Beautiful Fairy Tale Castle 7.1

Fairy tale dreams come true with this castle with towers and drawbridge all made of STYROFOAM™.

Completion time – 2-4 hours

Materials
STYROFOAM Brand Foam
4- 2" x 12" x 18" sheets
4- 6" cones
8- 8" disc
11- 1 1/2" balls
24- 1" balls

Other Materials
Acrylic paint - gray and red
Gray felt
2- large jump rings
2- large push pins
4- ft. 1/8" ribbon or braid
Felt scraps, gold doilies etc. for flags and other

Tools
Utility knife with new blade
T-square
Thick white craft glue and/or low temperature glue
Toothpicks
Wooden skewer (optional)

Instructions
1. Cut the following from two foam sheets: two pieces 12" x 12";
four pieces 3 1/4" square; four pieces 12" x 1 1/4" x 2".

2. The two 12" x 12" pieces will serve as the front and back
walls of the castle. Cut out a drawbridge door, approximately
6" wide and 9" high, from the center of one of the 12" x 12"
pieces. Slice the drawbridge door in half, so it's 1" thick.

3. The two 2" x 12" x 18" pieces will be the side walls. Glue
together the front, back and side walls using white craft
glue; insert toothpicks between the seams for reinforcement.
Glue the 12" x 1 1/4" x 2" strips into the four inside
corners. Glue the 3 1/4" squares to the tops of each corner.

4. Cut the 1 1/2" balls in half; glue balls evenly to top of castle walls.

5. Cut the 1" balls in half; glue balls evenly around each tower base.

6. Cut the disc in half, and then cut 1/3 off each half. Glue
two larger wedges on to the front wall, 3/4" from either side of the door.

7. Create the mechanics so that the drawbridge door can move
up and down. Glue toothpicks or a short piece of a wooden
skewer into the sides of the drawbridge door, about 1/8" from
the bottom edge. Use a toothpick or the point of a skewer to
dig out two narrow channels, 1" x 1/8" x 1/8", on either side
of the doorway on the bottom of the castle wall. The skewers
or toothpicks in the door should slip into this channel so the
door can move freely.

8. Paint the castle and the drawbridge gray; paint the cones
(towers) red. Let dry.

9. Cover the inside of the drawbridge door with gray felt.

10. Cut two, 1" long x 1/8" wide pieces of gray felt. Attach
two large jump rings to the front wall of the castle with
loops of felt glued to the wall.

11. Slip the skewers in the drawbridge door into the channels
on either side of the door opening. Glue a strip of felt over
the channels, being careful that the skewers can still move
freely. Knot the ends of two 24" ribbons; push the knots into
either side at the top of the door; glue. Run the ribbon
through the loops on the castle wall. Insert pushpins into the
door surround. Wrap the ribbon around the pushpin to secure.

12. Glue on cone towers.
13. Decorate the castle. (We used banners cut from red felt
and decorated with pieces of gold doilies.)

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