Play cards
From the outside it looks like a calm game, but inside the child four things run at once: the rules, their own turn, the opponent's move and how losing might feel. The visual support below breaks it into calm steps.
♂Play cards
A hand holds a fan of cards while another hand lays down an ace of hearts.
About this visual support
A simple card game is not at all simple from the inside. The child has to track their hand and the pile, wait for their turn, read the opponent and at the same time get ready for the possibility of losing. All of that runs in parallel, and it is no wonder a round can boil over into tears or end abruptly.
A visual schedule lowers the temperature by making the invisible rules visible. Deal the cards, look at your hand, play a card, wait for the other player, say nice move or my turn again. The steps stay on the table, and the child can put a hand on the current step instead of being knocked off by a feeling.
A concrete suggestion: turn win or lose into its own card, with both outcomes shown from the start. Then losing is not a shock, but one of two endings the child has already seen. In the Routined app you can save different card-game routines of different lengths, a short version for tired evenings, a longer one for weekends when focus stretches further.