Put away
Putting away sounds simple, yet it has no clear start and no clear end, which is exactly what makes it hard to begin at all. The visual support below gives the task visible edges.
♂Put away
A smiling boy puts a toy car and a building block into a green storage box. Arrows indicate the action of putting items inside.
About this visual support
The hardest part of tidying up is not the actual tidying, it is the moment when the brain has no idea where to start and no idea when it is allowed to stop. For a child with weaker executive function, a room with things everywhere reads as a sticky mass rather than a list, and most of the energy gets spent just sizing it up.
With visual support the task gets sliced into manageable blocks: all cars into the box, all books on the shelf, all clothes in the basket. Each picture becomes a small task with a clean edge, and once the picture is done, it is done. The child stops comparing themselves to an endless room and starts working through one limited step at a time.
A concrete tip: tidy by category, not by area. Gathering all the soft animals is easier than tidying the whole sofa corner, because the brain gets a single pattern to look for. In Routined you can build the clean up as a short routine and try the app free for fourteen days.