The Blueprint
"Drawing our plan helps us understand it."
Curious Cat drawing a diagram on blue paper with white lines.
About this page
Curious Cat trades wondering for drafting on this page, sketching white lines across blue paper like a tiny engineer. The message for kids is that drawing an idea is a way of thinking about it. Putting a plan on paper forces you to notice missing pieces, and a diagram you can point to is a plan you can improve. Blueprints also make it safe to be wrong early, when changes only cost an eraser, which is one more reason wrong answers are the best part of science. Coloring this page is itself a kind of drafting, slow, careful, and thoughtful.
Talk about it while you color
- What do you think Curious Cat is drawing a plan for?
- If you drew a blueprint of your dream fort, what would you put in it?
- Why might drawing a plan first be easier than just starting to build?