Do activities
What do you want to do now? For many children that question is empty, because activities can mean anything and nothing. The pictures below make the invisible choices visible, so your child can point at one thing instead of staying stuck in the blank.
♀Do activities
A happy girl with arms raised surrounded by a ball, a star and a paintbrush, ready to do different activities.
About this visual support
Asking what your child wants to do sounds kind, but it hands a heavy job to a small brain. Activities aren't something you can see or touch, they're a heap of everything at once: puzzles, outdoor play, drawing, building, nothing at all. With nothing to point at, many children get stuck on the choosing itself and never reach the play.
Visual support moves the choice out of the head and onto the table. Three or four pictures of possible activities make the abstract graspable: now there are four things, not endless ones, and your child only has to choose between what's lying there. Fewer options, but visible, are almost always easier than endless invisible ones.
A tip: lay out only two or three pictures at a time and swap them during the day, so the choice feels small rather than like a whole menu to take in.
Download free pictures here and set up a little choice board in the Routined app, so your child can pick the day's thing right on the screen.