Easy crafts with kids: How to make a castle

For Victoria’s princess birthday, we made a whole collection of princesses from paper. But princesses live in castles, so I decided (in my enthusiasm for the event) to also make a series of castles from cardboard and paper.  As I had to do this craft activity with 10 small kids, I had to keep it simple so I limited myself to a castle with four walls from cardboard and a tower in the corner.

I wanted the kids to take their creation home so I choose to do 10 simple castles. My drawing skills are not that great so I used the internet and the tools in the house for support (a printer, some scissors, glue and cardboard):

• I borrowed some images  from here, printed them 4 by 4 on A3 papers and the kids did the cutting.
• I cut rectangles with the same dimension as the above printed walls, out of  some pizza boxes.
• For the towers I used toilet paper rolls and red colored paper for the roof.
• The kids glued the parts together, cutting the gate out and assembling the four walls.

To assemble the walls, you need to make 2 cuts in each piece: for 2 of them you cut halfway from the bottom, and for the other two you cut halfway from the top.

I also made two cuts in the towers to be able to slide them in the corner of the castle wall which also gave stability to the whole construction.

This activity takes a bit of preparation in the sense that you need to print the images, but for the rest it’s really simple to do.

We made this activity with 10 kids ranging from 5 to 3,5 year old and it all went super smooth, but I had to be constantly involved in this craft activity with kids.

If you have just 1 or 2 kids, you can make a castle with more different corners, windows, towers, … and you can have some time off while the kids are busy with the cutting and the gluing.

So if you make a princess, prince or a knight … I suggest you make a castle as well and your kid will have great fun playing with both.

If you’re looking for a bigger castle to make, you can see our previous posts where we turned cardboard boxes into castles!

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