Yes you read that right, the glue stick dried out and instead of asking me for a new one my husband used some Chapstick and toilet paper to fill in the squares on the chart.. I so wish I had taken a photo before I took it down.
So, we needed a new chart and my son Elvis has been super excited about the new Lego Star Wars Game coming out for the DS.. We came up with a plan. Since a new Video game is expensive he had to fill a chart to get it.. Instead of filling it half way and getting something small and then another small item when it was full.
This is what I came up with..
I took a piece of 12x12 card stock and I put an image of the item he wanted.. using a 1 1/4" circle punch I punched out 40 black circles and adhered them around the image. Then I punched out 40 small stars and these will be what he earns and attaches to the circles.
Last time I just had the stars in an envelope and I would make them as needed.. To avoid the toilet paper Chapstick issue again...lol I attached all 40 stars to a strip of mini glue dots.
You can just cute the strip off when you have the allotted amount of items on there. I usually have a extra long piece on my roll so I just trim that off and use it to go around the area exposed where I cut my strip off so they won't stick to the inside of the box. Another option is you could attach them to a piece of Wax Paper with the glue dot on the back.
After they were all on the strip I carefully rolled it up and placed it in a sandwich bag and attached it to the side of the chart with a paperclip after I attached it to the door. He loves it and is so excited to do every and anything he can to get a star and get that game! Start to finish the whole chart took less then 20 minutes and I used what I had on hand!
I hope everyone had a great weekend that was full of sunshine it was gorgeous here in MD. I spent most of my weekend cooking.. I tried out 2 new recipes and they came out great.. Now it's back to a busy week here for me.. Hope you have a great week ahead!!!

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