Take down laundry
Taking down laundry looks simple until you are standing there: the pegs grip tight, the line hangs high and your arms fill up fast. The visual support below splits the gripping, reaching and carrying so small hands can keep up.
♂Boy taking down a shirt
A boy takes a blue t-shirt down from a clothesline in the sunshine.
♂Boy taking down laundry
A smiling boy takes clothes off a clothesline into a basket of laundry.
About this visual support
Laundry on the line makes several demands at once that are invisible from the sofa. The pegs grip hard and need finger strength, the clothes hang higher than a child reaches comfortably, and the moment both hands are full it becomes tricky to release the next peg without dropping what is already held. It is the interplay of grip, stretch and balance that makes a seemingly small chore tiring.
Visual support makes the difference by breaking the task into an order the body can follow: first a picture of pinching the peg open, then taking the garment off, then placing it in the basket before the next one. When every step has its own picture, the child does not have to hold the whole chain in mind while the fingers wrestle with the peg.
A concrete tip: put the basket right under the line and drop each garment in after every peg, so no unmanageable pile builds up in the arms. It helps to show the basket standing close in the pictures too. In Routined you can place the steps in sequence and tick off each garment, so the child can see how many pegs are left.