11 games that will make kids love cleaning and washing dishes

Keeping an apartment clean can be difficult, even for adults. And getting children to clean their own room or wash a mountain of dishes is sometimes an almost unrealistic task.

Here are some cool ideas to turn a chore into a game and even make your household look forward to spring cleaning.

1. Race!

Divide cleaning rooms among all family members. Set a timer for 60 minutes, for example. And... start cleaning up, trying to finish your front of work before the rest! It's like a quest where you only have an hour to solve difficult puzzles and solve mysteries.

What to do if one of you does not have time to manage in the allotted time? Come up with funny punishments - for example, throw water on the losers, as in Ice Bucket Challenge.

2. Musical cleaning

Relay game. Number the rooms so that it is clear in which direction the players should move. Conduct a draw to allocate rooms among the participants.

Before that, prepare a special cleaning playlist. Between a couple of songs - every 10-15 minutes of playback - insert a few beeps or calls. They will mean that the baton passes to another person.

When everyone is ready to start cleaning, turn on the music. Each time it is interrupted by a signal, trade rooms with the person on your right. For example, if he was engaged in the fourth room, now you will clean it, and he will get the fifth.

Continue to clean from where the previous participant left off. And yes, if you have problems creating a playlist, you can simply use the timer.

3. Reward for the winner

Come up with a reward for spring cleaning, such as watching a movie with your family. The first person to complete all the tasks can choose any film and order a pizza of their choice!

4. Cleaning Tournament

Take a to-do list and divide the items on it into two columns. You can distribute in a random order, or on the basis of "desirable" or "undesirable" activities. For example, if your family does not like to beat carpets and clean pet cages, these items can be classified in the second group.

On the eve of cleaning, hold a tournament - for example, on board games. Divide the family into two teams. Specify that in the same line-up they will not only play tonight, but also perform house cleaning tasks all week. Play a few rounds so everyone has a chance to catch up. The winners will be able to choose a column with tasks of their choice.

5. Home Minutes-to-Win-it

Minutes-to-Win-it is a type of game in which you need to complete some simple tasks in a minute. For example, draw something with your eyes closed, eat as many cupcakes as possible without using your hands, identify the hidden object by touch. You have probably seen such contests at weddings and anniversaries.

But they can also be used to diversify the usual cleaning process. For example, create a system in which 90% of the time you perform routine activities - mopping floors, dust, reorganize the space of the room, and the remaining 10% - play home Minutes-to-Win-it.

To do this, set a timer that will run every 20 minutes. After his call, all family members should run to a special gathering place (for example, in the living room) and perform small tasks, taking a break from the main, larger-scale activities. It can be:

• "Find a couple." Take out the basket with the socks that are alone. Take a minute. Participants must find a pair for each of them.
• "The Wars of the Laundresses". In a minute, the participants must collect as much dirty laundry as possible for washing. Whoever has the biggest stack wins!
• Shooting from a water pistol. Arm your family with toy guns filled with water and vinegar. Set a timer for 60 seconds. The winner is the one whose window is cleaner than the others.

What does the winner of the round get? For example, the ability to swap cleaning tasks with someone else.

6. Darts

Take a target and place paper notes in its sectors. Each of them should describe a task around the house. Distribute 2-3 darts to family members. And then watch as they, in an attempt to get the desired task, inevitably capture a couple of unloved ones that are nearby.

And you can also introduce an element of luck - for example, leave one note blank. And whoever manages to get it can do nothing around the house all week! True, it is important that all participants have approximately the same shooting skills.

If your target has numbers, you can get creative and write down how much each routine task costs. For example, an easier one will cost 5 points, and one that is more difficult will cost 10 points. And at the end of the game, everyone will be able to purchase home tasks for the points won. Winner chooses first!

7. Cleaning Relay

Divide the family into two teams. Assign each to perform various tasks around the house: for example, while one is washing the floor, the other is wiping the dust.

Set a timer for 3 minutes. As soon as the start signal works, the first person from the team must run to complete the task. His task is to do as much as possible before the timer rings. After the relay race passes to another member of the team. The number of runs and the conditions for victory are determined by you.

8. Game of dice

Make a to-do list around the house. Assign a number to each task, from 1 to 12. Take a couple of dice and give them to all participants to distribute the cases.

Let's say if the seven means washing the floor and the participant has a "3" and "4", then this task goes to him!

If your family has kids or people of retirement age who find it difficult to perform time-consuming tasks, you can break tasks by age. For example, a set of tasks for younger children is from 1 to 6, and for adults - from 7 to 12.

9. Cleaning jenga

Assign each homework a specific color. For example, red can be used to wash dishes, and blue can be used to wash clothes. In accordance with this system, mark each Jenga block with multi-colored stickers.

Play multiple rounds of Cleaning Jenga to ensure each player gets their own front of work. The loser is the one who broke the tower, trying to pull the brick. The color of the part will indicate the task of cleaning the house.

10. The hour of reckoning

This game is good not only because it obliges the child to clean regularly, but also because it teaches him to plan and predict the results of his actions.

Enter some cleaning currency that you will pay for doing household chores. Make a table with prices - for example, washing dishes will cost 10 cleaning rubles, and carpet cleaning - 30.

It will be possible to spend this “money” on some desires or on paying off other routine activities that the child likes less.

For example, a trip to a water park can cost 200 cleaning rubles, and the opportunity not to wash windows costs 100. What will be the rules and prices in this financial game is up to you.

11. White elephant

This is a gift exchange game where the goal is to take the one you like the most. Usually participants bring one box each with some kind of trinket inside. Gifts are piled up. There is then a draw to determine who goes first.

The first player must open any box from the pile and announce what is inside it. On subsequent moves, you can choose: unpack a new gift, also voicing its contents, or “steal” one that is already known from another person. The game ends when all the gifts are distributed among the participants.

The same principle can be applied to housework. For example, write several tasks on a piece of paper and seal them in envelopes. Each player can choose an unopened envelope or "steal" an open one from another person.

Every time someone takes a new letter from the pile, you need to read out loud the task that is indicated inside. You can't just take it away, leaving the contents a secret. As soon as the game is over, everyone has to complete their work by a given deadline - you determine it yourself.

The game has variations: you can set a certain number of steps for which the participant will be able to “steal” envelopes, or indicate how many times the same envelope can be passed from hand to hand.