How to Make a Castle - DIY Cardboard Medieval Castle Craft One of my most favorite activities and indeed craft times with my kids was castle making! We made an awesome cardboard castle. Medieval times, or the middle ages, were between 5th to 15th century. A long time ago. These times in history were very

There are many pre-made model castles available at craft stores and online. However, if you're on a budget or you want to make a specific design, you can easily create your own castle from scratch! First, choose your building medium. Your...

Inspired by a location in my story, I used cardboard, paper towel rolls, and foam board (all recycled of course) to construct my 28th cardboard castle I've

I’ve been extremely busy making all sorts of things; too busy, uncomfortably busy, but with things I love to do which makes me very lucky. I had lots of fun this past weekend building a cardb…

Kids LOVE adventure, and medieval times are a captivating part of history. Here are some ideas for medieval crafts for kids that will encourage them to dream and imagine. With our medieval kids crafts you will be able to turn cardboard into tiny figurines! These figurines are perfect company for our medieval cardboard castle. We

Well, I think you can see how thrilled this 2 year old was to hear about the cardboard box challenge we received from TinkerLab this week! We are thrilled to have been invited to take part, along with 20+ other bloggers, to celebrate TinkerLab’s anniversary and I can’t wait to see the range of creative...Read More »

It's a fun activity for children to learn more about castles. Choose the level of difficulty to match the child's needs. Supports KS1's National Curriculum.

Use this printable template to make a cool paper or cardboard castle! Add drawbridge, parapets, and portcullis. Fun to make and fun to play with!

Cardboard castles are a good craft choice any day for the children. They are easy to make, fun, and requires just a few items around the house.

Learn how to create a DIY cardboard castle for kids. With these free printable resources, you and your children can build a cardboard castle.

Some of our favorite creations have come from supplies we found in our recycling bin! Click over to see how to make this castle as part of Waste Material Craft Ideas For Kids!

Cardboard castles are a good craft choice any day for the children. They are easy to make, fun, and requires just a few items around the house.

There are many ways to build a castle with children. Once I already made a small cardboard toy castle with my kids, but this time we wanted something more impressive. For our castle we collected cardboard boxes of different size, and toilet paper tubes. Using those building blocks, paint and some colored paper, we created this castle with floors, round towers, windows and a cone-shaped roof. This project is very easy and straightforward. Reverse the boxes, stack them one onto another, put the toilet paper rolls at the corners, paint. Place towers also at the top and around the gate. I showed how to make a cone in my post about gigantic pencils, the cone-shaped roof can be made the same way. A flag from a toothpick and piece of paper is the final touch. I think you may enjoy the Cardboard castle by Ann Wood. It's more of a piece of art than a kids craft project. Take a look.

This Paper Castle is a fun paper craft project fit for a king or queen. Learn how to create your own Paper Castle with these instructions.

