Daycare pickup
Small children do not measure time in hours, they measure it in events. The pictures below answer the questions of when and who in concrete form, so your child can carry the day with a visible ending in mind.
♂Dad picking up child
A man hugging a child with a house and a sun in the background.
About this visual support
The question shows up already at drop-off: when are you coming, and is it really you? For a small child, after snack is not enough. Time without an anchor becomes endless, and endless is hard to sit through. Visual support flips this: instead of an abstract hour, the child gets a picture of what happens right before pick-up, so the body knows that now it is almost.
What separates a good pick-up picture from a generic one is the person. Use a real photo of who is actually coming on Wednesday, and a different one for Friday. Staff can then refer to the picture if your child asks, and the answer stays the same no matter which staff member meets the question.
Add a picture of the route home, ideally with a landmark, the playground next to daycare or the bridge, so the trip home also becomes a visible part of the end. In the Routined app you can mark who picks up on each weekday, and your child can check the phone in the morning and see today's grown-up.