Unload the dishwasher
Glasses clink, forks drop, and suddenly you stand with a plate in your hand without knowing where it lives. Unloading the dishwasher is a sorting task, not a simple lift. The visual support below shows where each piece belongs.
♂Unload dishwasher
A boy stands next to an open dishwasher and is taking out clean plates.
♂Unload dishwasher
A man takes plates out of a dishwasher.
♀Unload dishwasher
A woman takes plates out of a dishwasher.
About this visual support
What sounds like a quick job is really forty small decisions in a row: where does the bowl go, which drawer hides the whisks, do the glasses sit by size or by colour. Add the risk of dropping something on the tile floor, and the task is bigger than its surface. Many children do not get stuck on the lifting itself but on holding every destination in their head at the same time.
The visual support flattens that decision load by pairing each item with its place. Plates to the cupboard above the microwave, glasses to the top shelf, cutlery to the drawer with the divider. When the picture shows both the object and its destination, the child does not also have to memorise the kitchen, and energy lasts the whole machine instead of half.
One activity-specific trick: always start with the cutlery. Once knives and forks are out of the basket, the risk of cuts drops and the rest of the machine feels safer to work in. In Routined you can photograph your own cupboards and link them to the pictures, so the support matches your kitchen, not an imagined one.