Hello everyone! I have a fun Sizzix tutorial to share with you today. When I made my Tall Grungy Houses a few weeks ago, they got me thinking about making a fairy tale castle using my Sizzix dies. I kept thinking about it, until I just had to try it out. Here's the final result, I am happy with how it turned out, and it is much easier to make than what it looks like. This medieval castle was made using basically only mat board, dies, paste and paint. It is pretty cool to be able to create something large like this from just those products. I made it for my son to have as an ornament in his room. If you use different colours, such as pink, and don't distress it, you'll end up with a very different looking castle, so there are lots of possibilities. It measures 6 1/4 in wide, 9 in long and 10 in high. This is a long tutorial, let's start. First, I thought about which dies might help me build a castle, and die cut some blocks using Eileen Hull's Square Box and 3-D Blocks/Cubes dies, from mat board. You can also use chipboard. You need one large block, and three smaller (the mid-sized block on the 3-D Blocks/Cubes). I wanted round towers and used Susan's Garden Rounded Birdhouse for the piece to the right, and Brenda Walton's Faceted Cone for the roof piece. These dies don't work so well with mat board, which is too thick, instead I used thin chipboard. You need four of each. On top of the large block I wanted a smaller building and decided to use Eileen Hull's birdhouse, also die cut from mat board. In one of the large block pieces, I cut a door opening using the smallest Tim Holtz Sized Arches die. The windows were die cut with the Windows set. Use masking tape to temporary hold the dies in place to make sure that they don't shift when you die cut. At first, I was planning for the square tower to be connected to the entrance building, but later I changed my mind, which is why my tall square tower doesn't have a door. If you want to, die cut a door. Since this is an old castle, there is no glass in the windows, but if you do another type of castle, you can use acetate or mica. For the towers I used a Keyhole Movers & Shapers die. Adhere the tower together with strong tape. You need to cut off two wedges from the roof in order for it not to be too wide. Check to make sure it is just wide enough before you assemble the roof. I thought I was pretty clever when I figured out how to do the part on top of the towers (I am not sure what those notches are called), and the wall. I was not keen on having to cut all those notches with a craft knife and suddenly came to think of Tim Holtz Torn Notebook On the Edge Die. I was happy to see how well it worked. Cut a piece of mat board and die cut it until you have cut the whole piece, lining it up on the die. You can see into this castle through all the windows, so I painted the inside with Pumice Stone. To give it some texture, I stamped with a crackle stamp and Watering Can ink. When I made my Tall Grungy Houses, I wished that I had added some people inside them. I didn't have time to make clay people for the castle, instead these wood veneer Potty People had to do. I used nine of them, in two sizes, and painted them with Distress Paint. I put a blob of hot glue where I wanted the figurines. Use strong adhesive to assemble the blocks. These are the insides of the blocks in the tall tower. I even added some ornaments for the walls. A cameo painting inside one of the rooms. Measure and score the 'roof piece' so that you can easily attach it around the top floor. Adhere with strong tape. Repeat on the large block. Assemble all the different buildings, but don't put the roofs on the round towers or on the bird house yet. Smear a thin layer of Wendy Vecchi's White Embossing Paste on the houses, also covering the joints. Continue until you have covered all the houses, the round towers, and the bird house roof. If you used brown chipboard, as I did on the towers, you might want to give them a coating of gesso first. Leave to dry. On the conical roofs, I made some impressions while the paste was still wet, creating a cool roof texture. I wanted more texture on the buildings and was thinking about how to do that. I love this Cobblestones die by Tim Holtz and though it would work great as a stencil. It was die cut from Eclipse tape and used as a stencil, to smear paste here and there through the stone shapes. You can also try using printer paper, but the Eclipse Tape works well. I was happy with the texture and repeated on all the buildings, but not on the roofs. When dry, paint with watered-down Pumice Stone. Adding a little bit of water to the paint (make a pool on a paint palette) speeds up painting. Use a paint brush, and paint the stones with Weathered Wood. It doesn't need to be perfect. At this stage, my son commented that he thought the caste was 'too white, castles aren't supposed to be white'. I listened to the advice of the four-year old castle expert and added more Pumice Stone and distressed the buildings by dry brushing Black Soot on them. The black paint makes the texture of the paste more visible. The roof pieces were painted with slightly watered-down Black Soot Paint, and when dry, dry brushed with more black paint. At this stage, I had no idea what I was going to place the castle on and happened to think of the packaging for Brenda Walton's dies, very sturdy boxes. I have kept the packaging, knowing it would come in handy, and used one of the boxes from an L-sized die. I coated it with a few coats of gesso to cover up the pink. The wall was cut from mat board and die cut with the Torn Notebook die. I didn't make it very high because I wanted the castle to be clearly visible. Smear paste all over the base and place the buildings into the wet paste, which then acts as an adhesive. As you can see, the roofs are still not attached. When the paste is dry, paint the ground and the wall in the same way as the buildings. I used Black Soot to make a little path into the castle. I made flags by folding Tim Holtz tissue tape around a pearl needle and adhered them to the roofs with hot glue. After this, the roofs were attached to the buildings, also using hot glue. Always be very careful when you use hot glue since it is very hot. Add some people to the outside areas of the castle too. This one has the watch. With some modifications, you can make a lot of different kinds of castles, use different colours, add more embellishments, cover the shapes with patterned paper instead of paste, there are lots of options. This could also easily be turned into other types of buildings. It is a welcoming castle and the couple owning it are standing here to welcome guests. You could leave the bird house out, but I thought it worked as a little building for the guard to take shelter in if the weather is bad. The stone texture is really nice. I love using my dies in ways they were not originally intended for. This is what the castle looks like from the other side. There are people on all the three floors in the tall tower and if you look closely you can see the ornaments on the walls too. Here you can see the people better. This was a tricky project to photograph with all the dimension. From the top it looks like this. There is paste on the flat roofs too. When you touch the castle, it is hard to guess that it is made of mat board and chipboard. You don't have to use exactly the same dies as I did, have a look at the shapes your dies can cut and see what you can build. It is lots of fun! From the side it looks like this. There are some open areas for people to walk around in. Here's a woman walking, maybe on her way to the market. From the top the finished castle looks like this. The happy recipient of the castle. This also gives you an idea of how large it is. For now, this is mainly going to be an ornament. If you make it to a small child, be careful with the needle flags, maybe use something else or leave them out all together. Thank you so much for looking at this long post!! I hope it inspired you to look at your dies differently and see how many different uses they can have. Happy crafting! Anna-Karin Supplies: Dies: Sizzix: 3-D Blocks/Cubes, Square Box, Keyholes, 3-D Birdhouse, Cobblestones, Sized Arches, Faceted Cone, Rounded 3-D Birdhouse, Windows Set, Torn Notebook Surfaces: Sizzix: Little Sizzles Mat Board 6 x 13; chipboard Stamps: Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous: Ultimate Grunge Ink: Archival Ink: Watering Can Paint: Distress Paint: Pumice Stone, Black Soot, Victorian Velvet, Chipped Sapphire, Weathered Wood Medium: Wendy Vecchi White Embossing Paste Embellishments: Tim Holtz Idea-ology: Merriment Tissue Tape; Studio Calico Wood Veneer: Potty People, Birds Adhesive: Ranger Wonder Tape; Judikins Eclipse Tape

