Empty laundry basket
To a child an empty basket is a fuzzy goal, and it is hard to tell when the job is actually finished. The visual support below shows the whole way from full basket to clothes put away, so the ending becomes something a child can see.
Empty laundry basket
An empty beige laundry basket with a blue cloud and two arrows above.
Empty laundry basket
An empty blue plastic laundry basket.
Empty laundry basket
An empty beige woven laundry basket.
Empty laundry basket
An empty pale blue plastic laundry tub.
Empty laundry basket
An empty white laundry basket.
Empty laundry basket
An empty light blue laundry basket with round holes on the side.
Empty laundry basket
An empty brown woven laundry basket.
Empty laundry basket
An empty white laundry basket with handles on the sides.
About this visual support
To a child an empty basket is a goal without a clear shape, easy to start and easy to abandon halfway. A child knows the laundry should go away, but cannot tell where the job ends until every item is in its place, and the pile still looks big long after real progress has been made.
Visual support gives the ending a shape. One picture of the full basket and one of the clothes put away show what counts as finished, and a child can compare what is in front of them with the goal picture. A concrete trick is to make the last image the empty basket back in its usual spot, so the child knows exactly where it belongs when everything is done and does not have to ask whether it is over.
In Routined you can put the pictures in order and let the child check off each step up to the empty basket. If you would rather have them on the wall, the images here can be downloaded and printed.
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