Bedtime Routine Picture Chart for Early Years (5 Steps with Tick Boxes)

A simple, friendly picture chart for the bedtime routine. Five steps, each with a picture and a tick box: bath time, pyjamas on, brush teeth, story time and night-night. Children can tick each step, or add a sticker, as they go, with Nimbo the little cloud and Teddy for company. For younger children, an adult can point to the picture and say the step together.

How to use:

• Print on A4 (colour or black and white). Laminate it and use a dry-wipe pen so it can be used again.
• Talk through the steps together before bed, then tick each one. Ticking is just for fun; there is no need to reward or rush.
• Every family’s routine is a little different. Skip, swap or reorder steps to fit yours: cross out or cover a step that does not fit, or swap “Bath time” for a wash on some nights.
• In the setting, cut the five steps apart and ask children to put them in order, or use them in the home corner to put a teddy to bed. Good for talk about home routines and words like first, next and last.
• Page size: A4. On US Letter, print with Fit to page.

Links to EYFS: Personal, Social and Emotional Development (Managing Self, managing their own basic hygiene and personal needs) and Communication and Language (talking about routines and sequences).

Free to download, print and share (CC BY-ND: please credit Oddlebrook Studios and don’t share edited versions). It goes with the song “Step by Step to Bed” by Nimbo Songs.

Made by Oddlebrook Studios. The pictures and layout were made with AI-assisted tools (the art is drawn with code), then checked, edited and approved by a person.