Empty bag
A school bag isn't one thing — it's several errands at once. The lunchbox heads to the kitchen, the gym clothes to the laundry, the note to the fridge door. The visual support below splits the bag into destinations instead of one big pile.
Empty bag
A brown paper bag with a downward arrow, symbolizing emptying.
♀Empty bag
A brown paper bag with small blue abstract shapes, representing items, spilled out below it.
About this visual support
What looks like one step — empty the bag — is really four or five. The lunchbox has to reach the kitchen before it gets forgotten at the bottom with the crumbs. The gym clothes should land in the laundry basket while they still smell distinct enough to end up in the right wash. The note from the teacher has to reach an adult who can read it before Monday. And the bag itself has to hang where it belongs, so the next morning doesn't start with searching.
It isn't the amount of stuff that's tricky, it's that everything has to go in different directions at once. Pictures handle exactly that part: each item in the bag gets its own card and its own destination. When your child sees the row, they understand the task isn't finished just because the zipper is open.
A concrete tip for the bag: use a separate card row for each room destination — kitchen, laundry basket, fridge door, hook. Then it's your child moving the things, not you calling out what's next. In the Routined app you can build the sequence so it kicks in when the school day ends and closes when the bag hangs empty on its hook.