Tidy the garden
Raking leaves never quite ends, and without a visible finish line the energy drains long before the lawn is clear. The pictures below break the work into stages with a clear done to aim for.
♀Tidy the garden
A child holding a rake and a wheelbarrow full of leaves, surrounded by flowers and bushes.
About this visual support
Leaves blow back, the pile scatters and the grass looks the same after twenty minutes of raking. That is the wearing side of garden cleanup: the work is repetitive and the result barely shows, so the brain gets no receipt that anything is done. It becomes hard to keep going, even when the child genuinely wants to help.
Visual support gives the work a shape. When the steps appear, rake together, lift into the barrow, empty onto the compost, the child sees a track with a start and an end instead of an endless surface. Each picture cleared is proof of progress, and that proof is exactly what is missing when the leaves just seem to reappear.
One concrete tip: divide the yard into a few squares and let one picture stand for one square at a time. When a square is done, it is done, even if the wind brings new leaves later. Working toward a bounded patch rather than the whole garden makes the goal reachable within a sensible time.
In Routined you can set the squares up as steps and let the child check off each part outdoors. You can try the app for fourteen days at no cost.