How to Make a Growth Chart

Growth charts are so fun to start when your child reaches the age of one. By the time your child is seven or eight, they can look back at the growth chart and see how much they have grown over the years. Making a growth chart is not hard and only takes a moment to update every few months. You can then save the growth chart for your child and give it to them when they grow up.

Things You'll Need

  • Poster board Permanent markers Pencil Polaroid camera Ruler Wall

Instructions

    • 1

      Pick a wall that is fairly undisturbed in your house. You could use the backside of a door if you prefer.

    • 2

      Tape a piece of poster board to the wall or back door. Make sure the poster board begins where the wall meets the carpet. You will be working your way up as your children get older.

    • 3

      Hold a ruler up to the middle of the poster board and mark out the feet and inches with your pencil.

    • 4

      Go back over the feet and inches with colored permanent markers.

    • 5

      Have your child stand with their heels up against the bottom of the poster board. Make sure they are not wearing shoes and that they are standing up straight. Place your hand where the top of their head reaches the poster board and take note of what foot and inch they have reached.

    • 6

      Use your pencil to draw a line out to the right of the matching foot and inch mark and write in your child's name. Then write the date you measured your child on the chart and their age. Fill in with permanent marker.

    • 7

      Take a Polaroid picture of your child and glue or tape it next to their height mark so they can look back and see how young they were when he or she was that particular height.

    • 8

      Update every six months or every year with a new mark and a new picture.

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