I traveled to Romania to tour the castles!

Well, not exactly.

I work at a kids’ day camp in Minneapolis and St. Paul called Leonardo’s Basement– a really cool organization that focuses on art, science and technology for kids of all ages. Every year, we have a one week class dedicated to building a cardboard castle from lumber, screws, refrigerator boxes and creativity: a full size, two story, five-towered beast of a playhouse.

We start on Monday morning with a few puzzle pieces laid out for the kids, get to know each others’ names, go over safety (basic safety and also use of specific tools).

 

 

On Wednesday, we added cardboard walls.

 

On Thursday we practiced swordplay…

staged scrimmages…

and put a few finishing touches on the castle.

On Friday, we went over rules and prepared for battle.

And then, we scrambled to our defensive posts…

and fought off the attacking army…

and there weren’t too many casualties…

and all around had a pretty good time!