My third graders are doing simple machines in science class, which matches up perfectly with the next unit I wanted to do with them! I've been wanting to build castles with a grade, so I figured this would be the perfect class to do it with...we could incorporate simple machines in our draw bridge! I've seen numerous examples of these floating around Pinterest, but most of them use just cardboard tubes of different sizes to create a princess-like castle. I did a little research on castles (because let's be honest...I know very little about castles), and I used various sources from pppst.com to create a handout (I'll have to attach that tomorrow...I left my hard drive at school). On the first day of the project, students partnered up and read about the parts of a castle and then tried to match the name of each part to its picture on the back of the handout. It has taken us approximately two days to put these castles together so far. From here, we will gesso the cardboard (the shiny, printed side of the cereal boxes, not the brown side) and add the texture to the walls. Students will be able to paint medieval scenes on the inside of their walls and they will have to brainstorm how to make their drawbridge work. Finally, we'll make the cones to put on the tops of their towers. This is my castle that I made. I used regular cardboard and paper towel tubes. I found that it was VERY difficult to cut the cardboard using my own scissors and I knew the students wouldn't be able to cut it with their scissors, so I had them all bring in cereal boxes. Each student used one large cereal box to make their castle walls. We cut out the front and back of each box, and then cut those in half. Students cut out the little "teeth" on their walls, and then folded the sides to create a little flap to make it easier to hot glue them to the cardboard. Once glued, they had to trim down their towers if they were too tall to make them a little more proportionate. This is the first time I've let 3rd graders use hot glue guns and it was VERY successful! Some of them were leery of using the glue guns, so I helped them, but everyone else did quite well! We had no burned fingers! Once a student finished constructing his or her castle, they helped others catch up...it was great watching their teamwork today! My cart of castles! Class B still needs one more period to finish constructing all of their castles. I just BARELY had enough paper towel tubes to do this project...I've been stock piling them for a while and I have one grandparent who has faithfully sent me two garbage bags full of them since the beginning of the year. Now, I just need a project to deplete the toilet paper tubes that I have left...

Chances are, you have packing tubes and paper towel rolls in a recycling bin. We sure did. Until we decided to build a cardboard castle out of recyclables.

Here the photographs of the real Castle of Caerphilly in Cardiff (Wales, UK), Paolo realized a model with cardboard glued on wood and polystyrene base, coloured with acrylic colours.

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