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The Castle

is finally ready!

August 28, 2020 • Paper & Cardboard Cutting & Pasting Waldorf crafts Painting Recycling
What do you need?
a wooden peg doll
ball of cotton, for her hair
black felt-tip pen, eyes
coloured paint, gold paint and brushes
white and black craft foam
cardboard box and strong glue
bricks paper
knife and a cutting mat
ruler, pencil and scissors
red and yellow transparent paper
a twig and 4 birthday candles
fine chain, eyelets and 4 beads
If you still feel like it, you can make the last parts of your castle today. We show you step by step how to do that, so it may seem like more work than it is. If you push through it, it will be ready in no time. ;))

Here is how you make the Lady of the Castle
 

Paint a coat on the dioll, leave the front partly open.

Draw eyes on the Princess, using a black marker.

Paint the left open front white and roll cotton around your fingers.

Tie a thread in the middle then pull it tight.

Fit the hair on the head.

Trim it to your liking.

Stick the hair on the head.

Paint hands, a collar and golden-accents on the Princess.

Only a foam crown, painted gold and the Princess is ready.
 

How to make a Fireplace

Cut a strip of cardboard, to the size of your castle.

Make a score with closed scissors on both sides, to fold the sides downward.

This is the mantle of the fire place, close the back of the hearth..

Cut a piece of cardboard the size of the back.

Fit the hearth togeter, trim some if it is needed.

Measure then cut the stones paper for the mantle.

Stick mantle of the fire place together.

With the stone paper we first cover the top and both outer sides of the fireplace, but later on also the inner sides.
 

Cut off a base on which the fire place stands.

Stick on the top and the outer sides.

Allow the glue to dry well.

Cut off another print stone paper for the base.

Stick it on top of the base and let it dry.

Check if it all fits but do not yet glue.

Measure the back inside.

Cut a piece of black foam to fit the fireplace.

Stick it to the back of the hearth, on the inside.

Stick the sides inside the hearth and stick it on the base.

Cut a circle while the glue on the fire place dries.

Stick on pieces of wood and in between transparent red and yellow paper.

Stick the fire in the middle of the fireplace.

How to make the chandelier

Draw a circle around a glass on cardboard.
 

Draw in the circle a smaller circle.

Draw in the smaller circle a cross

Prick a hole in the center of the cross.

Cut out the center part.

Then a ring remains.

Paint the ring gold.

Prick 4 holes in the ring opposite each other and stick 4 beads between them
 
 

Paint the beads gold.

Stick four chains in the holes.

Squeeze eyelets on the ends.

Slide the eyelets on a ring.

Stick short cut birthday candles into the beads.

Hang the chandelier in the castle on a cotter pin.

Have lots of fun with your castle!