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!
I have a small bathroom that I'd like to redecorate. It's about the size of that closet you remodeled! Some paint and fabric for wall paper makes me totally inspired!! Hope I win!
My daughter just turned 4, but she is always so anxious to help clean! I never thought to create her own bucket to make it feel that much better :) Usually I don't have to do much of anything other than hand her a cleaning tool to get her excited!
My daughter just turned 4, but she is always so anxious to help clean! I never thought to create her own bucket to make it feel that much better :) Usually I don't have to do much of anything other than hand her a cleaning tool to get her excited!
So cute! We need to overhaul our laundry room…
My boyfriend and I close on a house at the end of the month…the projects are endless!
We get to make room for a nursery! Of course that means my craft room and my husband's office need to merge so there is plenty of cleaning and organizing to be done!
I need to makeover every closet in my house! My kids love to chip in with their rooms- putting toys and books in organized containers.
We're redoing our bathroom so once that's done, I foresee a major deep clean.
I would spruce up and organize my closets!
I would clean my kitchen which really needs a good scrub down!!!!
I would use it to clean our house after we finish our home renovation – hopefully next month!
I would make a closet just like yours! Love your blog!
looking forward to making the roof deck of the new condo ready to have people over- once all this midwestern snow melts!
What a great idea! I'm planning to organize my massive closet!
What a great idea! I'm planning on organizing my massive bedroom closet!
I've been really wanting to put some hanging hardware on the salvaged window I picked up!
We're closing on our house next week! It needs some serious cleaning before we move in.
What kid? I need to get excited about cleaning myself.
Seriously need to clean up my basement!
We just finished laying tile in our bathroom. So I'd love it to get everything organized as it goes back in the room!
What an awesome giveaway & great ideas!!
I would get to some of my mud room projects! That room needs an overhaul kind of like your closet did!
Oh wow! Home Depot is our 2nd home lately, since we just bought our actual home 3 months ago and have been busy renovating/fixing up ever since. This week our projects are fixing up the 2nd bathroom (removing shower door) and hopefully beginning to tackle the kitchen: removing backplate and making way for new counters. Good times, no really :)
My five year old loves to help put the folded laundry away (not that it necessarily stays folded, but he loves to help at this age and I want to encourage that to continue)!
Lots of work to get done on our house before our little man arrives in June!
We bought a new house last April and have been renovating it for what seems like forever. I would so like to use this to put the finishing touches on things like Home Depots pretty vertical blinds for the french doors leading out into the enclosed garden (with gorgeous tea roses gone wild). And painting the white trim all around the outside of the house. It's peeling. Also, we need a new pump for the fish (?) pond in the garden. And…
My husband and I are planning on updating our kitchen this year. We have lots of work and some fun ahead of us!
I just bought a secondhand dining table that I want to sand down and refinish…that will create a big dusty mess, so there is a lot of cleaning in my future ;)
We hang a chart on the fridge that reminds all of us who is in charge of what each day. Each of the kids get one job a day plus dish duty. This system is simple and they are good about doing their jobs because they know how to do them
we are moving. deep breath. and have a lot of cleaning to do to get the house ready for our landlords to sell. We want to make it spotless so they can sell asap!
I love my house. It's a brick Cape Cod built in 1938, full of character and quirkiness. It also attracts dust like a magnet. I call it "The Great Dust Bowl." We're about halfway through a complete kitchen renovation (which will then spill immediately over into gutting the entire second floor) so the dust is now on steroids. We need to get cleaned up and consolidated enough to survive living on the first floor, so there is lots of work ahead. I think we'll bling out the buckets and give my daughter her own Princess Pail for cleaning.
I would use it for a kitchen update!
Thanks so much!
We bought a fixer-upper when our baby was a whopping three days old. She's almost a year and we are checking things left and right off the list. Windows and new window sills are next on the list. As for chores, we conquer and divide. Each Saturday, each kiddo cleans a bathroom, their room, and a family area. Playing and screen time after. That's usually all the motivation it takes.
We bought a fixer-upper when our baby was a whopping three days old. She's almost one and we have been crossing things off the list left and right. Next up is new windowsills and a few new windows.
Saturday chores. We conquer and divide. And it stays clean for maybe an hour. :)
Laundry room update!
Great idea Jenny! I need to organize my supplies under my sink.
My boys love to help…initially but they tire so quickly. I would love to have them find ownership over their chores and this DIY bucket idea is such a great one!
I've got a brand new house to clean…and by brand new I mean a derelict foreclosure that we're redoing!
Window coverings for my daughter's room would be first on my Home Depot list.
Great bucket idea. Will have to try that out and see if my girls will be more excited to do their chores. I'd love to build some built-in storage on the back wall of our playroom. We've recently moved and there's none in there so everything is still in boxes and driving me crazy.
We are working to get our bathroom organized! Great ideas on your blog – affordable and cute :)
Dealing with all the mud the dogs have brought in. Ugh
Laundry room desperately needs a makeover!
Thanks p&g & HD. Our home office / my craft area needs some major cleaning up and organization
Thanks p&g & HD. Our home office / my craft area needs some major cleaning up and organization
Our garage! I can barely walk through it let alone get two cars in :)
I would love to clean out our yucky basement!
LOVE the buckets! My daughter would love a "cleaning kit"! I on the other hand would LOVE the gift card for a laundry room re-do! Quoting Donkey from Shrek… Pick me! Pick me!
Oh man, you have inspired me to tackle bathroom storage. We are renting an apartment, so they will be no painting involved. But I can definitely use some of your tips.
Thank you so much for your post. I love all the colors you use!
I'm currently working on getting our pantry in shape. Singing our "clean up" song is the best way to get my 14-month old to help pick up his toys, but I'll be using this bucket trick as soon as he's old enough!
I would love to win this! I'm at Home Depot at least twice a week:) I would use it for organizing my closets!!