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title: "Life Skills Activities for Kids: Routines & Independence | Nookly"
url: https://nookly.com/life-skills-and-milestones
description: "Personalized routines, practice activities and stories for everyday milestones: mornings, helping at home, money, homework, potty and motor skills."
lang: en
---

Life skills and everyday milestones

# Little steps. A little more “ I c a n. ”

Shoes on. Plates cleared. Pocket money counted. Nookly helps you make videos, songs, podcasts and stories for the everyday things your child is working on, at their own pace.

Create a routine: https://my.nookly.com/create/

Learning bundles

## Milestone bundles Bundles for every big step

Potty training, bedtime, homework, a new sibling, the first day of school and more. Bundles that help with whatever your child is working on now. Explore more ready-made ideas in Nookly’s public children’s learning resource library, the Neighborhood (https://my.nookly.com/marketplace/browse/).

**Want one made just for your child?** Subscribe below to personalize this bundle, or create your own around your child’s name, interests and goals.

Open Counting and Early Money Skills: Pretend Café (https://my.nookly.com/marketplace/bundles/6ac38e17112b080ffca3cf05)

Story

Our First Three Customers

Open a pretend cafe and serve the first three customers while counting coins along the way.

Ages 5-6

### Counting and Early Money Skills: Pretend Café: https://my.nookly.com/marketplace/bundles/6ac38e17112b080ffca3cf05

Counting and first money sense through dramatic play. Children open a pretend café, take orders, and count out payment — a story, a measuring song, and a step-by-step visual schedule for running the till.

$7.99

Purchase bundle: https://my.nookly.com/marketplace/bundles/6ac38e17112b080ffca3cf05
Subscribe & personalize: https://my.nookly.com/membership/

How Nookly works

## Made in five steps From child to finished thing, in five steps.

Step one

### First, Nookly gets to know the child.

Before anything is made, you tell Nookly who this child actually is — how they look, who lives in their house, the friends and pets they talk about, and what they are obsessed with this month. Everything Nookly creates later is built from this one profile.

Set up once. Reused in everything after.

- Image: Home illustration (https://nookly.com/__l5e/assets-v1/a774c539-5761-4a78-bcbd-3a952a1a8487/parents.png)
  Home
  Mom, Dad and baby brother
- Image: Best friend illustration (https://nookly.com/__l5e/assets-v1/ff10e1f7-58ee-40ac-b7d8-09380c4f651a/best-friend.webp)
  Best friend
  Chloe from school

Zara, age 5

Image: Zara, a five-year-old in a yellow t-shirt and blue jeans (https://nookly.com/__l5e/assets-v1/c643542c-94ce-4359-a039-8e583a8e3a7d/zara-cutout.webp)

- Image: Interests illustration (https://nookly.com/__l5e/assets-v1/cdbfbdfc-31d7-4e60-a436-8e9d9a0a88be/dinosaur.png)
  Interests
  Dinosaurs, puddles and the colour red
- Image: Pets illustration (https://nookly.com/__l5e/assets-v1/4dc672e4-23b9-43e1-afcc-a919cdcb6701/turtle.webp)
  Pets
  Biscuit, a very slow tortoise

Step 1 of 5

The whole child

## Everyday is big The everyday things are big things

Image: A little girl folding laundry with her mom in a sunny living room (https://nookly.com/__l5e/assets-v1/01ea8eae-0cca-44af-93cf-faef9b1a3baa/life-laundry.webp)

Fastening a shoe can be the proudest moment of the week.

Life skills grow through repetition, patience and an adult who lets them try. Nookly helps you make the pictures, practice and stories that make each step clearer.

Every child gets there on their own timeline. Nothing here is a punishment or reward system, and nothing replaces advice from people who know your child.

Clear steps

Picture routines that break big jobs into small ones.

Their interests

Dinosaurs, unicorns or trains make practice feel theirs.

Real practice

Printables and games for doing, not just watching.

Your pace

You decide what to work on and when to stop.

### What's in the membership?

Personalized stories and learning experiences, guided by their family. Work toward a learning goal with a personalized plan, or create something for the moment they’re in.

- #### Personalized creations
  Stories, videos, songs, podcasts and activities made around the child in front of them.
- #### Learning plans
  A personalized learning plan, called a Blueprint, supports a goal the family chooses and helps the kid achieve it.
- #### Resources to explore
  Explore ready-to-use stories and activities, with personalization where available.

Subscribe now (https://my.nookly.com/membership)

## Ideas to try together Ideas for learning together

- Image: A girl in a helmet learning to ride a bike while her dad steadies the seat and grandpa watches (https://nookly.com/__l5e/assets-v1/540f0fde-da1c-4c88-8e43-948737acd60c/life-bike.webp)
  Guide
  ### The Small Victories Club: Life Skills for Real Family Mornings
  Picture routines, helping jobs and patient practice for everyday milestones.
  Read the article (https://nookly.com/learning/life-skills-kids-everyday-milestones)
- Image: A laughing boy in a chef hat cutting out cookies with his grandma in a sunny kitchen (https://nookly.com/__l5e/assets-v1/aa3b3ce3-e34c-4027-a015-69ebef5724af/life-baking.webp)
  Comparison
  ### Nookly vs Daniel Tiger vs a Routine Chart: What Helps With the Next Little Step?
  A show, a homemade chart and personalized routines, compared by fit.
  Read the article (https://nookly.com/learning/nookly-vs-daniel-tiger-routine-charts)

Pick the next little step

Tell Nookly what your child is working on right now.

Create a routine (https://my.nookly.com/create/)

## Questions? We l o v e those!

### Can Nookly potty train my child by a certain date?

### Is this a reward chart system?

### Can this help with motor delays?

### What money skills suit young kids?

### How do I stop homework battles?

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