Home Morning Routine Visual Schedule Cards

About this resource

A posted, numbered sequence for one everyday home 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 a family can bring to school.

The Routine

• Home Morning Routine (7 steps) — get up, use the bathroom, get dressed, eat breakfast, brush teeth, pack backpack, put on shoes

Every picture was chosen to be named in one word by a young child, in color AND in the black-and-white set. "Get up" is pictured with a bed, the concrete object the step happens at, rather than a clock — a clock face names a device that tells time, not the action of waking, so it is not used anywhere in this file. None of the seven pictures repeats: every step has its own distinct image. These seven steps are one common order, not a rule — the blank cards let a family reorder, shorten, or add a step this set does not name. Cards are 2 inches square.

The Strip

A quick-reference view of the whole morning 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 school-note 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 morning 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 promises no outcome. It carries no prompt hierarchy, fading schedule or mastery rule; how it is used with a child, and for how long, is what your family's or your child's team's plan says. The goal line and the criterion field are blanks for your own wording and your 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

Families building an everyday morning routine with a young, early, or emerging-language child, and the special education teachers, case managers, or home-school liaisons who want that routine to show up as data the classroom team can see.

More In The Collection

This is a set in the Visual Supports Collection, alongside Bathroom and Handwashing Sequence Cards, 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.