First, we took a walk along the beach . . .
. . . and came home with a bag of sea-sand.
We waited patiently for a rainy day, then rummaged around the house and set down to have some fun!
This is what we used:
- Many kitchen paper, toilet paper and wrapping paper rolls (cut along one end to form turrets
- A cut in half cereal box (with an arch cut out of one side)
- A flat box (beer tray)
- An egg carton
- Craft glue (watered down slightly)
- Paint (optional)
Icky-sticky, ooey-gooey!
With glee the rolls and boxes and cartons were painted with glue . . . as were hands and legs! There's something fascinating about peeling dried glue off your skin, especially when you're 5 (okay, when you're a grown-up too).
Even more pleasing is mixing sand and glue . . . seriously, until you've tried it you don't know what you're missing out on!
The sticky bits were rolled, buried and sprinkled with sea-sand and then . . .
. . . b-o-r-i-n-g-l-y left to dry.
We painted the outside and inside of the flat boxes and b-o-r-i-n-g-l-y left them to dry.
Tick-tock, tick-tock.
Many finger smudges and "are they dry yet's" later we got to work arranging the pieces into our very own "once upon a time" castles (we chose to use non-permanent sticky-tack in case we want to keep re-planning the castles).
Once upon a time, in a castle on a hill, there lived a family of dinosaurs . . .
