RoutinedGet out ingredients
Halfway through the batter you discover the eggs are gone. The visual support below helps your child set everything out on the counter first, so the baking or cooking can run all the way through without a pause.
♂Get out ingredients
Boy taking flour out of the pantry with eggs and an apple on the counter
About this visual support
Chefs call it mise en place: everything is set out before the first measure goes into the bowl. For a child it matters even more. When the flour is in the pantry and the butter in the fridge, every step of the recipe becomes an interruption, and interruptions are where attention drifts off or someone knocks over the bag of flour. Gathering everything first splits the job into two calmer parts: fetch first, then make.
The picture card shows exactly that first stage. Your child can see that the task is opening cupboards and putting things out, not starting to mix. It also becomes a natural check. If everything is on the counter, you know the recipe will work, and if something is missing you notice before the batter is half done.
A practical tip: lay out small pictures of the recipe's ingredients next to the card and let your child move each picture onto a plate once that item is on the counter. That way it is obvious what is still left to fetch. In the Routined app you can make getting out ingredients the first step of a baking routine and add the rest of the recipe after it. You can try the app for 14 days without paying.
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