Go to Sophie's Farm
Arriving at someone's farm means unfamiliar animals and other people's way of doing things. When a child knows in advance what is coming, it gets easier to settle and dare. The steps below show the visit in a calm order.
♀Walking to the farm
A girl walks along an arrow toward a farm with a signpost, a barn and sheep.
About this visual support
Safety comes from knowing what will happen, and at someone else's farm almost everything is new at once. Which animals live there, where you are allowed to walk, what happens if the sheep comes close. Without answers to those questions, a child often spends its energy on worry instead of on the experience.
The visual support gives the answers before you ring the bell. Once a child has seen who lives on the farm and how a visit usually goes, it becomes predictable rather than unknown. That leaves room to be curious, to pat a sheep or to keep a distance, because the child already knows the boundaries.
One concrete tip: look at the picture of the arrival several times the evening before, so the first step onto the farm feels rehearsed. The moment of stepping into something new is usually the hardest, and a familiar image to lean on makes it easier.
With the Routined app you can gather the pictures from the visit and bring them up right there if the child needs a reminder of what comes next.