Unpack
A pile without addresses is an impossible whole, and the child stalls before lifting the first item. The visual support below gives every object a place to go.
♂A boy unpacks clothes and fruit from a box.
A boy kneels and unpacks clothes and fruit from a cardboard box. There are more boxes and a stack of folded clothes next to him.
♂A man unpacks a blue shirt from a box.
A man stands and unpacks a blue shirt from a cardboard box containing more clothes.
About this visual support
The block in unpacking rarely lives in the arms. It lives in deciding where everything belongs. A box or a pile asks the brain to hold the whole room at once, and that capacity runs out fast after a move or a trip.
Visual support turns the whole into a visible sequence. When each picture points to a fixed home — books on the shelf, clothes in the drawer, toys in the bin by the bed — the hidden decision disappears. The child does not have to invent an order, only follow the picture on top. Working one room at a time keeps the task small enough to feel doable.
A concrete tip: arrange the cards in the order things will come out of the box, not the order you would have chosen. The child can lift from the top and you skip the negotiation about where to start. In the Routined app the cards link to a timer and check-off, so unpacking gets both momentum and a clear end.