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How to Make Castle Walls

When we found out we were doing a medieval theme for our event, we were quite baffled as to how to create a castle at a budget-conscious price. Thanks to the instruction of Joel Harmon from Bayside Church, whose construction team pioneered this method, the end result looked fantastic!
Our final process was a little different than what Bayside did, but it worked for our team!

First we started with the large 4'x8' sheets of 2-inch thick styrofoam that is sold at Home Depot or Lowes. They come out to something around $20-22 each retail. The official name is "polystyrene." Here's Glen Nielsen, our event director, and me carrying the sheets in.

Our construction team began by gluing together the pieces.

Pretty soon our lobby was overtaken by drying styrofoam pieces.

Then they used a ruler and drew pencil lines for the bricks. The bricks were 12"x24" each. They took PVC pipe glue and ran it across the pencil lines. The glue ate into the styrofoam, creating an indentation that looked like the mortar lines for brick.

Here you can see how they put the pieces on a table to process them more easily. Tony Rossetto was one of the construction team guys and I think he did most of the lines.