Log on to https://sciencing.com/make-blueprint-kids-6621832.html to teach your children how to make their own blueprints. The website has examples of blueprints with pictures of tools used to create them.
The website begins by explaining the concept of a blueprint. It states: ‘Blueprints serve as design plans used to construct homes, office buildings and other structures or products. These drawings specifically detail the features of the project by providing precise measurements, the locations of specific product elements, walls, columns, doors and windows, as well as including detailed schematics for plumbing and electrical locations, depending on the type of blueprint.’
Parents and teachers are encouraged to go through each page of the blueprints with kids to see how draftsman, engineers and architects create the drawings that serve as the guide to contractors and manufacturers when they are assembling a product or building a house. Once they have an idea of what blueprints look like, the next step is to show them how to create a basic blueprint. Since blueprints are drawn to scale, you could have them start by figuring the scale of their drawing. Demonstrate how to use a ruler on the graph paper to create a scale rendering of a floor plan. Show them how a drafting house plan template has shapes for toilets, appliances, fixtures and more. Have them mark the door and window dimensions on the layout. Discuss construction projects or buildings that kids are familiar with to help them understand how blueprints are used to design everything from the houses they live in, their schools, public buildings and even airplanes and cars.
