Every castle needs a throne, so kids built one from a discarded chair for their Royal Swaggy Potato Knights castle in Flossmoor.
It was a beautiful place with walls that stood about five-foot tall, decorated with multi-colored hues. A horse was painted on a likely drawbridge. For fun, the castle had a tire swing.
Parents and guests came Aug. 4 to admire the castle and two other structures at the end of Hobo Jungle, an annual Homewood-Flossmoor Park District summer camp that lets kids take cast-off wood and other articles and . . .