Handwashing and Bathroom Sequence Cards

About this resource

A posted, numbered sequence for two everyday routines 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 Sequences

• Handwashing (5 steps) — water on, wet hands, soap, rinse, paper towel
• Bathroom Routine (5 steps) — knock, go, toilet paper, flush, wash hands

Every picture was chosen to be named in one word by a young child, in color AND in the black-and-white set. "Scrub" is not a separate card: no Unicode picture shows two hands rubbing together, so it is folded into the Soap step, whose lather already draws the lathering. "Flush" draws the same toilet picture as "Go" plus a drop of water, so the two are never the same card by accident. "Paper towel" (Handwashing) and "Toilet paper" (Bathroom Routine) share one honest roll-of-paper picture under two different, still-accurate words, the same way "Soap" (Handwashing) and "Wash hands" (Bathroom Routine) share one soap-bar picture — the point where the bathroom routine sends a student straight into the handwashing sequence. Cards are 2 inches square.

The Strip

A quick-reference view of both routines 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.

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 two everyday routines, and a place to record whether each step needed help. It is not a hygiene or safety procedure, a behavior plan, or a program of any kind, and it promises no outcome. 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, case managers who need that teaching to show up as data, and the families who get the home page sent home.

More In The Collection

This is the third set in the Visual Supports Collection, alongside First-Then Board and Activity Picture Cards and Break Cards and Choice Board; 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.