Spring Cleaning Game #5: Chore Tokens

It's token time! Watch this quick video for a tutorial on creating your own magnetic chore tokens. Create them just for spring cleaning season, or leave them up year round - and point your kids in their direction the next time they mention how bored and/or broke they are!

Click HERE to find it on YouTube!

Customized Dirt Devil Dash Vacuum

Have you ever customized your vacuum? We commissioned pinstripe artist Kevin Moore to detail a few cleaners for us.

He customized more than two dozen Dirt Devil Dash dirt cups ...

personalizing them with names and adding unique pinstripe lines to each cleaner.

The resulting pieces were truly works of art:

The finished product looks pretty good next to a more traditional pinstriping job ...

Click here to see the full video of Kevin working on the Dash, and let us know how you would trick out your own vacuum!

Spring Cleaning Game #4: Freeze Clean

By Amber Matheson

What’s better than a game that gets your kids up and moving? For parents, the answer might well be a round of cleaning masquerading as a game! Here’s one way to turn Spring Cleaning into something that feels a little more like fun and a little less like work – and it’s perfect for the littlest members of the family.

Focus the game on one particular room – a playroom, one of the kids’ bedrooms, or the living room. It could even be helpful on an area like a messy hall closet. Start the game by shouting “Melt!” to signal your kids to start cleaning/picking things up/putting things away as quickly as possible. Signal them to stop by shouting “Freeze!”

Continue playing Freeze Clean until the room is clean. You can also substitute music for the words, turning the music on when you want them to clean and turning it off to get them to freeze, creating a sort of musical chairs version of cleaning.

Warning – you may find yourself laughing too hard to clean – but that’s the best part of the game. It just goes to show that even cleaning can be a fun family activity.

Will you try Freeze Clean with your kids? Tell us below!