Kids Daily Schedule Maker – Printable Summer and Daily Routine

Make a daily schedule your kids can follow

Children cope better with long days at home — summer holidays, weekends, or a day when a parent is working from home — when they know what comes next. This kids daily schedule maker gives you a ready-made routine to start from, lets you change any time or activity, colour-codes the blocks (meals, play, outdoors, learning, screen time, chores, rest) and shows how much time goes to each. Then print it as a chart with a tick box for every activity.

Choose a summer day at home, a school day, a weekend day or a work-from-home day, add your child’s name and their real activities, and pin it to the fridge. Your schedule is saved in this browser, so you can tweak it through the holidays.

How to use the Kids Daily Schedule Maker

1. Choose a template under Start from and add your child’s name.
2. Change any start time, activity or category; each activity runs until the next one starts.
3. Add your own activities with the Add an activity row, or remove ones you do not need.
4. Set the bedtime, check the time by category, then print the chart or download it as a PDF or PNG.

Kids Daily Schedule Maker features

Tips for a summer schedule that works

• Anchor the day with fixed points — meals, outdoor time and bedtime — and keep the rest flexible.
• Alternate busy and calm blocks: an active outdoor hour, then reading or a quiet activity.
• Put screen time later in the day as something to look forward to, and agree how long it lasts; the screen time calculator can help.
• Give children small jobs such as tidying up or helping with dinner; pair it with the chore chart maker.
• Keep reading going through the holidays with the reading log.

Adapting the schedule to your child’s age

Whatever the age, a consistent wake-up time and bedtime matter more than filling every minute. Leave some free play in the plan — boredom is often where children start their own games.

• Toddlers and preschoolers (2–4): short blocks of 15–30 minutes, a nap or long quiet time after lunch, and a picture beside each activity. Keep the same order every day more than the same clock times.
• Early primary (5–7): blocks of 30–45 minutes, a reading slot every day and one or two simple jobs. Children this age like ticking off the boxes themselves.
• Older children (8–12): longer blocks for hobbies, sport or projects, a say in what goes on the plan, and more responsibility for their own reading, practice and chores.

How the times are worked out

Each activity starts at the time you enter and lasts until the next activity begins; the last one runs until the bedtime you set. The totals add those lengths for each colour category, so changing one start time updates two activities at once. If an activity has no start time, or bedtime falls before the last activity, a warning appears above the totals.

Working from home with kids

On a work-from-home day, plan independent play and quiet activity boxes for your meetings, put outdoor breaks and meals at times you can join in, and save screen time for the hour you most need to concentrate. Younger children manage shorter blocks; older children can follow a list on their own. For a weekly class timetable or a care rota, use the timetable maker.