Play at grandparents
At home a child knows where the blocks live. At grandma and grandpa's they sit somewhere else, in a room with different furniture and different permissions, and the visual support below makes play during the visit as predictable as it is at home.
♂Play with grandparents
A child sits on the floor building with blocks together with two older people.
About this visual support
A visit to grandma and grandpa moves play into someone else's room. The toys may live in a dresser drawer instead of on a shelf, the rug is not a building surface, and some things on the coffee table are precious and stay where they are. The child has to locate both the toys and the limits all over again, while also greeting a room full of people.
That is exactly why visual support does so much work during visits. A short card sequence showing where the blocks are fetched, where they can be spread out and how they get back in the box before you go home gives the child a map of a house they only enter now and then. The pictures also tell the grandparents something useful: play has a beginning and an end, and nobody has to improvise it each time.
Use a photo of their actual toy box and their actual living room in the sequence. A recognised corner beats a generic illustration when a child has to connect the picture to the room in front of them. With Routined you can keep a visit routine on your phone and open it in the hallway on arrival, and the app can be tried for fourteen days at no cost.