Why castles and fortresses? Well 1st grade girls are immediately interested in anything that involves Princesses and castles. The boys, however, take a little bit more effort to get them to think about castles so I use the "fortress" term and discuss the differences between a fortress and a castle (Castles are for royalty and fortresses are for protection and do not necessarily have royalty living in them).
We looked at different castles and fortress pictures on the big board and discussed the different elements that each one of them have to develop some criteria we could use to create our own castles and looked a diagram of a castle to get some more ideas. Then, we discussed in detail the need for arched windows when building a castle with stone.
Next, we took a black sheet of paper and drew the front view of a castle using a white oil pastel. We then cut out the castle drawn and learned how to fold our paper and use a snip of the scissors to make a hole in our windows to start cutting around and out. After this, we broke out the sponges and a couple of different colors of paint to "stack" the bricks of our castle.
Once the paint dried, we used colored cellophane to add windows. To finish it off, we used a strip of paper attached to each bottom corner to stand them up. I am thinking of lining them up in a display case with some string lights behind them to illuminate the windows. Any thoughts?
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