Weekly chores for 5-year-olds
Weekly chores at 5: 10 jobs, jobs done once a week, that a 5-year-old can do (2 alone) or start learning, about 110 minutes in all.
Weekly chores at 5
| Job | Stage | Time | How often | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Match socks from the laundry | On their own | 10 min | Weekly | 10 |
| Water the plants | On their own | 5 min | Weekly | 5 |
| Dust furniture | With you | 10 min | Weekly | 10 |
| Put clean clothes away | With you | 10 min | Weekly | 10 |
| Put groceries away | With you | 10 min | Weekly | 10 |
| Empty the small trash cans | With you | 5 min | Weekly | 5 |
| Fold laundry | With you | 15 min | Weekly | 10 |
| Pull weeds | With you | 20 min | Weekly | 15 |
| Sort laundry by color | With you | 10 min | Weekly | 10 |
| Tidy their bedroom | With you | 15 min | Weekly | 10 |
On their own means most children this age manage it alone; With you means they start it with a grown-up alongside. Points are on a 5-for-a-small-job scale.
Start together at 5
- Tidy their bedroom (alone from about 8)
- Put groceries away (alone from about 8)
- Put clean clothes away (alone from about 7)
- Sort laundry by color (alone from about 8)
- Fold laundry (alone from about 9)
- Dust furniture (alone from about 7)
- Empty the small trash cans (alone from about 7)
- Pull weeds (alone from about 8)
Most 5-year-olds can do alone
- Match socks from the laundry
- Water the plants
How much time it adds up to
- Every job on this page
- 110 minutes
- Only the ones they do alone
- 15 minutes
- Suggested load at this age
- 10 to 15 minutes a day
⚠️ Safety notes for these jobs: Pull weeds: Gloves on, and show them any plants in your garden that sting or are poisonous.
A day of jobs at 5
- Daily jobs
- 2 or 3 short jobs
- Weekly jobs
- 1, done with you
- Time
- 10 to 15 minutes a day
What these jobs teach
- breaking a big job into steps
- deciding what to keep
- working to a checklist
- sorting and categorizing
- knowing where food is kept
- what goes in the fridge
- matching and colours
- patience
In TaskFamily these become jobs on your 5-year-old's own screen, with points, repeat days and the Trust Ladder to move each job from "check every time" to spot checks.
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Ages and times are typical, not rules: children develop at different speeds, and you know yours best. The chore library is TaskFamily's own. The guide text is drafted with AI from these numbers and checked automatically before it is published.