Help clean up
The floor is covered in bricks, cars and an upside-down puzzle, and the request to tidy up meets a pile with no way in. The visual support below turns that pile into a handful of steps with a clear starting point.
♂Put the toys away
A boy kneels on the floor and puts building blocks into a yellow box.
About this visual support
What stalls tidying up is rarely willingness. A pile of mixed things offers no natural boundaries, and without boundaries a child cannot tell where the task starts or when it is finished. The brain gets one large lump to deal with, and the usual result is that the child sits down and starts playing with the first object instead.
This is where visual support does something very concrete: it divides the pile. One picture for the cars, one for the bricks, one for the books and one for the soft toys turns a vague assignment into four bounded rounds with a visible end. The child can see how many steps are left, and each finished picture gives a small sense of having got somewhere.
A tip that tends to work is sorting by container rather than by room: everything that goes in the blue box first, then the next box. The pictures then connect to a physical place instead of an abstract category. If you want the same split on a screen, you can build it in Routined and try the app for 14 days at no cost.