Sunday 1 April 2012

Three castles and no track

It's been gloriously sunny here and Isaac has been making the most of it. The wooden railway doesn't lend itself to his outside activities, but the construction work continues. On two separate visits to the beach he has constructed wonderful sandcastles and has built another fort from a cardboard box as a birthday present for someone. I thought it might be nice to share a couple of the photos here.



This is castle one, built on a dry sandy beach in Suffolk. It was a bit impromptu as we were waiting around. Isaac quickly realised dry sand was never going to make anything impressive, so he set about finding stones to create the pattern. The stick to the left is the draw bridge.








Castle two was made on a beach in West Sussex a few days later. The sand was wetter and lent itself to building something more substantial. Isaac added a moat to this creation and tried filling it. That day he built two other castles as well. As the tide rose it first filled the moats of each castle and the slowly overwhelmed them. Isaac stood up the beach stoically surveying the process and obviously quite fascinated by how it happened.











And finally castle three. This was built as a present for a friend's birthday. Having done something similar for his cousin, Isaac gets a lot of pleasure out of constructing these gifts. He raided his stickers to decorate it and painted the moat all around the castle (the blue band at the bottom). Out of sight on this photo is a cotton wool forest at the back. The draw bridge was Isaac's idea, but the execution was down to daddy. Isaac finally looked through his Lego box for two knights which he will give to his friend as well.



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