Screen Time Chore Chart

What this sheet is for

This chart is built for households where screen time is something kids earn rather than something they are simply given. When a child finishes a chore from the menu, they write it down, log the minutes it is worth, and watch their screen-time balance grow. Parents keep things fair and consistent without negotiating every time someone wants to watch a video or play a game.

How to use it

Start by having your child write their name and what they are saving up for — a longer gaming session, a movie night, or a specific total — on the lines at the top. Refer to the 'Chores and minutes you earn' menu whenever a chore is done. In the ledger, your child fills in the Date, writes the chore under 'Chore I completed,' logs the minutes in 'Min earned,' and adds it to the 'Running total' column. The running total carries forward row by row so the balance is always visible at a glance. When minutes are spent on screen time, deduct them from the running total in the next open row and note 'Used' in the chore column.

What is printed on the page

“Screen Time Chore Chart” is laid out as points ledger: a points menu of six tasks and their values in a box at the top, a name and saving-up-for line, then a sixteen-row ledger of date, task, points earned and running total. Under the title it reads “Earn screen-time minutes by completing chores — track every minute here.”, and the line at the foot of the page says “Cap your daily screen time at a set number of minutes and write that limit at the top so it stays visible.”.

The menu items slot holds six entries — “Empty the dishwasher — 15 min”, “Vacuum one room — 20 min”, “Take out the trash — 10 min”, “Wipe down the bathroom sink — 10 min”, “Put away all clean laundry — 20 min” and “Sweep the kitchen floor — 15 min” — so the sheet is already filled in for chores rather than left as blank rows to label yourself.

The remaining labels on “Screen Time Chore Chart”, the chores sheet, are “Name” for the name label, “Saving up for” for the goal prompt, “Chores & minutes you earn” for the menu heading, “Date” for the date heading, “Chore I completed” for the task heading, “Min earned” for the points heading and “Running total” for the total heading.

Two things about this particular points ledger are settings rather than text, and “Screen Time Chore Chart” has them set like this. Menu box is on: include the points menu box at the top. Goal line is on: include the saving-up-for line beside the name.

Tips

Set a household daily cap — say 60 minutes — so kids plan which chores to do each day to reach it.

Let kids choose the order they do chores; ownership over the sequence increases follow-through without reminders.

Review the ledger together each Sunday and roll any unspent minutes into the next week's starting balance.

The other layouts in this set

“Screen Time Chore Chart” is one of five sheets in this set, each a different fixed layout filled for the same topic. “My Helping Stars Chart” uses the star grid layout, “Tidy Room Star Chart” uses the single goal layout, “Chore Points Ledger” uses the points ledger layout and “Kids Allowance Tracker” uses the points ledger layout. Pick by how you work: the layout decides how much you write and where, not what the sheet is about.