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No castle is complete without a drawbridge, that raises and lowers, a fact I’m certain that your kids are clamoring for as much as the kids here are.
To start, poke holes in the corners of your drawbridge. If you have access to a needle and thread, the best thing is to just poke the needle straight through and trail thread behind. If, on the other hand, you’re like me and have been running around with missing buttons on your shirt since 2002, you don’t have a needle and thread handy. Or probably at all.
I used an X-acto knife to cut out very small triangles from my castle. If you don’t have an X-acto knife, the pointy end of a compass needle (the thing you draw circles with) or the pointy end of scissors can be used to jab a hole through cardboard. Needless to say, a grown-up should do this part. Whatever you made the hole with, wiggle it around a bit to ensure that the hole is good and wide.
Close the drawbridge. Using the holes you’ve just made to sight by, poke identical holes in the front of the castle.
Now for the tricky part. You’ve got to poke the thread through the holes you’ve just made. If it won’t go, try wetting it. If that doesn’t work, make a loop in the string and crease it, like you’re folding it in half and then wet it again. If that doesn’t work, widen your holes.
After you get everything threaded, tie the string in a knot, behind the castle wall. The less slack you leave, the better, but the drawbridge will still work either way.
You can raise or lower the drawbridge by pulling on or releasing the string.
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