- Wake Up Visual Schedule - Photo by Kelly Pfeiffer
In order to follow and “read” a routine chart for morning activities, preschoolers need a schedule with pictures. Among the many free charts available online for parents, very few feature a morning routine chart with pictures so that young children can wake up and follow a familiar visual schedule. This collection of free printable charts all feature pictures of morning events such as wash face, eat breakfast and get dressed.
Free Printable Morning Routine Chart at Priceless Parenting
This routine chart for mornings by Priceless Parenting is ready to go. It starts with a picture of a clock to signal “wake up” and takes children through the steps of:
- get dressed
- eat breakfast
- brush teeth
- wash face
- comb hair
- get backpack.
Parents can click “print” and begin teaching preschool children to use this picture schedule in minutes. Priceless Parenting offers parenting classes and parenting resources for cost via their website, but makes this morning visual schedule available for parents to print for free.
Free Printable Picture Schedules at Do2Learn
Do2Learn specializes in visual resources for parents and teachers to educate children about daily living skills, reading emotions and preparing for new activities. Do2Learn sells access to a full color version of their “Make a Schedule” product accessible via the website, but chooses to share a portion of their visuals that can be printed for free in a black and white version.
In order to find the free printable graphics of morning activities, parents and teachers must visit the website and hold the mouse on top of the block that reads “Picture Cards” located on the top bar of the Do2Learn website homepage. A selection box will appear and users can choose from the free print sections such as “Home and School”, “Self Help” and “Activities”. Approximately twenty-four black and white pictures are available in each section and visually demonstrate typical morning activities such as “take off pajamas”, “put on clothes”, “eat breakfast”, “take medicine” and more.
Free Printable Morning Routine Chart from Super Nanny
A “Get Up and Go Chart" is available at the Super Nanny website, but parents must first fill out a registration form in order to access the free printouts. Parents can choose from black and white or color graphics of the morning tasks “wash face”, “brush teeth”, “get dressed” and “make bed”.
Although Super Nanny refers to the “Get Up and Go Chart" as a reward chart, parents can fore go the rewards and use the visual schedule simply as a morning routine chart. Some child development experts believe that routine charts that teach life skills work better long term than reward charts that focus children mainly on the reward.
Picture schedules are best for preschoolers and pre-readers to help them learn the steps of a morning or bedtime routine. The free parenting resources above will guide preschool children along their morning activities as well as teach children to be more independent.
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Kelly Pfeiffer - Kelly Pfeiffer teaches Positive Discipline workshops to parents and trains child care providers on various child development topics.
