Playbook Projects – Turning Curiosity into Long-Arc Learning

Playbook Projects are the meaning-making hub of the Jungle Combine and Rising Stars. They take the drills, sounds, and numbers your child is practicing and anchor them in real investigations, builds, and stories.  

•  Cultivate critical thinking, collaboration, and creativity.
•  Build executive function: planning, revising, sticking with something until it’s finished.
•  Provide artifacts—maps, drawings, models, photos—that become part of your child’s Living Record.

•  Choose a starter project (for example: “Build a Jungle City,” “Design a Training Camp”).
•  Run short daily sessions where your child plans, builds, documents, and reflects.
•  Capture their work in floorbooks, binders, or digital portfolios.

When children see their ideas valued and revisited, they learn to value their own voice. When they see their words and drawings returned to them months later, they understand that their thinking has power.

This is not only about “school readiness.”

It is about life readiness—growing children who know how to observe, imagine, question, and create.

Playbook Projects invite children into a rhythm of curiosity and mastery that stays with them long after the project ends. They learn that their thoughts can shape the world. And parents? They receive something priceless: a visible archive of their child’s mind at work.