This Computing video supports teachers in helping children use Scratch to draw 2D shapes with the Pen tool. It explains how to add the Pen extension in Scratch 3 by selecting the blue plus icon and choosing ‘Pen’. The video walks teachers through how to use the ‘Pen down’ and ‘Pen up’ blocks to control when drawing starts and stops, and highlights the importance of treating them as a pair. It introduces blocks for changing pen colour, width and brightness, and demonstrates how to create a reset button using the ‘Erase all’ block. Teachers are also guided on avoiding common mistakes, such as misusing the ‘Stamp’ block, which is not needed in this lesson.

This video is part of Kapow Primary’s Computing scheme of work – videos. It supports teachers to build their confidence with Scratch’s drawing tools and prepares them to guide pupils in using loops, colours and coordinates creatively and accurately. It also ensures teachers can support debugging and resetting code efficiently, setting the foundation for shape-based programming tasks. In the next lesson, pupils will apply their learning to solve problems using computational thinking.