Wipe stove
A stove looks cold long before it actually is. That is exactly why wiping the stove is one of the chores where a picture has to come before the hand. The steps below start with a hover-check above the plate, not with the cloth.
♂Wipe stove
A boy wiping a stove with a yellow sponge.
About this visual support
The kitchen is one of the few places where children want to help with things that can actually hurt them. Plates hold their heat long after cooking, grease blends into shiny steel, and a palm that tests too fast has already learned the wrong lesson before the pain even arrives. Wiping the stove therefore needs a rule before every movement.
Visual support makes the safety rules as visible as the wiping steps themselves. One picture shows a hand held ten centimeters above the plate, feeling for heat. Another shows that grease needs a little dish soap, not just water. A third shows wiping away from the body so crumbs do not land in the apron pocket.
Let the child always do the heat-check together with you the first time of the day, even if the wiping itself becomes independent later. That tiny pause builds a habit that holds even when you are not in the room. To connect the chore to the rest of the evening tidy-up, you can drop the same steps into a kitchen routine in Routined.