Turn the week into pictures. Click a square, pick from 24 activity icons — school, daycare, swimming, TV time, grandma — and your child sees the whole week at a glance. Tick squares off with a star, spot what is happening now, print it for the fridge or show it fullscreen on a tablet. Free, works offline, and nothing ever leaves your device.
How picture schedules work, why they calm down mornings, how to use one as a visual schedule for autism or ADHD, and every feature of this planner — ticking off with stars, printing for the fridge, wall display and privacy. Can't find your answer? Get in touch.
A visual weekly planner — also called a picture schedule, routine chart or visual timetable — shows the week as pictures instead of words, so a child who cannot read yet can still see what is happening today and what comes next. This one lays the week out as a grid: seven days across, six moments of the day down, and every square holds a big icon such as school, daycare, outside play or bath time.
Tap or click any empty square and pick an activity from the picker. There are 24 ready-made activities, each with its own colour, plus a field where you can type any emoji you like for something that is not in the list. Tap a filled square again to change it, clear it, or mark it as done.
No. There is nothing to install, no sign-up, no email address and no subscription. The planner is a single web page that runs entirely in your browser, on a phone, tablet, laptop or a TV browser.
Yes, completely free, with no ads, no watermark and no paid tier. It is one of a large collection of free browser tools at jasperbernaers.com.
It is designed for roughly 2 to 8 year olds — the years when a child understands pictures long before words. Toddlers mostly enjoy pointing at what is coming; four to six year olds start using it to predict their day themselves; older children often like ticking squares off. There is no wrong age: plenty of adults use picture schedules too.
Small children have little sense of clock time, so a day can feel unpredictable. Seeing the sequence laid out reduces that uncertainty: it makes transitions easier ("after lunch comes nap time — look, it is on the board"), cuts down on repeated "what are we doing now?" questions, and hands the child a bit of ownership over their own day. Predictable routines are one of the simplest things that make family mornings calmer.
Yes — that is one of the main reasons it exists. Visual supports are a well-established way to make the day predictable for autistic children and for children with ADHD or other needs around structure and transitions. This planner keeps the icons large and consistent, uses one colour per activity, and can be locked so the board cannot be changed by accident. It is a practical everyday tool, not a clinical product, and it is not a substitute for advice from your paediatrician, speech therapist or support team.
A first-then board shows only two steps ("first shoes, then park") and a PECS system is a full communication method with physical exchange cards. This planner sits in between: it shows a whole week at a glance, which suits children who already cope with more than two steps. Many families use both — a first-then board for the tricky moment, the week planner on the wall for the bigger picture.
That is exactly who it is built for. Every square is an icon first; the text label underneath is there for the adults. Start by pointing at today's column together each morning and naming the pictures out loud. Most children begin recognising their own week within a few days.
Keep it small at first. Fill in only the fixed anchors of the week — school days, swimming, the day grandma visits — and leave the rest empty so the board does not feel like a set of orders. Let your child choose the icon for one or two squares themselves. Look at it at the same moment every day, usually breakfast, so checking the board becomes part of the routine rather than an extra instruction.
Change it together, out loud. Unexpected changes are much easier for a child to accept when they can see the board being updated — swap the icon, say what happened, and point at what comes next. A planner that is occasionally wrong is still far better than no planner at all.
Wake up & breakfast, morning, lunch, afternoon, dinner & evening, and bedtime. Six blocks is deliberately coarse: young children think in "after lunch", not in "at 14:15". Each row shows an indicative clock time for the adults reading it.
Yes. Every filled square can be marked as done, which puts a star on it and softens the colour. For a lot of children this is the best part of the whole board — a visible trail of the day being completed. Ticking off works even when the planner is locked, so the day cannot be rearranged by accident while your child is using it.
Yes. Today's column is highlighted and the square for the current moment of the day gets a now marker, so a child can find their place on the board without being able to read a clock.
Yes. Drag a square onto another square to move an activity, and use copy day to duplicate a whole day onto another one — handy when Tuesday and Thursday look identical, or when you want to build the weekend from a copy of Saturday.
Yes. Use the arrows next to the week label to move to next week or back to a previous one. Each week is stored separately, so filling in the school holidays in advance does not disturb this week's board.
Yes — that is what the edit switch does. Turn editing off and the board becomes read-only: taps no longer open the picker and nothing can be dragged. Ticking squares off still works. This is what makes it safe to leave running on a tablet within reach of small hands.
There are two looks. Bright is a soft, colourful, high-contrast theme made for children and for wall displays. Terminal is the dark style used across the rest of the site, which is easier on the eyes in a dim room. There is also a light/dark toggle. Your choice is remembered on the device.
Yes, and it is built for exactly that. Printing gives you a clean full-page grid with no site chrome, in either full colour or an ink-saving version that keeps the icons but drops the colour blocks. You can choose A4 or Letter. A printed week on the fridge and the same week on a tablet work well together.
Yes. Download PNG saves the current week as a picture you can send in a message to a partner, grandparent or childminder, or set as a tablet wallpaper. Nothing is uploaded to make it — the image is drawn in your browser.
Yes. Fullscreen mode strips away everything except the grid and scales it to the screen, which suits a spare tablet in the hallway, a monitor in the kitchen or a TV. Combine it with the lock so the board cannot be changed in passing.
Yes. On a narrow screen the week switches to a day-by-day view you can swipe through, because seven columns of icons are too small to tap accurately on a phone. On a tablet and larger you get the full week grid.
Completely. Everything is saved in your browser's own storage on the device itself. There is no server, no account and no upload, so your family's routine — which days your child is at daycare, when nobody is home — never leaves the device it was typed on.
In your browser's local storage, tied to that browser on that device. It survives closing the tab and restarting the machine. It is lost if you clear your browsing data, use private browsing, or switch to another browser or device — so print the week or download the PNG if it matters.
No, and that is a deliberate trade-off: syncing would mean uploading your child's routine to a server. If you want the same week in two places, download the PNG or print it. The week you see on the kitchen tablet is the one stored on that tablet.
Once the page has loaded it keeps working without a connection, because everything runs in the browser. You need to be online for the first load and for the web fonts.
Any current browser — Chrome, Edge, Safari, Firefox — on Windows, macOS, Linux, iPad, Android tablets and phones.
Yes. Use the language button in the top bar to switch the whole planner, including this FAQ, between English and Dutch. Your choice is remembered on the device.
Yes, and you are welcome to. It is free, there is no licence to buy and no limit on how many times you print it. It has no per-child accounts, so a childminder juggling several children usually prints one week per child or keeps a separate device tab open.
Ideas and problems are very welcome — the planner has grown mostly out of suggestions from parents. Get in touch via the about page.