Bake
The fun of baking is stirring, rolling and tasting, but between the steps sit long waits while the dough rests and the oven does its work. With the steps laid out as pictures, the child can see the waiting has an end. Follow the order below.
♀Rolling out dough
A child wearing an apron rolling out dough with a rolling pin, with cookie cutters nearby.
About this visual support
Baking tests patience in a particular way. The doing itself is fun, but between the steps sits dead time: the dough has to rest, the oven has to heat, the cookies have to cool. For a child living in the moment, each of those pauses feels endless, and that's often when the whole project threatens to fizzle out.
Visual support helps by making both the steps and the pauses visible. When the wait itself becomes its own picture, with a symbol for the resting dough, it turns into a step you pass through rather than an empty gap. The child sees how many stages are done and how few remain, and that gives direction through the long chain.
A concrete tip is to give the child a small task of their own during the wait, tied to the next picture: set out the paper cases while the oven heats, or fetch the sprinkles. The empty time fills with something meaningful that still belongs to the baking.
If you want to save your particular cookie routine, you can add the steps to the Routined app and pull up the same order the next time you bake together.