Rock on...Camelot rock 'n' roll marble game



You need: two Pringles cartons, a couple of milk cartons, one shoe box,  one roll of sticky-back plastic e.g. from Silvan (about 44 kr a roll) or wrapping paper, shiny paper for turrets and roofs, a yoghurt pot and 'creme fraiche' pot, some glue or a glue gun (but be careful - the glue gets VERY hot), black and grey newspaper pictures from which to cut out the windows and rocks round the base of the castle, some scissors and a few marbles or small balls of clay made to look like rocks. A newspaper to cover the table before you start.

Once you've made the castle, put it on the floor and from a set distance away, roll the marbles through the gateways you've cut in the castle wall. Younger kids have more fun if you use a bigger box and tennis balls. Have fun!

Measure the tube against the side of the box
and mark where it comes ends.

Imagine the open end of the tube is a round clock face and cut slits up to your mark at 12 o'clock and 3 o'clock..

Slot the tubes over the corners of the box to make sure they fit snugly. 

Take them off the box again and cover them with stick-backed plastic, wrapping 

paper or rocks cut out of grey newspaper pictures. Cut up the slits again and 

slot and glue them down over the corners of the box again.





Measure enough gold paper to make a collar around each yoghurt pot and leave about 5 cm of gold paper sticking over the end. Before sticking the collar around each pot, measure and cut roughly equally spaced slits down to where the tower ends. Now bend every other flap right down and stick it to the upside down bottom of the yoghurt pot. Bend the alternate flaps over halfway down and stick them so altogether they formed the castellations (bits poking up, down, up, down, up at the top of the tower). See in the picture below, we haven't finished the taller tower yet.



The slits in the square tower at the back should be at 12 o'clock and 6 o'clock.

The rim of the creme fraiche pot looked great cut off and

lowered upside down over the yoghurt pot. 

Shame I didn't think of that until I'd taken all the other photos.



We didn't stick the smaller milk carton (back left) down because then we

can keep the marbles inside it so they don't get lost.

We cut equal sized strips of sticky-backed plastic (2 cm x 6 cm) and added them, bent
double, at intervals around the walls of the finished castle to produce the same effect.

Older kids get more maths practice if you use numbers they have trouble multiplying and adding up ;o).