How to make housework fun for your child

1. Teach your kids a lesson in why the house needs to be clean. If they don't know why we need to pick up the biscuit crumbs from the floor, the motivation is less as they won't understand why they need to waste time.
   
2. Start with a story - As long as it is something that your child can relate to, it will hold their interest. For us, we were the cleaning fairies helping some poor soul in a castle clean up their bedroom.
3. Make up games - use your imagination to make up games incorporating your cleaning so that it is fun for your child. Challenge them in saying things like, I bet you can't fold the pillow case into four to make a pillow sandwich! Now what goes into your pillow sandwich???
   
4. Blast the music - Dance to the music whilst you're working together. This will generate hilarious grooves and will give all of you a good workout at the same time. Plus, it's just more fun with the music on.
   
5. Reward your child for a job well done.