Shoebox castle - Arts, Crafts and DIY

39 Comments

My daughter used crayons and markers to draw inside the shoe box also. You can be as creative as you want with any materials you have around the house (Pom poms glitter etc) you can also use more than one different wrapping paper to make it unique!

Material

1 shoebox (preferably with a lid that comes off completely)
1 roll of wrapping paper
4 Chenille stems (or paddle pop sticks)
4 toilet paper rolls
Sticky tape
Scissors

Method

Using any wrapping you have (I had a roll of leftover blue paper) wrap your shoe box with the sticky tape.
Cut out castle doors using your scissors into the shoebox. Cut out doors also with the back of the wrapping paper (white part) and stick on to make them stand out and draw door handles with a pen or coloured marker.
Cover toilet rolls with wrapping paper leave a little extra on top to twist into a pine shape to resemble a tower.
Cut a small flag out of the wrapping paper (I used the white backing and drew C on the flags for my daughters name) using sticky tape stick to the top of the chenille stems and loop through the toilet rolls. Stick the toilet rolls on each corner each of the top of the shoebox.
Your castle is complete!

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- dbhall82
- 24 Sep 2015
  2:35 pm

39 Comments

- - mom19782016 said
  - 15 Oct 2020
    2:18 pm
Oh gosh, I loved this so hard!

- - celebrity said
  - 22 Aug 2020
    9:30 pm
Very unique idea, It looks great! It is amazing what one can do with items around the home instead of wasting money and buying craft materials.

- - mom462038 said
  - 13 Apr 2020
    5:26 pm
Lots of fab stuff to be made from a cardboard box. Looks great fun

- - mom152736 said
  - 03 Dec 2019
    1:54 pm
a box is always fun to work around with. yayy

- - mom19782016 said
  - 20 Apr 2019
    5:24 pm
Love it, there is so many things to do with boxes

- - Cookfromscratchmum said
  - 20 Nov 2018
    7:35 am
How cute it’s beautiful

- - kjgarner said
  - 29 Jun 2018
    9:58 pm
Great idea for all the kings and queens to play with
- kjgarner replied
  
  30 Jun 2018 , 10:31 pm
  Now you just need shoe box furniture
- - mom112217 said
  - 27 Oct 2017
    12:48 pm
A great idea for the young ones!

- - mom111059 said
  - 29 Sep 2016
    9:35 pm
I’ll have to save my shoeboxes now. Great idea.

- - mom111059 said
  - 12 Aug 2016
    3:26 pm
what fun! recycling at its best. I’m sure this would make for many hours of happy playing. Thank you for sharing your fun idea.

- - mom19782016 said
  - 03 Feb 2016
    1:47 pm
Haha, love it! What a great idea.

- - mom81879 said
  - 30 Nov 2015
    5:42 pm
Who would look at a shoe box and think “castle” some clever creative mums out there

- - mom62624 said
  - 29 Nov 2015
    12:18 pm
A fun project; thanks!.

- - curlytops said
  - 27 Oct 2015
    8:44 am
This looks great! I love the shiny paper.

- - jellybean01 said
  - 23 Oct 2015
    11:24 pm
Very cool found my next craft project to do with my daughter…she will love it

- - 4littlemunchkins said
  - 13 Oct 2015
    9:45 pm
Good way to use the old shoe boxes.

- - mom113055 said
  - 06 Oct 2015
    12:00 am
shoebox castle

- - dbhall82 said
  - 05 Oct 2015
    8:41 pm
Thank you for all the lovely comments!!

- - june11 said
  - 05 Oct 2015
    6:55 pm
We covered child’s size one with paper mache then got some plain coloured paper on which we drew pencils etc, then cut them out and glued them onto the lid. It kept the kids amused for awhile. They now want to find a medicum size box to decorate for colouring in books.
- mom94125 replied
  
  14 Oct 2015 , 11:58 am
  sounds like a great project to do hey. seems like you had fun making it lol. awesome
- - kymichelle said
  - 30 Sep 2015
    5:11 pm
My son would love this – very cool idea thanks