SchKIDule's Visual Schedule For Kids: HOME COLLECTION

Making visual schedules for kids easy and accessible to parents, teachers, and therapists is our specialty! SchKIDules Home Collection magnet set provides you with the ability to make an instant visual schedule on any magnetic surface. Common places are a white board or the refrigerator. If you are looking for the SchKIDules Starboard, please see our bundles. Visual schedules are essential tools for communicating more effectively and efficiently with children. They can increase cooperation, improve self-management, reduce anxiety and so much more.

93 PC HOME COLLECTION

SchKIDules 93 Piece Home Collection comes with 72 home themed activity magnets and 21 headings magnets designed to help you set up daily, weekly, partial day and sequential visual schedules. Each magnet is 2x2 and dry erase friendly.

This set features daily routines, meals, extracurricular, appointments, chores, special events and playtime activities.

Magnet List

art, bath, bedtime, bike, breakfast, brush teeth (x2), clean room, clear stairs, clear table, comb hair, dance, dentist, dessert, dinner, dishes, doctor, drink, family time, feed pets, free time, games, garbage, get dressed, going out, gymnastics, haircut, hat and gloves, homework, jacket, laundry, library, lights off, lotion, lunch, make bed, movie night, music, nap, out to eat, outside play, pack backpack, pajamas, party, pick up toys, play date, playground, puzzles, reading, restroom, school, set the table, shoes, shopping, shower, snack, special event, sports, swim, tablet, toy time, trip, TV, unpack backpack, video games, vitamin, wake up, walk, wash face, wash hands, worship, zoo/aquarium.

1. Master Routines: SchKIDules makes it easier for kids to recognize and learn their daily routines. Kids do not always pick up on trends and often the abstract can feel very chaotic or spontaneous. Showing your child visually that, for instance, the same 3 steps are expected upon arriving home from school will help them internalize the process and remember it next time.

2. Language Permanence: If your child is easily distracted, forgets often, or asks you to repeat yourself, a visual schedule provides the language permanence that will help reduce these issues. When we speak, our words are only available for a moment. When we support speech with something tangible like pictures, kids can refer to it for as long as he/she needs.

3. Foster Independence: Kids need guidance at all different levels. A visual schedule can help provide quiet guidance that will help him/her be more independent and feel more confident.

4. Relieve Anxiety: Whether the anxiety is mild or severe, kids can experience it when they don’t know what to expect. Some kids crave the knowledge and feel uneasy not knowing what to plan for (Type-As). Others sense “chaos” when they don’t have a grasp on what’s to come which can make a child feel very anxious. Either way, an anxious child is not a relaxed child and is therefore more prone to behavioral problems. Sharing “what’s next” or what’s happening that day can provide a sense of calm, predictability and safety. This, in turn, will reduce their anxiety as well as provide a platform for your child to share their concerns and questions.

5. Build Self Confidence: Visual schedule often result in more successful behavior. Successful behavior generally receives praise and praise builds self confidence.

6. Establish Trust: One wouldn't think visual schedules would have anything to do with trust when in actuality it can help build it. Sharing what's next builds trust because you are including your child in your plan which makes them feel more respected. Following through on that plan then tells them they can trust what you share.

7. Increased Cooperation: There are two reasons visual schedules boost compliant behavior. First, children are always going to test the boundaries. Having a visual schedule with they day's plan will reduce this likelihood. When a child sees no plan, they may interpret that to mean there is no plan. And no plan means it's up for negotiation. When a parent posts the plan for the day, the child can see this has already been decided by the person in charge and there is probably little wiggle room for it to be altered. Second, some kids may see that plan and still not like, for example, that there is a dentist appointment today. However, by posting that plan from the start of the day, that child has a long time to get used to, or "cope' with this news. Sometimes kids need this time to get used to a disappointing idea. On the other hand, if you wait until its time to leave, it is quite possible that child has a meltdown.