Dry body and hair
The body feels finished long before the hair is, which is how damp hair ends up under a jumper. The visual support below splits the towelling into two separate moments, one for the skin and one for the scalp.
♀Dry body and hair
A girl wrapped in a towel dries her hair with a small towel after the shower.
About this visual support
A towel around the shoulders and a towel in the hair do two different jobs. Skin gets long strokes downwards, hair needs pressing and rubbing against the scalp. To a child stepping out of the shower, the body counts as done the second it stops dripping, and clothes are the far more interesting next thing. Hair sits last in the order, so hair is what gets forgotten.
With both moments shown as their own picture, it becomes visible that the shower is not over after the first one. The hair card stays there waiting, and your child can see that one square is left. A practical trick is two towels in different colours: the big one for the body, the small one only for hair. The colour works as a shortcut your child recognises even on a rushed morning, and you stop repeating the same reminder out loud.
The pictures below are free to download and pin up on the bathroom wall. To keep the same order on a phone, build the shower routine in Routined, with a timer for hair drying and a tick for each step. You can try the app for 14 days at no cost.