Make your little princess's party extra special by building a castle.
A little preparation can transform a party room into a custom castle for your little princess's birthday party. Set up near the front door so the party guests have to walk through it to get to the rest of the house, or fill one room in your home with the castle, and host the party festivities games, food and crafts within the castle walls. You also can locate sleepovers within the walls of the castle.
Instructions
1. Paint two appliance boxes gray. Once they are dry, cut two- or three-inch wide and deep notches in the top of two large appliance boxes all the way around and add a few windows. A sturdy utility knife or serrated kitchen knife is best for cutting through corrugated cardboard. These two finished boxes will be the turrets on either side of the castle.
2. Set the turrets in the party room. Stretch a gray plastic table cloth between the two turrets. Staple or tape the plastic securely to attach it to the cardboard turrets. Use a black permanent marker to draw a few rectangle bricks. Cut a doorway in the center of the table cloth.
3. Lay a piece of cardboard on the floor in front of the castle door. This will be the drawbridge. Hang rope from the far end of the cardboard to the tablecloth castle wall. A blue plastic tablecloth under the drawbridge can represent water in a moat.
4. Connect homemade torches to the drawbridge rope by stuffing toilet paper tubes with red, yellow and orange tissue paper. Add flags to the top of the turrets. The birthday girl's party guests can design the flags, or you can make them ahead of time.
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