How to Make Cardboard Castles for Kids – Crafts With Cardboard

We did some crafts with cardboard lately, so here you can see how to make cardboard castles for kids, which they’ll love to make and play with.

Some time ago we did some crafts with cardboard and had lots of fun with a cardboard box which we turned into a castle. Well …Victoria was so enthusiastic that she actually told it to Laura – a good friend of hers –  and when Laura came to visit, we absolutely HAD TO show her how to make cardboard castles.

The first time was big fun already, but this time was even better. And that’s because we did it a little different …

The procedure and so stayed very much the same as for the first cardboard castle we did, but this time I left it much more up to the kids to do their own thing for their crafts with cardboard play time.

Last time I did most of the drawing to make sure the castle would look like a castle, but this time I let the two girls exercise drawing the straight and curbed lines of the windows, walls and gate.

I could still do some corrections on the cardboard castle design during the cutting part, but I didn’t even have to correct much. The girls also did the whole painting part by themselves, which game me some time to relax and have my afternoon coffee :-). Of course the making of the cardboard castle ended up taking more time and being way messier -and waaaay too pink for my standards – but they loved it and the result is great!

I got reminded that I should not intervene too much in the children’s play and I should let them discover and do things their own way.  After all the most important is to have fun and experiment.

So you want my opinion on how to make cardboard castles? If your kids are younger get involve and make the cardboard castles with them, but if they are older, just give them the tools they need and let them create!

Enjoy your children  crafts with cardboard and watch them have fun with this self made cardboard toy.