Walk the bike
A curb appears, traffic thickens, or the hill turns too steep — and the bike has to be walked. For the child that means changing the body's gear mid-motion. The visual support below marks the switch so the change does not crash into the movement itself.
♂Boy walking with a bike
A smiling boy in a blue t-shirt and black shorts walking beside a red bicycle while holding the handlebars.
About this visual support
Walking the bike looks tame, but for a child's body it is one of the more confusing transitions of the day. The legs are set to pedal, one hand grips tight on the handlebar, and suddenly the pace has to drop to walking speed while the arm carries the vehicle alongside. No wonder the first metres come out jerky, or the child swings straight back into the saddle after ten steps.
Framing the walking part as its own activity rather than a boring pause in the ride helps. A picture of the bike being walked next to a person makes clear that this is a step on its own. Concrete tip: tie the walking-the-bike card to a specific stretch — across the crossing, up to the playground, over the hill. The child knows both where the walking starts and where it ends, and avoids the feeling of being punished mid-trip.
In the Routined app you can drop walk the bike in as its own step inside a longer outing routine, so the switch is just as visible as the pedalling itself. The hill stops being the end of the trip and becomes simply the next picture in the row.