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Making castles with the kids

Filed under Uncategorized by Beck at 10:47 am on Jul 11 2008

My children like to make things, they can sit there for hours perfecting something they are making. Their attention span when they are creating seems much longer than when they are playing with their toys.

Having just moved in the last couple of months I had some boxes sitting around and we decided to make castles for the boys knights and horses. As you can see from the photos the boys castles vary in skill level you can tell which one the three year old made compared to the five year old - but they were both happy with the finished product.

These were inspired by the book Recycled Crafts Box Making castles with the kids by Laura C. Martin. We didn’t follow the instructions but more looked at the picture and each boy interpreted what they saw to their ability. This is a great book and I may provide a review for it in a later post once my boys and I have tried some more of the ideas in it.

This is the castle that Cooper built.Castle built by nearly 3 year old.

One Response to “Making castles with the kids”

  1. 1 Veredon 22 Jul 2008 at 6:02 pm

    What a fun project!

    Thanks for the idea.

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