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Toddler printables
Charts for the age of small negotiations: potty training, first routines, sticker rewards and the early attempts at getting dressed alone.
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12 sheetsPotty training charts
Twelve free potty training sticker charts to print on A4, dinosaurs, unicorns, diggers, mermaids, sea life, woodland animals and more, with a full week of squares and the advice that goes with them.
6 sheetsRoutine charts
Six free morning and bedtime routine charts to print on A4, in a colourful design and in pink and blue, with picture steps a child can follow before they can read and a full week of boxes to tick.
18 sheetsColouring pages
Eighteen free printable colouring pages, cats, dogs, sea creatures, diggers, tractors, cars, unicorns, shapes, numbers and fruit, all black and white line art, ready for A4.
3 sheetsShape tracing and pre-writing sheets
Three free printable packs for little hands: shape tracing, pre-writing line patterns and a cut out matching set. Twelve pages in total, all A4 landscape.
What actually works at this age
A toddler can’t read, can’t wait until Friday for anything, and has extremely firm views about dinosaurs. That rules out small print, delayed rewards, and any chart you picked without consulting them.
What does work: pictures instead of words, a reward that lands the same day, and a chart short enough to finish. Ten squares that get filled beats thirty squares abandoned somewhere around square nine, with the chart slowly becoming part of the wallpaper.
Let them choose it
Thirty seconds of holding up two designs turns your idea into their idea, and that’s most of the battle won before you have started. Show two or three, not twelve. They’re two. Choosing is hard work.
Take it down when it’s done
Charts are scaffolding. Once the habit is there, quietly retire it, because leaving it up turns something your child can now do into something they expect to be paid for. Nobody wants to be negotiating a fee for putting shoes on in eighteen months.
Expect it to go backwards
It will go backwards, and knowing that in advance takes most of the sting out of it. New baby, house move, starting nursery, a bad cold, a fortnight of teeth. Any of those will knock over a habit a toddler only half owns, and none of it means you picked the wrong approach.
The right response is almost always to make less of it rather than more. Say less, ask less, carry on quietly.
One thing at a time
A chart with six targets on it looks efficient and fails, because a two year old can’t hold six things in mind and a half filled sheet reads as failure however you frame it.
Pick the one thing that’s genuinely causing friction this month. When it’s automatic, swap it or stop.
The reward arrives now or not at all
A toddler can’t connect a treat on Friday to a thing they did on Tuesday. If it doesn’t land within seconds, it isn’t a reward, it’s a promise, and promises don’t change behaviour at this age. The rest of the timing, and what to do when a chart stops working, sits in reward charts that actually work.