Fort Friday!

Now I know why people don't always like going on vacation - it's crazy when you get back! This week has flown by for me and next is the boys' last week of school. So crazy!

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!

You can share your forts by emailing me, Facebook, or Instagram and tag @allfortheboys and #fortfriday (by contacting me you are giving me permition to share your photo on the blog. Let me know if you want it linked up anywhere) - some are tagging me properly and I'm not able to pull it up again later :( So if you don't see yours here, email it to me!

You never know what you'll come home to when you leave the house - a huge fort maybe?

Anything goes when fort building - use anything you can find! from The Natural Mom

Love this happy fort from @lifeasyouliveit on Instagram

Whether it's for your action figures or yourself you can't go wrong with a cardboard castle from Reading Confetti

Check out this awesome fort Six Golden Coins found!

Happy Fort Friday!

Dinosaur Week Part 4: Activities

I've got some fun dino related activities for you to add to your "to do" list today!

A cute dinosaur bean bag game from toddler approved

Dinosaur skull matching from Living Montessori Now

DIY volcano from Flutter Flutter

Create a large dino land like this one seen on Domestic Candy

or make some dino tales from Running with Scissors

Let's Hear It For the Boy

  It's Let's Hear it for the Boy Thursday! A link party all for boys! Each week myself and 3 other Bloggers pick our favorite projects to highlight from the previous weeks party. If you have a blog, feel free to link up. If you don't, click around to find tons of inspiration for the boys (and men) in your life!

  On to last week's top picks:

 

Kim from seven thirty three's picked:

What you can make with a pool noodle round-up by The Crafty Blog Staker

(Turns out, A LOT!) 

Heidi from Mom's Crafty Space's picked:

Static Electricity by Kids Activities Blog

 Sara from Mom Endeavors top choice:

Constellation Sandwiches by Between a Dog and a Hard Place

Allison from All for the Boys chose:

Turbulence on a Plane explained with Jello by Kids Activities Blog

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PARTY GUIDELINES:  1) BOY related projects only (projects for grown boys are OK) 2) Link to your blog post, not your main page 3) Display our party button or link back to any of the 4 blogs to share the love 4) To make it even more fun, visit others that have linked up and leave comments

Dinosaur Week Part 3: Plastic Dinos

Man a lot of people must like dinosaurs because there are a TON of great ideas out there! Today I'm linking you to some awesome projects with plastic dinos that you can find easily (even at the dollar store!)

The Design Editor has a downloadable dino book made with plastic dinos

Dinosaur toothbrush holder from Parents

A dinosaur corn cob holder from Instructables

Dino photo stands from Photojojo

Dinosaur terrariums are fun to build, move around and display!

from Yellow Brick Home

from The Haps

from Craft Foxes

from The Gold Jellybean

Dinosaur Week Part 2: DIY Dino Eggs

These DIY dinosaur eggs are a great way to keep dinosaur lovers busy. Once you've surprised them you can have them make their own!

Projects for Preschoolers has all the intructions and info. You'll need dirt, flour, salt, sand, and of course, dinosaurs.

I'd love to see if you try this yourself! Make it more interesting by giving them tools to open and clean the dinosaurs.

The Gingerbread Mom made some out of balloons and paper mache to fill with treats for a party - that could be a fun way to start off dinosaur week with some dinosaur activities inside!

Welcome to Dinosaur Week!

Happy Monday everyone! I'm back home after being gone since Wednesday afternoon. Missed my guys for sure! We are kicking off Dinosaur Week with some great ideas from my friend Allison Aars. Her blog You Have Your Blog We Have Aars is a GREAT source of inspiration for activities!

She does themed months for her little guy and they featured a month of dinosaur activities so I thought I'd share my favorites.

DIY dinosar feet

Footprint Fossils

Dinosaur footprints

If you have dinosaur projects you'd like to contribute this week - send them over!

Rocket Launching with Estes! (a giveaway)

We are SO excited to share our latest "unplug and build" activity this time with Estes!

--------------------> Click HERE to read more and enter to WIN!

Fort Friday Space Edition

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!

You can share your forts by emailing me, Facebook, or Instagram and tag @allfortheboys and #fortfriday (by contacting me you are giving me permition to share your photo on the blog. Let me know if you want it linked up anywhere) - some are tagging me properly and I'm not able to pull it up again later :( So if you don't see yours here, email it to me!

I'll be back to sharing some of your creations next week but this week I wanted to focus on spaceships since I found so many to go with space week.

This one from Fairy Dust Teaching looks so real (well to little ones)

We all know this famous spaceship from The Party Wall

Loved this one from the brilliant space party by Sara Westbrook Photography

Rad spaceship from Mr. Mcgroovy on Flickr - you can download a spaceship plan from his site

A how to from Stryker on Instructables

an AWESOME spaceship bed built for one lucky little guy from Reddit