Getting Ready for Outside Routine Visual Schedule Cards

About this resource

A posted, numbered sequence for a cold-weather getting-ready-for-outside routine that comes with its own data. Most routine-sequence sets stop at the pictures; this one adds a completion log, a weekly roll-up and a phrase bank behind it, so a step that stops needing a prompt turns into a line on a page a case manager can bring to a meeting.

The Routine

• Getting Ready for Outside (5 steps) — put on your coat, put on your scarf, put on your gloves, put on your boots, line up

Every picture was checked directly at card size, in color AND in the black-and-white set, before this file was built: a coat, a scarf, a pair of gloves, a boot, and two figures for lining up. Each picture renders clearly and distinctly from every other picture in the bank. The boots picture is a hiking boot (neither art set has a separate snow-boot or rain-boot picture); the word "Boots" carries the general category, and the file says so plainly on the strip page.

The Strip

A quick-reference view of the whole routine in numbered order on one page, in color and in ink-saver, so the fixed order is visible at a glance without cutting anything apart. The number prints on every cut-apart card too, so a dropped or reshuffled set can always be put back in order. The routine ends at "line up," a stable, ready-to-go state — what happens once the group is outside is a different routine.

What This Is, And What It Is Not

It is a fillable PDF: type into the log, the roll-up, the family page, the hand-off page and the blank cards, or print and use a pen. The card and strip pages print on cardstock or plain paper and cut along dashed lines. It works offline with no account or subscription. It is NOT an editable online slideshow or word-processor document.

It is a posted, numbered picture sequence for one everyday cold-weather routine, and a place to record whether each step needed help. It is not a safety procedure, a behavior plan, or a program of any kind, and it sets no temperature or coat-required rule — that is your district's or family's own call. It carries no prompt hierarchy, fading schedule or mastery rule; how it is used with a student, and for how long, is what your team's plan says. The goal line and the criterion field are blanks for your district's own wording and your team's own number. The log counts one thing per step: whether help was needed, not what kind or in what order to remove it.

Who This Is For

Special education teachers and paraprofessionals who teach everyday routine sequences to early, pre-reading or emerging-language students, families who practice the same routine at home before cold-weather mornings, case managers who need that teaching to show up as data, and anyone running the same routine with a student in another setting.

More In The Collection

This is part of the Visual Supports Collection Bundle, packaged together at 35% off buying them separately (each board keeps its own file), alongside Hallway Routine Visual Schedule Cards, Getting Dressed Routine Visual Schedule Cards, Recess Routine Visual Schedule Cards, and other routine-sequence sets; more picture-card sets — routine strips, choice boards, calm-down cards — are being added to the collection regularly, all on the same cards-plus-data shape.

Pictures (color pages): Noto Emoji by Google, Apache License 2.0. Pictures (ink-saver pages): Fluent Emoji, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, MIT License.