Lay the table
Four people eating means four plates, four glasses and four sets of cutlery, and then every item has to land on the correct side. The pictures below hold both the counting and the placing, so a child can work it out alone.
♂Set the table
A boy sets a table with plates, glasses, cutlery and napkins.
About this visual support
Laying the table is arithmetic dressed up as a chore. First the child has to remember how many people are sitting down, then multiply that by plate, glass and cutlery, and finally give every item a fixed position. That is three things to hold at once, and it is usually where the whole thing falls apart: someone ends up with two glasses and someone with none.
Pictures split the counting into rounds. One image per type of object lets the child carry all the plates first, then all the glasses, then the cutlery, instead of juggling everything in one trip. An image of a finished place setting seen from above also settles the side question: knife on the right, fork on the left, glass above the plate.
A practical trick: make a paper placemat with the outlines of plate, glass and cutlery drawn on it and put one at every chair. The child matches object to shape and does not have to remember the layout at all, and after a few dinners the outlines can go. If you want the whole mealtime routine in one place, Routined keeps the pictures, the order and the ticking off together, free to try for fourteen days.