Go to the store
Inside the store a lot happens at once, while the adult's eyes drift down to the shopping list. The cards below hold the visit together without needing constant explanation.
♂Pushing a shopping cart to the store
A person pushes a shopping cart filled with an apple, milk, bananas, and other groceries towards the entrance of a store.
♂Carrying a shopping basket to the store
A person carries a shopping basket containing an apple and other items, pointing towards a brick store entrance.
♂Leaving the store with a shopping bag
A person walks away from a store, holding a blue shopping bag with a cart icon and a set of keys.
♂Standing at the store with a shopping cart
A person stands smiling next to an empty shopping cart outside a store building with a shopping bag icon.
♀Walking to the store with a shopping bag
A person walks towards a green store building, holding a brown shopping bag. The store has a shopping cart icon sign.
♀Carrying a shopping basket to the store
A person walks towards a store entrance, smiling and carrying a red shopping basket filled with an apple and bread.
About this visual support
A store is the kind of place adults filter out without thinking: the hum of fluorescent lights, the beep of scanners, carts rolling past, queues forming. For a child it is fresh every time, and right when the input is heaviest the adult often breaks eye contact to read the list.
The visual gives the child their own thread to follow while your focus is on the groceries. Show entrance, cart, produce, dairy aisle, checkout, pay, exit. Practical tip: let the child carry one of the printed cards and tick it off out loud as you pass each station, so the trip becomes a shared task instead of waiting.
The same flow fits into the Routined app if you want a timer and check-off too. You can try it for 14 days at no cost.