Put laundry
Laundry isn't one task, it's a string of halves: a load going in, one coming out, one waiting to hang, one forgotten in the drum. Without a visible marker the brain can't tell where the loop ends. The steps below set out the start and the finish.
♀Put laundry
A person putting colored clothes into a gray laundry basket.
♀Put laundry
A person putting colorful clothes into a washing machine.
♀Put laundry
An illustration of a woman putting laundry into a washing machine.
About this visual support
Loading a washing machine asks for a sequence that doesn't look like one neat task. Sort darks and lights, load, dose, choose a program, start. Then a forty-minute pause. Then out, onto the line or into the dryer, out again, fold. For the brain the rounds blur into each other, and the usual result is one load left in the drum until the smell reminds someone.
A picture sequence gives each substep its own square and clearly breaks the run between loading and unloading. The child doesn't need more information, just more visible endings. A final card for each phase – a closed machine door, an empty basket – says the bit is counted and complete.
One tip: split the strip into two blocks — load and unload — with a pause card between them. It makes it visually obvious that the rounds are separate. In Routined you can drop that forty-minute gap in as its own item, so the start of part two arrives as a notification rather than something to hold in mind.