Build a Castle

Our Summer project for today was to build a castle.  My Big H has been totally into castles lately.  Asking me questions, like, "What are stronger - round turrets or square turrets?" " How far can a catapult throw a rock?"  Of course, I have no idea what the answers to these questions are, so we went to the library and got a couple of books. One of them had really elaborate designs of cardboard castles.  My building skills were not quite up to par for the ones in the book, but I promised him we'd make one this summer.

  Here is what we got.  We used the brown paper to cover pringles cans, lemonade cans, a caprisun box and a regular box.  Everyone got to decorate their own side and their own turret.

I'm also proud of my little drawbridge. I got creative with some toothpicks, string and bottlecaps.  It winds up and everything.

I used hot glue to hold it all together.  Now its a guess to see how long our little creation lasts.