Cardboard Castle
Here’s a fun family project just in time for Purim while you recycle items that would otherwise in up in the landfill.
Supplies
Cardboard tubes of all kinds, also mailing tubes which tend to be much wider!
Round cans or just about anything thick and round, how about a piece of pvc pipe?
Shoe box
Wrapping paper
Colored paper
Sheer patterned disposable table runner fabric, it\'s stiff and easy to work with
Glittered craft foam
Hot glue and/or high tack craft glue like Alene\'s
Mod podge
Wooden skewers
Instructions
Don\'t be afraid to re-invent this project a bit! Your recycled materials may be different from those pictured.
Cover the bottom of your shoe box with some fun patterned wrapping paper. If you\'ll be making a castle gift box, so cover the bottom of the shoe box and the lid separately, and continue to build your castle on the lid.
Cover the bottom of the shoebox (namely the base for your castle) with a solid piece of paper, using mod podge or diluted white glue, as the patterned wrapping paper might be a bit too distracting.
Cover toilet paper tubes, some cut down to half their size and some stacked two together (or more) with the sheer sparkled (gold in my case) table runner material.
Cover your largest tube, (mine is actually a box that held a bottle of scotch, so glad to finally use it!) with a bright piece of solid colored paper and make some window or castle like details of some kinds by applying other colors of cut outs with mod podge.
Make some window and door details for the shoe box portion of your castle and affix with mod podge.
Now it\'s time to make roofs and details using the sparkled craft foam! Roofs are basically circles with a slit in them, and then you overlap the pieces on either side of the slit to form a little cone shape, and adhere with hot glue. Attach the roofs with hot glue or high tack glue. Attach look out tower details (forgot what those are called) to the tallest tubes, as well as some peep holes and tiny windows, using hot glue or high tack glue.
Glue everything together, both to the base and to each other where possible, make a few flags and you\'re done!
Sit back and enjoy gazing at your wonderful castle and give yourself a pat on the back.
This craft is reprinted courtesy of CreativeJewishMom.com.
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