How to Make Cardboard Castle

Create your own fantasy castle from cardboard.

Children enjoy creating cardboard castles. They can imagine riding as a knight and saving the kingdom or pretending to be royalty in the Middle Ages. Enhance your child's imagination and creativity with an easy-to-build recycled cardboard box and tube castle.

Things You'll Need

• Cardboard pieces (boxes, tubes, etc)
• Paint
• Paintbrushes
• Construction paper
• Tape
• Scissors
• Utility knife
• Glue
• Poster board
• Markers

Instructions

1. Paint a rectangular cardboard box gray or wrap the box with gray construction paper. A cereal or cracker box works well. Use the box as the main body of your castle.

2. Cut a rectangular piece out of the middle of the box leaving the bottom of the rectangle connected to the box. This will serve as the draw bridge. Glue the box to a piece of poster board in the desired location for the castle.

3. Paint a cardboard tube gray or cover with gray construction paper. Consider empty toilet tissue or paper towel rolls. Shape a piece of construction paper into a cone shape to fit on top of the tube. Glue the the cone edges to hold its shape and then glue it to the top of the cone with the point upward. Use the tube with cone on top as the castle's tower.

4. Glue the tower to the castle body on the poster board.

5. Wrap or paint smaller square and rectangle boxes gray to add to the other side of the castle as additional rooms. Create another tower for this section of the castle as well if you wish.

6. Decorate the castle using markers or embellishments, if desired. For example, use a black marker to draw the outline of stones fitted next to each other to give the illusion the castle is built of slate.

Tips & Warnings

• Glue the pieces to blue poster board to give the illusion of a mote under the draw bridge and around the castle.

References

• DLTK Kids: Castle Craft
• Helpful.com: How to Make a Castle Out of Cardboard Boxes