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Cardboard Roll Sandcastle Craft

Love making sandcastles but can’t always make it to the beach? Build your own Cardboard Roll Sandcastle Craft any time of year, even if the beach is miles and miles away!

Cardboard Roll Sandcastle Craft

There’s nothing better than a trip to the beach. The ocean waves, the cool water, sand in your toes, and building sandcastles. We live in the midwest, though, with not a lot of chance to visit sandy ocean beaches, so we really look forward to the times we do.

Cardboard Roll Sandcastle Craft

We may not get to visit the beach as often as we’d like, but we love crafting about it. Whether sandcastles like this craft or our Paper Loop Sharks, Paper Bag Whale Craft, Crayon Resist Watercolor Fish, Rock Crabs Craft, and Simple Paper Turtle Craft. We have many more ocean crafts, too!

Cardboard Roll Sandcastle Craft

To make our Cardboard Roll Sandcastle Craft you will need blue and brown cardstock, brown acrylic paint, a toilet paper size cardboard roll, brown and white markers, scissors, a glue stick, and glue dots or liquid glue.

Cardboard Roll Sandcastle Craft

Supplies needed:

Cardboard roll
Cardstock – blue, brown
Brown acrylic paint
Markers – brown, white
Scissors
Glue stick
Glue dots or liquid glue

Begin with a full sheet of blue cardstock.

Cardboard Roll Sandcastle Craft

Paint the bottom half or so with a brown, sand-colored paint. Let dry.

Cardboard Roll Sandcastle Craft

Cut a rectangle out of the brown cardstock. Decide if you want the middle to be a castle wall or tower. For this one, we made a wall. So you will also need to make battlements, those notches, along the top.

Cardboard Roll Sandcastle Craft

Also draw a simple door with the brown marker.

Cardboard Roll Sandcastle Craft

Glue in the center of the page.

Cardboard Roll Sandcastle Craft

Now cut the toilet paper cardboard roll in half lengthwise.

Cardboard Roll Sandcastle Craft

And cut two triangles for the tops of the towers out of the brown cardstock.

Cardboard Roll Sandcastle Craft

Position the triangles on either side of the wall.

Cardboard Roll Sandcastle Craft

Use the glue dots, two along each side, to glue the cardboard roll in place. A strong liquid school glue should work as well, though you’ll probably need to hold in place a few seconds to secure.

Cardboard Roll Sandcastle Craft

Decorate the cardboard roll with windows using the white marker. Add wavy lines above the sandcastle, as well.


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Cardboard Roll Sandcastle Craft

So lovely! You could make it even prettier by adding gems or sequins, too. You could even make the sandcastle colorful. We really like how you can get so creative with this craft. We have many more great summer crafts for kids at Our Kid Things, too!

Cardboard Roll Sandcastle Craft

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