Looking for a simple kids schedule or morning routine for school with sequencing cards? This routine and sequencing activity is easy to put together. Children thrive on routine and knowing what to expect each day. Our morning routine for school is very basic. I expect each of my children to wake up, brush their teeth, get dressed, eat breakfast and then get to school on time. If you randomly do something that they weren’t expecting then this leads to tantrums. You could use this morning routine for toddlers if your child is in school or wait and use it with your preschooler or kindergarten. One things for sure, children will love this morning routine for school sequencing activity while Mom’s will love how this simplifies the whole process!
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Morning Routine For School
Having three kids means I have seen three different morning personalities. I had one child that wouldn’t eat in the morning, brushing teeth always seemed low on their list and another child that wouldn’t eat breakfast in the morning. Maybe you have a child that wont get dressed in the morning. With back to school right around the corner I was thinking about how to get the kids ready for school fast. I then remembered how we previously used a checklist to make this possible.
As an adult, you may wonder how this could possibly work. These printable morning routine flash cards seem too simple and like common sense. Yes, to you it may be common sense but to your child it lets them know what is expected of them and what should normally happen each morning. Plus the adorable graphics just make it that much more likely that they will want to use the sequencing cards.
Also check out the kids chore chart and routine chart.
Materials Required:
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- Cardstock
- Velcro Dots
- Laminator with laminating sheets
- Scissor to cut everything out. I use my paper trimmer. It’s a lot quicker.
How to prepare the morning routine activity:
I have included a few different pages depending on the routine base that you would like. There is a blue, pink and yellow one.
Print out your required page on card stock paper. (You can find all my exact preschool supplies recommendations here and on my Alphabet Activities for kids page.)
Print and cut out the daily routine picture cards, laminate them, add velcro tabs and you are ready to go:
Kids Schedule
If you chose the smaller routine base then you can keep the cards in an envelope to use each morning.
If you use the larger base for the picture sequencing cards so that you can store the cards on that page then it will look like the following:
Each morning should begin like this:
All the sequencing cards should be at the bottom. In the morning, your child will do these tasks and each time they do a task they move the appropriate card to the top. It serves as a morning routine for school checklist.
Once they complete all the tasks in their school morning routine you could give them a sticker as an incentive.
Potty Routine Addition
I have had a lot of requests for a restroom addition. You can get the small restroom addition file here.
This set includes boy and girl routine cards.
Where to get the activity
GET THE MORNING ROUTINE CARDS HERE
Looking for more routine cards? You can check out these after school cards from Living Locurto. You can also find morning routine tips here at AFineparent.
I hope these help your morning routine for school days run much more smoothly.
You can find the bedtime routine sequencing activity here.
Update- I have added the boy routine cards to the pack. I have included extras so that you can adapt the children’s schedule cards to your kids schedule.
Oh I love this! My son has Sensory Processing Disorder and we live by routines. He has a schedule card at school and at therapy but I haven’t been able to find one that i like for home! This is great please can I get a download with boy images.
I would love a boy set as well! Any chance we could have a blank template one for a chore or other less common item we’d like to have in their routine?
Hi Could I get the boy set as well please.
Tanya
Hi Tanya,
The printable does include the boy set, I updated the file a while back and included the update above. Just download like normal and you will see both the male and female set.
-Nadia
Hello! I would love a boy one please, my new Kindergarten boy had one last year, and he would love a velcro one! Thanks, I love your website. I am a preschool teacher and it has been very helpful, I found a lot of items to help start the school year!!
Amanda
I love this idea, but I have a little boy. Do you have the boy set available ?
These cards are great! We are always trying to enable independence with our children.
A set of boy cards would be great for our family and if you were ever interested I find black and white cards great. We don’t have a color printer.
Definitely need a boy one! This looks awesome!
Nadia could I have the morning routine chart for boys, please?
KSoo
Hi-love your printables! I teach a self-contained preschool handicapped class and use your ideas and printables often. Thank you-you make my job easier!
I know many of my students have difficulties following a school morning routine-mostly because they don’t have a routine. I often talk with the parents of my students about setting up a routine and give them ideas to follow, but it doesn’t seem to happen. I think if the parents had your morning routine chart it would be helpful for the whole family. As all my students are boys I can’t wait until you get those pictures completed.
Thanks again. Marilyn
Would love a BOY version for my grandson. He’s under the autistic spectrum so having goals would help so much. What a wonder project~
I would love to have a boy set as well. Any chance it is available yet?
I would love a boy set please. My son has a hard time transitioning and this could really help us in the morning.
Love these cards. I would love boy cards if available.
Do you have the boy set yet? This is great! My wild boy needs this asap!
I am looking for a boy set as well. Let me know when it’s available.
Hi Ruth, the boy set is included in the PDF.
I would love the boy schedule too. Thank you for sharing this!!!
Hi nadia this looks great, could I please have a boy one x
Many thanks.Do you do evening routine ones for boys as well x
Did you see it in the PDF? It was added last year.
Could I please have a boy morning routine set
I think this would help my boy a lot
Thank you
Sure. It was added directly to the PDF
Hi,
Do you have one like this for the night routine? It would be really helpful 🙂
Thank you
Yes see Bedtime Routine
I would love the lirrle boy cards too!!!! thank you Angela
Awesome. They are added to the PDF
Hi there, thanks for these! Would you be able to send me a girls sequencing card for using the toilet that would fit on the morning routine chart? I was hoping to replace the wake up card with a “use the toilet” card – we are currently training our toddler out of pull ups and to use the bathroom right away when she gets up.
Thanks
Hi, I have just added a potty/restroom update here.
I would like to get a copy of the boy version if I can. Thank you.
Thank you so much for your Morning routine schedules. I love it and also my 1st grade students will enjoy.
Thank you again .
This may be a picky request, but my son is upset that the boy has dark hair. My son has blonde hair and would like the boy to as well. Is that an option? Thank you so much for even considering it!
Hi Megan, I’d love to help but unfortunately I do not design the clip art myself. I don’t have those artistic abilities and therefore use clip art that is already created. Hair color is determined by the clip art creator.