Free Printable Rewards for Kids

Building their own rewards gets kids more involved and is a great way to help younger kids watch their progress. You give them a small piece of the reward each time they demonstrate a a good behavior and allow them to start gluing it all together. Once the smaller pieces have been glued together you can display their accomplishment or perhaps allow them to trade in their completed masterpiece for some type of prize!

TIP: When small children use glue, to help them keep it clean, try using a sing song voice and saying "Just a DOT, not a Lot!!" and make it fun! This saying sticks in their heads and later you may catch them responsibly gluing while singing it to themselves- remember to reward them if you do see them doing that!

Free Printable Reward: Build a Dump Truck!





Free Printable Reward: Build a Flower

When starting to use new reward systems, ask yourself what type works best for YOUR family. Some kids do better with reward charts and stickers, come with color coded traffic light systems, some with poker chips and other kids really do well with reward bucks.

In our home, we use both a behavior chart AND reward bucks. We give my son the reward bucks for good behavior- he is older now so we are using them less and less (more out of habit now) when he does something really good, he gets a reward buck and a sticker on his behavior chart- he is not being rewarded twice, but he is essentially getting a copy to keep for himself. After he gets ten reward bucks, he can choose his prize, the prizes are simple things that we can allow him to do like extra time playing the Wiii, choosing dinner for the entire family, staying up a bit later on the next Saturday night, having a friend over to play basketball... the prize is really the power of choice.

When he was much younger, the bucks were given out more frequently for things like putting away toys, drawing a picture (that was actually a monumental event in our home), feeding the dogs, eating his own dinner etc. The prizes were smaller because the rewards were given out so frequently so instead of 30 minutes on the Wii it was 10 minutes on the Wii.

Whatever rules you decide on for your child, make sure that you write them down!

Make a list of desired behaviors and share it with friends and family who care for your child- this way they can help out by rewarding your child as well!

Make a list of prizes that you are willing to give your child when they save up their bucks or tickets... be sure NOT to go back on your word- if you offer it and they earn the rewards then you must follow through!

Talk to your child and give them some basic examples of good behavior and bad behavior. If your child need visual cues, please use them! Help them understand that this is not punishment, it is a way for them to to feel good about doing the right thing. If they do not show good behavior, they will not get a prize.

Please make sure to set achievable, developmentally appropriate goals!

I like to make some special rewards for holidays to keep my son interested. They are the same value as his regular rewards, they just have festive images on them!

Public Domain Bats, Owl and Witch clipart by OCAL