Floss your teeth
Guiding the floss between the teeth takes precision, and fingers in the mouth against the gums can feel uncomfortable. The pictures below break the task down so the hands know what to do, bit by bit.
♂Floss your teeth
A child uses a floss pick to clean between the teeth while smiling.
About this visual support
The floss has to slip into a narrow gap, curve around the tooth and move up and down, all while the fingers are inside the mouth and the gums protest a little. It is one of the fiddliest fine motor jobs in the bathroom, and for a child who has not yet found the knack it easily turns frustrating and gets abandoned halfway.
Visual support splits flossing into graspable parts: pull out a length of floss, wind it around the fingers, start at the back, one gap at a time, rinse. When each step has a picture, it becomes clear where you are and how many teeth are left, so the hand can practise one thing at a time without the whole mouth feeling like one big demand.
One concrete tip: start with just the back molars the first few times, so the child practises the motion where it shows least, before moving to the front teeth. In Routined you can add flossing as its own step after brushing and try the routine for fourteen days at no cost.