Craft Tutorial: Create Your Own Cardboard Castle For Small World Play

August 4, 2021

This week's craft activity from Jess is showing us how to create a crackin' castle from a recycled cardboard box.
Not only is this a fun-filled craft activity, but your kids will most certainly want to hold onto their castles for sensational small-world play.
Bring on the adventure, magic, fantasy and fun. 

Let's hope the kids enjoy many hours of small world play with their home-made creations and don't forget to share your castle designs with us on Instagram and Facebook, tagging @oskarswoodenark and using the hashtag: #oskarslittleartists. 

Step 1:

Get a cardboard box and cut the battlement
as well as the flap for the front door.

Step 2:

Cut out shields and flags.

Step 3:

Get your little artists to paint the box.

Step 4:

It's time to get creative and decorate the shields and flags with Kitpas crayons.

Step 5:

Glue triangles on paddle pop sticks for the flags. Decorate the castle walls with shields and glue on the towers with the flags.

Step 6:

Set up your cardboard castle for small world play.

Step 7:

Your cardboard castle is ready for play.