The Put On Chart by Doorposts is a Biblical character training tool for parents and students and a great, visual learning tool for homeschooling.
I picked up The “Put On” Chart from Doorposts at a homeschool convention one spring. It caught my eye because we enjoy so many of the Doorposts products in our home. Plus, I had been looking for a little something to help end the school year on a positive note. Now, I pull it out again.
Biblical Character Training: The “Put On” Chart by Doorposts
This statement, in the lesson book’s introductory material, caught my attention:
“While we train our children to “take off” sinful behaviors, we must also lead them in “putting on” godly attitudes and actions. If we just focus on the “don’ts, they will most likely grow up to be adults who do not live a life of joy in Christ or truly glorify God. While setting an example with our own joyful obedience, we should pray that our children, like David, will say, “I delight to do Your will, O my God, and Your law is within my heart.” (Psalm 40:8, NKJV)”
Using Doorposts Visual Products in Your Homeschool
We’ve been learning the chart’s focal Bible verse, “Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.” Colossians 3:12-12
What is included in the Put On Chart?
The “Put On” Chart kit comes with a laminated chart, a lesson book full of ideas and a boy and girl paper doll. The children get to dress the paper doll while learning each piece of the verse.
For example, we dressed the paper doll with the “gloves” of compassion (put yourself in someone else’s place. How do they feel? Can you help them feel better? Do it!) and the shoes of kindness (make yourself useful. What can you do to bless someone? Go and do it!)
The study focuses on what the Bible says about the following:
- Compassion
- Kindness
- Humility
- Meekness
- Patience
- Forbearance
- Forgiveness
- Love
What does it cost?
$14.00 for the entire kit – laminated chart, study book and paper dolls.
From their site, “Does anyone in your household ever have trouble being patient? How about compassionate? Or forgiving? As much as we love the members of our own family, it seems like home is where our ability to truly love is put to the greatest test.”
Read all about it, view sample pdf pages: Put On Chart from Doorposts.
And above all these put on love…
More Biblical Character Training Reviews
You will also want to read more about:
- For Instruction in Righteousness: Bible Based Parenting and Character Training (also by Doorposts)
- 30 Bible and Character Training Resources
- Biblically Teaching Character Traits: The Child Training Bible Review
- Portals and Prophets: Biblical Time Travel Game
- Show Me Thy Ways Bible Curriculum
Homeschooling since 2000, Tricia has seen the fruits of home education with four homeschool grads so far! She shares the art and heart of homeschooling at Your Best Homeschool and is author of the book, Help! I’m Homeschooling! She and her husband, Steve, are owners of The Curriculum Choice and sister sites, You ARE an ARTiST, Homeschool Nature Study.
-originally published December 2010 and updated January 2025
Our kids really enjoyed the study book. It is a great visual help for them to remember the attributes. I do need to find a place to hang our wall chart. We all need a little reminding sometimes 🙂
Thank you for this review. I am tyring to find a few “lite” things to do over the summer while we make an international move. I think this will be both fun and educational for my oldest 2.