Make a sandwich
Making a sandwich is not one action but a chain of small decisions: which bread, how much butter, which topping when every choice feels equally heavy. The visual support below picks out one decision at a time.
♀A girl making a sandwich
A girl spreading topping on a sandwich.
About this visual support
A sandwich looks simple, but in executive terms it is a small puzzle. Bread has to be chosen, butter spread in roughly the right amount, a topping found in the fridge, and then the actual arrangement has to look like something worth eating. If every decision pops up at once, standing at the counter quickly turns into staring at the counter.
When the pictures split the chain into bread, butter, topping and close, much of the fatigue disappears. The child only has to answer one choice at a time, and the next step is waiting clearly on the next card. The sandwich can be finished without an adult repeating the instructions again and again.
One concrete tip: keep a small basket in the fridge with two or three approved toppings. The topping picture then becomes a choice between known options, not an open question about everything in the fridge. In Routined you can save the sandwich as a reusable sequence, and the child can tick off each step as it is done. The app has a 14-day free trial.