Help with the laundry

#laundry#washing machine#chore#clothes#helping

Helping with the laundry feels big, but also a little vague, where do you even start? The pictures below break the laundry into clear tasks, so a child can own one step at a time without losing track.

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Load laundry

A girl puts a shirt into the washing machine next to a pile of colorful clothes.

About this visual support

Helping with the laundry feels big to a child, big and blurry at the same time. Laundry is really many small steps in a row, sorting darks and lights, loading the machine, adding detergent, hanging things up, and a child who does not know which of them is theirs easily loses the thread and drifts off.

Visual support helps by pointing out the child's own part. When each step has its own picture, you can give the child one step that is entirely theirs, for example putting the wet clothes in the dryer, and the rest becomes clearly yours. Then the child does not have to guess and can feel that the task really got done from start to finish.

In Routined you can pick out the pictures that suit the child's age and place them in the order you do the laundry at home. If you want to start simply, the images here can be downloaded and put up by the machine.