| 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. 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. |
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
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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. |
| 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. 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. |
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| 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. It
is up to you if you want to do steps 2 and 3 before 4, (decorating
the walls of the castle). |
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| 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. 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. |
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| 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. 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. |
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