Chore guide
Change your bed sheets
Take off the old sheets and put on clean ones.
- 3 stars
- Ages 9 to 12
- Weekly
- Tidy and home
From about age 9, children can strip their bed and put on clean sheets with a little help. By 11 or 12 many can do it alone, duvet cover included.
Try this week with your kids
Noki suggests a first week of quests and rewards for your kids. You change what you like before you start.
Why it matters
Changing sheets is a real life skill and kids are proud when they can do it. It also turns a 15-minute job for parents into a shared one.
Steps for kids
- Take off the pillowcase, duvet cover and sheet.
- Put them in the laundry basket.
- Put on the clean fitted sheet, corner by corner.
- Put the clean pillowcase on.
- Put the duvet in its cover and shake it flat.
How to teach it by age
- Ages 7 to 8
They strip the bed and put the pillowcase on.
- Ages 9 to 10
They do the fitted sheet with help.
- Ages 11 to 12
They change the whole bed alone, duvet cover included.
