Coffee Pod Castle Tower

Build a castle tower out of coffee pods. Make sure your princess's hair is long enough to be saved by her knight in shining armor!
Materials
- Feathers White
- Friendship Thread Basic Colors
- Pastel Fuzzy Sticks
- Extra Fine Glitter Variety Pack
- Acrylic Paint Jars, 24 Assorted colors
- Craft Sticks 50 Pack
- 7 Coffee Pods
- Craft Glue
- Hot Glue ***May Require Adult Assistance
- Pink Marker
- Black Marker
- Card Stock
- Scissors
Instructions
Step 1. Gather your supplies. | |
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| Step 2. Glue together (6) coffee pods as shown. |
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| Step 3. Paint gray. |
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| Step 4. Mix gray paint with a little bit of black paint to create a dark gray. Paint stripes around the tower as shown. |
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| Step 5. Paint vertical lines between all the stripes to create bricks. |
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| Step 6. Paint another coffee pod gray. |
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| Step 7. Cut off about 1″ from the coffee pod. |
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| Step 8. Paint bricks in dark gray. |
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| Step 9. Download, print and cut out provided circle template on card stock. |
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| Step 10. Paint dark gray. |
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| Step 11. Cut slit to the middle. |
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| Step 12. Wrap into a cone shape. |
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| Step 13. Glue cone to top of single coffee pod. |
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| Step 14. Paint a craft stick gray. |
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| Step 15. Glue to the inside of the single coffee pod. |
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| Step 16. Glue craft stick to the inside of the top coffee pod. |
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| Step 17. Twist the ends of (2) green fuzzy sticks together. |
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| Step 18. Wrap fuzzy sticks around the tower to create a vine, as shown. Secure with glue at the top and the bottom. |
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| Step 19. Cut 3″ pieces of green fuzzy sticks. |
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| Step 20. Bend into a leaf shape. |
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| Step 21. Glue leaves to the vine. |
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| Step 22. Paint the top of the clothespin peach. |
![]() | Step 23. Cover the area from the top of the clothespin to the break in the clothespin in fine iridescent glitter. |
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| Step 24. Fold golden friendship thread until you are happy with the thickness. Make sure it is a little shorter than the tower. |
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| Step 25. Glue to the clothespin, as shown. |
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| Step 26. Cut white and pink feathers to about 2″. |
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| Step 27. Glue pink feathers around clothespin, starting where the glitter ends. |
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| Step 28. Glue white feathers on top of pink. |
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| Step 29. Draw eyes and a mouth on your princess. |