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Tuesday, 21 April 2015

|CREATE|loo roll castles


T led this cute little activity, we were playing with his Knights and dragons, sort of re-enacting St George and the dragon and he asked if we could make a castle, wow, make a castle, not too much of a tall order then!

Then it hit me!  I raided our box of loo rolls and started forming turrets, T copied, if you look closely you'll see his.  


I just made 8 similar sized slits and the folded every other one in.


I then cut out a bit of card, drew on a port cullis and windows (are they called windows on a castle!?!?) then just sellotaped the castle to the turrets both front and back, as shown above.


I love it when T and I work together to make things, he was so proud and has played for ages with them, I'm sure they won't be going away after St George's day


Maybe next time we should use them with the pirate ship.

You can find all our St George's Day activities from last year here.

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20 comments :

  1. Kath S21 April 2015 at 09:25

    Very Cute :) May have to give this one a go #toddlerapprovedtuesday

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    1. Leandra Bramham28 April 2015 at 16:37

      Thanks Kath, I'd love to see some photo's if you do x

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  2. Anonymous21 April 2015 at 11:13

    Very cool. I always keep the loo rolls and never know what to do with them! Perfect.

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  3. Clare's Little Tots21 April 2015 at 14:28

    Just shared on my Facebook page. I can't love this enough. its amazing! #ToddlerApprovedTuesday

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    1. Leandra Bramham28 April 2015 at 16:38

      Thanks so much for that Clare, very much appreciated x

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  4. Toni Gym Bunny Mummy21 April 2015 at 21:14

    I love this, it's brilliant. I'm going to be sharing on my facebook page too! #ToddlerApprovedTuesday

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  5. My Bored Toddler22 April 2015 at 11:17

    Love this! Loo rolls are another thing we have way too many of in my 'do something with these but I'm not sure what' pile!

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    1. Leandra Bramham28 April 2015 at 16:39

      Thank you x

      It was one of my favourite little recycling projects :)

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  6. Jenny Eaves23 April 2015 at 10:31

    This is fab craft! The castle looks great, I'm sure he will play with it for a very long time! :) xx

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    1. Leandra Bramham28 April 2015 at 16:39

      I think we might, now just to think of more small worlds that we can use them for! x

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  7. Rachael Robinson24 April 2015 at 16:20

    This is so great, we were actually going to do this for St George's day but we never got round to it (I have a huuuuuuuuuuuuge collection of loo rolls now though!) Absolutely fab, honey. Ray xx

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    1. Leandra Bramham28 April 2015 at 16:40

      Thanks Ray, appreciate your support as always x

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  8. Sarah Doyle25 April 2015 at 20:48

    what a great idea! So cute. Will be saving this for future years when D&E understand the St georges day thing more xx
    #toddlerapprovedtuesday

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    1. Leandra Bramham28 April 2015 at 16:41

      Glad you like it Sarah, it's a struggle with how much to tell them when they are small T found out about the dragon slaying from nursery so I'm now trying to prevent him from trying to kill the dragon each time we play (yes, we're still playing with it!) :( x

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  9. Katy Gibson27 April 2015 at 13:47

    Great post my boys would love to make these thanks for linking up ~ Anything&Everything x

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  10. Linda Hobbis28 April 2015 at 20:17

    That's such a cute idea. I'd have to adapt my castle to a an HQ for Spiderman and Hulk but I reckon it would work. x

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  11. Zena Goldman4 May 2015 at 21:12

    What a brilliant impromptu activity, my daughter will love it when I pull this one out of the craft hat! thanks so much for linking up with #myfavouritepost

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