Fly Plane
Playing pilot means roles to share, a mission to invent and rules to agree on, and that very negotiation can stall the game before it starts. The pictures below give the children a shared script, so agreeing comes more easily.
♂Fly plane
A boy dressed as a pilot flies an airplane in the sky.
About this visual support
Playing pilot is as much negotiation as play. Who is the pilot and who is the passenger, where is the plane headed, what are you allowed to do during the flight. For children who like structure that scaffolding is appealing, but agreeing on it with a friend can turn into a conflict before the plane has even taken off.
Visual support helps by placing the rules outside the children, on pictures they can point to rather than squabble over. When there is a picture for the roles, one for where the journey goes and one for what the pilot does, it is easier to come to terms, because it is the picture that decides and not one friend over the other. The structure that makes the game hard to start becomes the very structure that keeps it going.
Let the children swap roles halfway through and mark it with a picture, so you avoid the argument over who got to be pilot longest. The swap becomes part of the game instead of a fight.
If you want to build the airplane game as a series of pictures the children can follow together, you can do it in the Routined app and bring it out the next time they want to play pilot.