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.
With ✏️ edit on, tap a square and pick one of 24 activities, or type your own emoji and colour under own icon and press use this. Squares are saved in this browser as you go.
Drag a square onto another to move it, or press 📋 copy day and enter a day number from 1 to 7 to copy from and to. Use ‹ and › to plan other weeks; this week jumps back.
Turn ✏️ edit off: taps no longer open the picker and nothing can be dragged, but a tap still ticks a square off with a ⭐. In the current week, today's column is highlighted and a NOW marker shows the current moment.
🖨 print prints the week in landscape on A4 or Letter (the 📄 button switches); ink-saver drops the colour blocks. 🖼 png saves the week as an image.
⛶ wall shows only the grid, fullscreen, for a tablet or TV; ✕ exit or Esc leaves it. The 🌐 button switches between English and Dutch.
A visual weekly planner, or picture schedule, shows a child the week as pictures instead of words. Below: how picture schedules help young children, how to use one as a visual schedule for autism or ADHD, and how each feature of this planner works.
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.
With editing on, tap or click any square and pick an activity from the picker. There are 24 ready-made activities, each with its own colour, plus an own icon field where you can type any emoji and pick a colour for something that is not in the list (custom squares have no text label). Tap a filled square again to change it, clear it with clear square, 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.
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 (7:00–9:00), morning (9:00–12:00), lunch (12:00–13:00), afternoon (13:00–17:00), dinner & evening (17:00–19:00) and bedtime (from 19:00). Six blocks is deliberately coarse: young children think in "after lunch", not in "at 14:15". The clock times are indicative, for the adults reading the board.
Yes. Every filled square can be marked as done, which puts a star on it and fades the square. With editing off, a tap ticks a square off or back on; with editing on, open the square and press ⭐ mark done, or Alt-click it. 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. In the current week, 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. The marker shows between 7:00 and 21:00 and updates every minute.
Yes, with editing on. Drag a square onto another square to move an activity (with a mouse; on touch screens this depends on the browser's drag-and-drop support). Dropping it on a filled square replaces that activity. 📋 copy day asks for a day number from 1 (Monday) to 7 (Sunday) to copy from and one to copy to, and makes the target day an exact copy — handy when Tuesday and Thursday look identical, or when you want to build Sunday from a copy of Saturday.
Yes. Use the ‹ and › arrows next to the week label to move to next week or back to a previous one, and this week to jump back. 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 button 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, with a single tap. The setting is remembered on the device. 🧹 clear and 📋 copy day still work while it is locked, so use ⛶ wall mode, which hides those buttons, on a tablet within reach of small hands. This is what makes it safe to leave running on a tablet within reach of small hands.
Yes, light or dark. The page follows the site-wide light/dark toggle in the top bar (☀ LIGHT / ☾ DARK): dark is the terminal style used across the rest of the site, which is easier on the eyes in a dim room, and light is the brighter version. Your choice is remembered on the device. The PNG download uses the colours of the active theme.
Yes, and it is built for exactly that. 🖨 print gives you a clean landscape grid with the dates on top and no site chrome, in either full colour or, with ink-saver on, a version that keeps the icons, labels and stars but drops the colour blocks. The 📄 A4 button switches between A4 and Letter. A printed week on the fridge and the same week on a tablet work well together.
Yes. The 🖼 png button saves the week you are looking at as a 2200 × 1350 picture named week-YYYY-MM-DD.png 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. ⛶ wall mode hides everything except the grid, scales it to fill the screen and asks the browser for fullscreen; ✕ exit or Esc leaves it. It 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 screens narrower than 720 pixels the grid shows one day at a time, with day tabs (Mon to Sun) above it to switch days, because seven columns of icons are too small to tap accurately on a phone. Wider screens get the full week grid, and wall mode and printing always show the whole week.
Yes. The planner is saved in your browser's own storage on the device itself. There is 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. The page itself loads its font from Google Fonts and counts visits with cookieless Simple Analytics; neither receives your planner.
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 planner, its activity names and day names between English and Dutch. Your choice is remembered on the device. The guide and explanation on this page are in English.
Yes, and you are welcome to. There is no licence to buy and no limit on how many times you print it. There is one planner per browser and no per-child profiles, and tabs in the same browser share that planner, so a childminder with several children prints one week per child (filling it in, printing, then clearing) or uses a separate browser or device per child.