Supplies
Needed
*
At Least 2 Cereal Boxes
* Poster Board or Additional Cereal Box(es)
* 4 Cylinder Food Item Containers
* Construction Paper (colors of your choice) or Plain Paper
With Crayons
* Tape or Glue
* Scissors
* Index Cards (optional)
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| This
craft has lots of ways that you can customize it, depending
on the supplies that you can get or have will affect what
you decide to do. |
| Step
1: The sizes of all of the items that you are using
will affect the size of your platform. Here is a simple math
equation to help you figure out what you need for your platform.
It is important to get these things ready before you and your
toddler are sitting down ready to dive into a craft project,
so that your toddler doesn't become anxious waiting while
mommy or daddy are calculating just how much area the castle
will need.. |
Diameter
of Cylinder + Length of Box for Front + Diameter of Cylinder
= A
Diameter of Cylinder + Length of Box for Side Wall + Diameter
of Cylinder = B |
| Multiply
A and B. This will be the area that you'll need to put
your castle on. If you want area around the castle be
sure to make the platform larger. |
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| Once
you have the platform, which can be made out of poster board,
cereal boxes, etc, ready and all of your supplies together you
can begin the project with your toddler. |
| Step
2: Help your toddler decorate your food item cylinder
containers, most likely empty oatmeal containers. You can use
construction paper or plain paper with crayons to add a background
to the cylinders, your castle's towers, as well as windows.
You can even use the brick or stone
pattern print out for your toddler to color in. |
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| This
is a perfect example for being able to customize the castle,
you and your toddler can decide how many windows to put and
where to put them on the castle's tower. |
| Step
3: Using index cards or construction paper cut out
turret shapes to go around the top of the towers, this will
take four index cards for a standard oatmeal cylinder container
so you'll need a few of them. Secure the turrets to the towers
using tape or glue, something that your toddler will not likely
be able to help with. |
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| It
is up to you if you want to do steps 2 and 3 before 4, (decorating
the walls of the castle). |
| Step
4: If you only have two cereal boxes to use on your
castle cut out the front and back of each one to create your
four castle walls, if you are able to use four cereal boxes,
keep them whole as they will each represent a sturdy wall. Decorate
as you like, covering them with a print out, construction paper,
etc. |
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| For
the box that you use for the front of the castle cut a castle
door shape (leave some of it connected so it can open and close).
Like in step 3 you can put turret shapes on the side of the
walls if your walls are entire boxes, giving your castle a ledge. |
| Step
5: If you have a platform that is no bigger and your
castle decorate it as the floor of the castle. If you have extra
room for a yard, mote, etc add that as well. Then glue or tape
your towers and walls to one another creating your castle frame
and finally glue or tape your castle frame to the platform.
Once everything is secure your little one can play with this
fun craft. |
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| Your
child can use their own play people to play in the castle where
they can stand on the ledges, on the towers and in the courtyard
where they can enter in and out of the castle door. |
