in it for over two years (call me lazy). It has a peculiar smell, something between leather must and cheep perfume from the 30's. I've been painting the rest of my house & it has had such a huge impact on my homemaker side that I've been dying to transform the hall closet into a craft/ organized storage area. I'm determined to do it one way or another!!
I would use it to clean & reorganize the one big closet in my apartment! It has to store pretty much everything — clothes, cleaning supplies, shoes, crafts, etc.
Our garage needs some organization and storage. It's such an eyesore, and would live to spiffy it up a bit!
I need to organize the laundry room!
I need to organize all my closets to get all of the stuff out of our soon-to-be nursery!
I'm inspired by these chore buckets, though we typically have great success just with introducing (or re-introducing) a sticker chart. Thanks!
So many possibilities, but would probably put towards building a bench for our entry. Thanks for the giveaway! ALways impressed by your creative ideas.
What a great idea! We love duct tape over here too! My best tip to make things fun & productive is to turn it into a game. We play "Mystery Garbage" when I tell my boys to clean up…I pick an item in my head and the one who picks it up "wins"! Ha! So simple, and they love it, those competitive little spirits!
Would love to win. Getting ready to attempt some plumbing pipe night stands for the boys' room as part of a little makeover this Spring!
What a great giveaway! I would use the giveaway to create our blah laundry room into total chic-ness and make the closet in our laundry room functional for cleaning products and paint! Thanks for all the inspiration Jenny!
Definitely my closets! I have a closet that functions as a cleaning closet/office/storage closet and I've tried half heartedly to cuten it up, but not with any real success. Winning this giveaway would change that! :)
When my boys and husband need prompting to do their chores, I ask them to 'man your battle stations!' It's a great reminder and doesn't sound like nagging … and it works! :-)
When my boys and husband need prompting to do their chores, I ask them to 'man your battle stations!' It's a great reminder and doesn't sound like nagging … and it works! :-)