Visual cards help children who cannot read yet, and especially autistic pupils and children with communication needs, to understand what comes next and to do their routines on their own. This free printable visual cards generator makes cards, step strips and boards with the same child doing each action.
Student worksheet Every picture shows the action, not an object: “I wash my hands” is a child washing their hands at the sink, not a tap. The sentence is short, in the first person and the present, because autistic pupils read a picture literally.
Hygiene, the toilet, getting dressed, eating, school and bedtime. Choose the pictures you need one by one, from any topic, the size (6, 12 or 20 per sheet) and colour or black and white to colour in.
A strip with the numbered steps and a box to tick them, and a first-then board with two large pictures to show what comes next.
The options you choose, large, under “I want…” for the child to point to what they want to do. Laminate it and use it every day.
Number sense to 5, 10 and 20: how many at a glance (dice, ten frames, rows of five), amount, numeral and word, which has more, number bonds and number lines without numbers, with answers.
Letters that get mixed up: find b, d, p and q, complete picture words, spot backwards letters and numbers and match strings of similar letters, ages 5 to 8, with an answer key.
One sheet per letter or number: trace it, circle it among others, find the picture that begins with it and build the word by cutting out or writing, ages 4 to 7, with an answer key.