Living Without School: Thomas' and Anthony's castle

Sunday, July 09, 2006

Thomas' and Anthony's castle

8 comments:

Anonymous said...: Very, very cool. My boys love it.; 12:22 am
Leonie said...: They had so much fun. They used the plans from build a castle, and dh bought balsa wood and grey spray paint for them.

Iit was made with dh's help, of course. :-); 8:17 am
Anonymous said...: oh wow!!! that is so cool. we've only made 2 castles in the past and they were both the cardboard type so they're long gone... maybe this will give my boys some ideas. thanks for posting!; 9:14 am
Leonie said...: Yeah, we've made cardboard and paper castles before - one was a Hogwarts model - but they didn't last. I think the balsa wood one will be good for play and be more durable.

The plans from the website were very good and clear - some free and some very inexpensive to pay for and download...; 9:17 am
Anonymous said...: The castle looks really cool - better on the web than on my phone.

I finally figured out how to post comments...; 9:56 am
Theresa said...: That is awesome! I am definitely NOT going to show this to ds as he will surely want to make one and I am SO ready to leave the middle ages behind!LOL!; 10:49 am
Cindy said...: Pretty neat!

Thanks for the picture. Bet they had a great time.

(hey Luke.. great to see you in the comments! Come visit me at:
www.dogdayafternoons.blogspot.com or www.itisaboutthejourney.blogspot.com in your 'spare time')

Nice to be seeing you on line. Hope all is well.; 5:23 am
Leonie said...: Hey, Luke - this is the photo Thomas emailed me from his phone - I saved it and uploaded it. :-)

Theresa, IKWYM about not wanting to re-visit the Middle Ages again - every year or two we would say we would start history chronologically and we never used to get past Egypt! lol! So, random works best for us ( agree, Luke?).; 9:36 am

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