Visual Shopping Plan

Visual Shopping Plan

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When it comes to a child’s meltdowns in a store, the most effective remedy is what you do BEFORE you arrive at the store. Using the pages in this document, make a visual shopping plan and teach it prior to your next visit to the grocery store. Children think in pictures, so a predictable visual plan will help them understand and handle your shopping trip. Includes step-by-step directions and a sample conversation.

Age

• 2 and up

Helps with

• Self-regulation
• Safety

Use

• Preparing children for shopping trips using visual routines and predictability, which minimizes upset and conflict

Format

• Instructions
• Three single-sided color printouts

Materials

• Printed Shopping Plan
• Printed Shopping Lists
• Lamination sheets
• Scissors
• Tape or Velcro
• Dry erase markers

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