Tidy up
Tidying up is less about hands and more about memory: where do the pens live, where do the socks live, where does that lego piece live. The visual support below works as an external map when the internal one is offline.
♂Boy cleaning up
An icon of a boy cleaning up. He is holding a red item over a yellow bin with one hand and sweeping dirt with a broom with the other hand. There is a green ball and a purple toy car on the floor.
About this visual support
Tidying up looks like a motor task but is really a memory task. For every object the brain has to answer where does this live? Pens in the cup, socks in the drawer, lego piece in the box, mug in the sink. When the mental map of the home is fully loaded it runs by itself. When it is not, which is often for kids under ten and plenty over ten, the tidying stalls in the middle of the room.
Visual support replaces the internal memory with an external one. Each card shows a category and a destination: toys here, clothes here, books here. The child no longer has to rebuild the map from scratch each time and can focus on moving things instead of figuring out where they belong. Four or five categories is usually enough.
One concrete tip: walk around the room first and point out the zones out loud before the tidying begins. Here is where the books live. Here is where the toys live. Saying it before hands start working cuts down on pauses later. In Routined you can save those zone images for the room so the map stays around between cleanups.