Monthly Archive for June, 2007

King of the Castle

In the medieval period a king needed strong castles to defend his borders. The massive buildings made his own people feel safe and sent out the message ‘don’t mess with me!’ to his enemies.

So what makes a good castle? We reckoned the best way to find out would be to build one ourselves.

We started by making the ‘stone’ building blocks – and it takes quite a few blocks to build a castle – as you can imagine!


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