MATERIALS
Cardboard box(es)
Paper towel tubes
Duct tape
Royal Icing
Assorted candies and cookies
Sugar and wafer ice-cream cones
The children didn't make this replica of the king's castle just to impress him--but it sure didn't hurt their chances of winning that chestful of treasure.
To make the castle, the kids arranged boxes and paper towel tubes in a castle shape and taped them together with duct tape. (Candy and frosting are heavy, so they made sure their structure was well-secured.) Next, they spread Royal Icing on the castle and attached candies and cookies, as if they were decorating a gingerbread house. They made a sugar-wafer drawbridge with shoestring-licorice "ropes," ice-cream-cone spires and fruit-slice windows.
