Put on PJs
Many children resist changing because the day does not feel done yet, and the PJs end up as an obstacle in the middle of the room. The visual support below shows how the transition can keep gliding forward.
♀Put on pajamas
A happy person in blue and white striped pajamas.
About this visual support
Transitions are often harder than the activities themselves, and the move from open evening to PJs is one of the heaviest. It is not the change of clothes that meets resistance, but the idea that the day rolls on while the child is not yet done with what is happening.
Visual support gives that transition its own place. When the picture of the PJs sits as one step in a visible chain, it becomes clear that the bedtime routine has already started and that the change is part of it, not an abrupt end to play. Many children need that sense of continuation, not a stop.
A small touch: add a short pause between the previous activity and the PJ picture, for example a card for closing books or putting one thing away. That marks the end of the old before the new begins. To build the evening in an app, Routined can stitch the sequence together with visual support and a timer, with a 14-day free trial.