How to build an indoor fort with kids

The first thing you have to determine is if you are going camping, taking a fishing trip or hiding from aliens from outer space, because they all require different indoor forts. Have fun with your children, let them use their imagination and it will soar.

If you are going on a camping trip, have them get their sleeping bag and anything else they want to take on the camping trip. I always kept old blankets just to make forts out of, the kids enjoy it and it is fun to watch them play. Take four kitchen chairs and drape the blankets over them to create an area that is completely enclosed. You can secure the blankets underneath the legs of the chairs to make sure they don’t move. Then step back and invite the children to play. You might have to rebuild it a couple of times as they will get rambunctious but they will have fun.

When it comes to fishing trips the possibilities are endless. When my son was small, he always wanted to camp out and go fishing. We would create a bed in the family room and he would go fishing off the end of the bed. You couldn’t step on the floor because the floor was water and you would get wet and scare away all the fish. If you want to create an indoor fort for fishing then take the blankets and create a tent over the couch and that is the shore and then they can fish into the carpet with is the river or lake.

Now hiding from an alien from outer space or being an alien from outer space is fun. The best way to make a fort for this is to use an old box, the larger the better, and make it into a space ship. Let you child help you decorate it. You can use different colors of paint and colored jewels to decorate it into a first class ship. The kids will play with this for days and have a ball racing through space.

There are many different types of forts you can make, but the most important part is to let the children have fun creating what type of fort they want. Not only will the children enjoy making the different forts but so will the adults watching them use their minds to create different worlds.