Fort Friday

Happy Fort Friday! Let's start off today with some reader inspiration! I love that you all "play" along and build forts during the week. If you want to send me your inspiration just email me the photo and info!

Love this big movie watching/sleeping fort from The Kerstiens' Crazy Corner

Next up is Koby's reading fort! Great job Koby!

I wanted to share a few things I found on Ana White. If you haven't been to the site yet it's a site with TONS of DIY plans and building inspiration. Here are a few of their reader submissions, they were all built by them using plans from the site! loft, playhouse, castle, superhero bed

Love this outdoor fort from Livingroomfort.com

as well as this major blanket tent

Fort Friday!

Happy Fort Friday! Here at All for the Boys we celebrate Fridays with some awesome fort inspiration from around the web. Whether made of sheets, cardboard, wood, or sticks, forts are a place we can go to transport our minds to wherever we want to go. You can play, dream, relax, or create in a fort. Everything is better in a fort!

If you want to share your fort (or an awesome one you found) just send it to me!

Ashley from Under the Sycamore found a way to beat the heat with a huge fort. More gorgeous pics on her blog.

Check out this cardboard swiss cheese fort from the Cardboard Collective! Go check out the "how to" on their site.

Heather from the House of Woyaks visited the largest treehouse in the world!

 

Dying over this playhouse with a bridge, pond, and pergola - yeah. From Mox Design designed by Steve Appolloni

And how cool is this reader submitted spaceship fort - the gear sticks are a must!

Collapsible Cardboard Playhouse

My friend Jenn from Ambrosia Creative has done it again. In her post over on She Knows she gives a tutorial to create the perfect collapsible cardboard playhouse. Pretty it up and give one as a gift or make one any time for your kids. LOVE this!

View the great step by step HERE

Fort Friday

Everyone's favorite weekly feature - Fort Friday!

I absolutely LOVE this Shelter of Nostalgia by Worapong Manupipatpong on mocoloco

I have to share this site that Amber from The Cardboard Collective sent to me - Fort Builder (perfect right?!) You may recognize someone on there as well!

Love the air fort (fort supported completely by air) from Instructables

and this Adventure Playground in The Bay Area

Or the tall forts from Public Workshop

These cuties sent in their fort from mon petit lyons

Fort Friday

It's once again Fort Friday on All for the Boys where we celebrate Friday with some fort inspiration!

The Ballast boys made a perfect living room fort during a recent rainy day. I can't think of a better rainy day activity!

A tall blanket fort by joshua twentythree on Flickr

Love this decorated cardboard playhouse from Life as a Thrifter

A great idea to use tension rods for a hallway fort from ikatbag

Love this playhouse from Legehytten

How cool is this from Richard Keal Woodwork?

Have a great weekend!

Fort Friday

Happy Fort Friday! Here at All for the Boys we celebrate Fridays with some awesome fort inspiration from around the web. Whether made of sheets, cardboard, wood, or sticks, forts are a place we can go to transport our minds to wherever we want to go. You can play, dream, relax, or create in a fort. Everything is better in a fort!

One of my favorite parts of Fort Friday is seeing all of the fort building you have been up to!

This Little Home of Mine shares her son's very first fort. I love the addition of a tunnel and ball pit!

Unfortunately Chipmonkey has been trapped inside due to fires, but at least they get to pass the time in this fun fort!

 The Daily Quacks sent over her son's little fort for one. A good size I think - no parents allowed! ;)

I love getting "first fort" submissions. Here is this cute little man's first fort!

Here's a cool DIY Backyard Teepee video from the Kin Community (you can also check out their DIY fort kit)

Did you see our fort? We posted about it yesterday in case you missed it!

This little DIY playhouse is pretty cute! from Apartment Therapy

I love a good treehouse - from Barbara Butler

Who else read the Boxcar Children books and used to wish and dream about living in a boxcar yourself? I did! At the Adventures of Bear they played boxcar children complete with a boxcar!

Have a great weekend! If you want to submit your fort photos just send them to info[at]allfortheboys[dot]com and let me know how you want them credited (if at all).

Makedo makes forts easy

The awesome people over at Makedo sent us a FreePlay Kit for One to play with. I had originally intended on having someone help us make this extravagant fort structure (and I may still try) but I think the fun of this product is that KIDS can use it and I wanted my boys to create something of their own.

I know it's fun to see all the inspiration of the amazing things this product can do.

(all photos from Makedo's Inspiration Gallery be sure to check out the rest!)

I think this is a GREAT product for a gift for kids and wanted to show what the kids could do with it on their own. I helped a little to show them how the product worked and helped them brainstorm a bit on how to get what was in their mind to work. 

We just moved and had several boxes to choose from but they chose some large boxes to construct their walls. The Makedo kit comes with a safe saw and a hole poker (SO easy) to create holes for the "bolts". They attached their walls together with the "bolts and nuts".

The black thing you see there can be a moveable hinge (how cool would a door be?!) or you can lock it so it doesn't move. They put a couple of those on the flaps of their smaller boxes to give them some height.

Once the walls were up they wanted a sheet for the roof to allow some air in (it was 105F) so we added a sheet over the top. Taking a cue from our couch forts they added a broom for height and attached a few points of the sheet to the boxs so it wouldn't fly away. Then they decorated.

A good fort has a guard right?

Their fort even has a table perfect for playing UNO (our favorite card game). The broom is stuck inside the box with a couple of bricks to keep it from sliding around.

At night a fort with lights is usually requested. We scored these plastic outdoor bulbs on clearance at Target.

The score? 4 thumbs up from my boys. The fort was sturdy, easy to put together, and the parts can be used over and over. We have some other ideas up our sleeves for Makedo. But I'm glad our first project was something the boys did on their own!

There are all kinds of sets on Amazon or the Makedo site. We recommend them!

Fort Friday!

My kids have been making forts and destroying them left and right lately. Not too many pics from me but we have a big fort in the works! Good thing I have awesome readers who share their forts with me!

This one was built by an awesome grandpa! They even have an adult fort looking on with a pizza oven!

I think these 2 might be our biggest Fort Friday fans right now! Here's there latest fort

These two found that they had fort building in common and what a mighty fort they built!

For forts around the internet how do you feel about hanging from a tree?! from Waldsielgarten

Knit Fort by Matt Gagnon Studio

A great idea for a party -  a crepe paper tent! from Green Wedding Shoes