Dress for the weather
Knowing how it feels outside before stepping out is hard, and the link between a grey sky and a rain jacket is not obvious to a child. The pictures below make the weather visible and show which clothes go with it.
♀Choose clothes for the weather
A child chooses clothes based on the weather, with sun, t-shirt and shorts for warm days and clouds, snow and warm winter clothes for cold days.
About this visual support
A grey sky often means a rain jacket, but a child does not know that on their own. Dressing for the weather rests on an abstract judgement: you have to picture how cold, wet or warm it will be before you have even opened the door. That mental leap is hard, especially on a rushed morning when clothes need to go on fast.
This is where visual support helps, by pairing a kind of weather with a set of clothes. Sun next to a cap and t-shirt, rain next to boots and a jacket, snow next to mittens and a hat. The child no longer has to translate a feeling in the air into garments alone and can instead match picture to picture.
One concrete tip: look out the window together first, point at what you see, and let the child choose the right weather picture before the clothes come out. That makes the link between outside and inside clear. In Routined you can place the weather pictures into the dressing routine and try the setup for fourteen days at no cost.