Dry your body
The feeling of dampness lingers even where the towel has already been, which is why drying off so often stops halfway and leaves wet legs behind. The steps below move through the body part by part, so your child can see what remains instead of guessing.
♀Dry your body
A girl stands wrapped in a dotted towel and dries her body after the shower.
About this visual support
Knowing when the body is dry is harder than it sounds. The sense of dampness lingers even in places the towel has already covered, and terry cloth drags against skin that is still wet, especially across the back and inside the elbows. The usual outcome is a child who stops halfway, walks into the room with wet legs, leaves the towel on the floor and has cold feet ten minutes later.
Visual support gives drying an order that does not have to be felt out: head, arms, tummy, back, legs, feet. A child with tactile sensitivity gets something to follow instead of a bodily impression that is unreliable at exactly that moment. A tip specific to the towel is to press rather than rub. Lay the towel against the skin and push, which causes less scraping and at the same time gives clearer information about where you are in the sequence.
If you want the steps on your phone, you can assemble them in the Routined app and try it for fourteen days at no cost. The pictures on this page are free to download.