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" />" width="500" height="214" alt="ccb" />" />:About a month back, Buckwheat and I had a very special birthday girl to celebrate and I had the perfect gift idea in my bookmarked files.
If you would like to try this yourself, I encourage you to go check out her tutorial.
Our kit contained everything a girl (or boy) needs to make a super, duper, awesome fort.
I sewed loops onto sheets at 7 different locations (per sheet)
for lots of different hanging options.
This was our little accessory bag. It looks very ragamuffin because I used an old knitted scarf that I purposefully put into the dryer so that it would felt. In the end, I decided it was a too shabby, but my fabric supply was limited so used it anyway.
It was my first drawstring bag. The next will be better.
Our bag contained a couple of different types of clips and suction cups with hooks for attaching the fort to mirrors and glass doors.
We put everything in a basket. We added a rope and a flashlight, though I felt a little nervous about giving a child a rope for her birthday.
Fair warning: If you are giving this fort kit to a child less than 7 years of age, expect to get involved with the assembly. The fort kit has already made it back to our living quarters once and I had the pleasure and testing it out. It worked beautifully.
And bonus!
Forts are great for concealing the fact that you are the mother of a child who has hoarding issues.
This was such a very cute project. I would have loved to have gotten it as a child. I also love the photo with the dog and the girl or girl's hand. Great job.
ReplyDeleteI would have loved this as a kid too. We made forts all the time. Love My Friend in the photo. Awww. :)
ReplyDeleteThat is a GREAT project/gift idea! You remember the forts we made with those old electric blankets and how sometimes we would get hit in the head with the hard electricity parts embedded in the blanket at unexpected places? Other than that, forts are awesome. I like the sewn-on loops. Very nifty. I just had a memory of the "labyrinths" we used to make at the Y (MCA) Fun Camp with the gym mats. Remember how much everybody loved those? Also, remember how furious I would get if some stupid boys knocked part of it down? And then you would have to do damage control? I seem to remember you being on my side on that one, helping me repair the building and reporting degenerates, so I could go beat them up (I was one of the biggest people still left at the Y at this point--I mean, I was already doing architecture). Thanks, sister. Maybe we should start a bi-coastal business togethHEY LOOK OVER THERE IT'S A LADYBUG
ReplyDeleteThanks ya'll. I want one too. Though I still have to make Charley one. I'll have one then.
ReplyDeleteSunny I do not remember getting knocked on the head with the electric blanket mechanism. But, I've always been tougher than you, sooo, that's probably why.
I will NEVER forget those "labyrinths". That one ranks up there with favorite childhood activities. I wish we could do it again but I know it just wouldn't be the same. Yes, I was VERY upset when those stanky boys would ruin everything just when we had it ready for living.
I don't know.. I'm pretty tough sister. Let's go outside and box it out.
ReplyDeleteIt would be good if those gym mats were a little bigger now. But then they would be too big for us to put up and prolly hurt us real bad when the boys made them fall on top of us. Kay, we gotta think of somethin else.