How to make your own grow chart - Arts, Crafts and DIY

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A great home made height chart. We have one in each of the kids rooms and they always want to add their friends – it's really cute! When I was little we measured on a wall and then when we moved house it was all gone and I was so happy this idea means I can take it with me to the next house we move to.

Material

1 length of wide ribbon / fabric
some safety pins / paper clips
2 nails / pins / tape to attach to the wall
some bagage tags (if you want to use different colours per child then make your own baggage tag with a piece of card and a hole punch)
a pen

Method

1 attach your height chart to the wall by either, pinning, drilling or taping it where you want it to go in a straight line. one attached i would mark with a stitch where 1 metres is incase you need to take down and want to know what mark was what height.
Write on the baggage tab the NAME, AGE and DATE of the first person to be measured
now thread your baggage tab through the safety pin and attach to the ribbon in line with the top of their head - i use a book to check.
Measure and pin up all your friends and you can keep a record of everybody's height and how much they grow.

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- hazel
- 18 Feb 2014
  2:39 pm

82 Comments

- - mom19782016 said
  - 16 Oct 2020
    4:14 pm
I’d use markers as I’m a little clumsy and might accidentally move the paperclips

- - mom81879 said
  - 10 Nov 2019
    8:52 am
Hmmm, I think I like my door jamb height chart. I only had 2 kids, so not enough room wasn’t an option. Of course, when we move, it will be left behind. But I wrote all their heights down in their baby books as well

- - mggarner said
  - 25 Jul 2018
    12:53 pm
Just make sure the tag doesn’t fall off
- mggarner replied
  
  11 Aug 2018 , 12:00 am
  It’s a good idea about keeping it for keepsake to see how they’ve grown
- - kjgarner said
  - 22 Jun 2018
    1:48 pm
I very cute and cheap idea
- kjgarner replied
  
  26 Jun 2018 , 11:12 am
  Great way to keep all information about how your child is growing
- - mom19782016 said
  - 18 Oct 2016
    2:01 pm
Well that’s a cool idea!

- - mom109229 said
  - 30 Sep 2015
    9:11 am
This is such a great idea! I might give this a go!

- - dannsbuild said
  - 21 Sep 2015
    7:16 pm
What a really great idea! Thanks for sharing this!

- - Kell said
  - 22 Jun 2015
    10:02 pm
Oh this is very cute Thanks for sharing!

- - mom140125 said
  - 18 May 2015
    6:49 pm
Great idea thanks

- - bubble6369 said
  - 26 Mar 2015
    12:21 am
what a sweet little idea this is!

- - mom57522 said
  - 11 Jan 2015
    3:36 pm
So much easier to move then our skinny piece of wood.

- - mom93821 said
  - 12 Dec 2014
    6:46 am
Thanks for sharing this creative and clever idea.
- mom93821 replied
  
  02 Mar 2017 , 5:32 am
  Such good idea for people on the move.
- - mom94125 said
  - 01 Nov 2014
    2:22 am
i love how even if you move house, you can still keep this precious record of your child’s growing up. great idea
- mom94125 replied
  
  07 Oct 2015 , 6:39 pm
  thanks so much for this remarkable idea. very lovely to keep their height chart
- - ginoula5 said
  - 10 Aug 2014
    6:54 pm
absolutely love this idea! thanks so much

- - fizgig said
  - 02 Aug 2014
    11:21 pm
This is cool as you can take it with you if you move house. We have 4 floor length doors and each on the children have a door. Their height and date are recorded with Gray lead pencil and then spray with hair spray so it doesn’t rub off.

- - mom70050 said
  - 30 Jul 2014
    11:32 am
Oh that’s brilliant. I wish we had this when we were young! thanks for sharing.

- - sageekins said
  - 19 Jul 2014
    3:31 pm
Such a clever idea!!!

- - meedee said
  - 13 Jul 2014
    1:54 pm
Thats a lovely idea. Ive lived in this house for 22 years and have a wall in my kitchen where all of my kids heights have been marked. We are supposed to be renovating the kitchen some time over then next 2 years or so and im sad to see the height chart wall go.

- - Happy_Dayz said
  - 06 Jul 2014
    8:44 pm
This is a really cute idea

- - fionaellis said
  - 04 Jul 2014
    10:21 pm
Excellent idea. Thanks for sharing.