Fort Friday!

If you're new - 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!

Don't forget if you participate in Fort Friday (or make a fort any day of the week) and want to share email me at info@allfortheboys.com 

Let's start out this week with YOUR inspiration!

The boys over at Becoming Homegrown constructed a fort with lots of boxes and a vinyl shower curtain (which they personalized)

Some Fort Friday fans all the way from Ireland shared their awesome outdoor fort with us!

They have some great inspiration at Let the Children Play

Here's one from Peaceful Landscapes

A natural fort from Tree Inspired

Here's a hanging fort structure idea from ikatbag

Check out this amazing tent/fort in Norway from playscapes

Have a great weekend everyone! It's a long one for us!

Fort Friday!

Another week another Fort Friday! With kids at the end of their school year there should be lots of time for fort building and play. How about some inspiration?

The readers over at Little Homeschool Blessings had some night time fort fun recently

Does anyone see some Star Wars resemblence in this fort? from reddit

I'd love to explore this outdoor cabin/fort from pilze apfeli

I think we could make this while camping! from Shawnie Bawnie on Flickr

Forget the kids, I want to play in this backyard from HGTV Front Door

and for an indoor fort how about this gorgeous loft/fort space? from The Handmade Home

As always everyone loves seeing your inspiration as well so email me with your fort images if you would like them to be featured on Fort Friday.

Fort Friday

We're back with Fort Friday! I know many of you missed it last week!

If you're new - 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!

Don't forget if you participate in Fort Friday (or make a fort any day of the week) and want to share email me at info@allfortheboys.com 

Let's start out this week with YOUR inspiration!

Marco from Frauen und Kinder zuerst sent in this photo of this amazing "underground castle with many traps" Imagine all the surprises you could hide in there

Erika's boys each made their own forts (I may need to encourage mine to do this more). Apparently the forts were so good one even fell asleep.

An awesome backyard stick fort from The View Finder by tsdg!

Natalie's boys had fort building on the top of their Spring break to do list. I'd say they checked that one off pretty well!

Here's a quick up and quick down fort from Amazon

A big fort/treehouse at Balboa Park from Bornrich.com

A treehouse trampoline tent would become an oven here in Phoenix but would be super fun in the winter! from Amazon

A pretty cool backyard fort setup from dreadlockgirl

Have a great weekend!

Fort Friday!

It's that time of the week again! Fort time!

Here are some reader submissions this week - always love these.

Noah has a fun colorful fort to hang out in.

Here is Max's quick cozy fort complete with flashlight. Julia says it allowed her to get ready for work :)

Check out the awesome fort AND fort kits from Love Them Madly

REALLY love this from Time of the Aquarius

An easy "fort" idea from the NY times article I posted about earlier this week. Allison V. Smith for The New York Times

A sleepover fort by lhrnciar on Webshots

You'd feel like you were sleeping in a fort everynight if you had these beds. From Scandinavian Retreat

Have a great week everyone! Don't forget - if you want to submit your own fort, just send an email to info@allfortheboys.com

LESSONS IN THE ART OF PILLOW FORT CONSTRUCTION

Last week a reader, Tim, posted a link to this article written by Matt Ritchel for the New York Times. Lessons in the Art of Pillow Fort Construction. It is a great article if you have time to read through it and love forts as much as we do.  

Stuart Isett for The New York Times

My favorite quote "But maybe the experience isn’t about togetherness. Maybe it’s about letting go. Sure, I may have a few months, maybe years, to collaborate. I’ll show them things. I’ll initiate. But then I’ll have to let them have their home inside our home, apart from us." 

John Kuczala for The New York Times

Fort Friday

Hey everyone! It's once again Fort Friday! I love seeing your submissions so feel free to send any in to info@allfortheboys.com

We got a couple that I just loved this week.

Amanda sent in my favorite kind of fort - a lighted fort - with her two cuties inside.

And Jamie sent in this one of her two boys as well. I love that her son wanted to have 2 entrances for him and his brother so they could meet in the middle. I miss that age!

Here's a fort/tree house from Baumraum

And I thought this literal treehouse - the Kam Tin Tree House - was pretty cool (although probably not if it was my house in there) from Wikipedia

and I really like this big outdoor playground fort! found on Home & Garden Ideas

Have a great weekend!

Fort Friday!

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First I had to share this article that reader Nicola sent me (I shared on our Facebook page yesterday). The article is from Harvard's page and is about the importance of children and free play. About Einstein and forts - definitely check it out. I hope you are inspired :)

Projects with shipping pallets are all the rage right now and I bet these boys didn't even know they were trend setters ;) They made this completely awesome fort for themselves. Thanks Cecelia so much for sharing it with us!

Juliana sent in this cozy fort that breaks down and all fits back into a bin for storage/use later.

Tangi and her son made a room sized fort using pretty much every blanket in the house lol! I bet it's fun navigating inside that fort!

Clara's (from midnightinthekitchen.com) son had a pajama play date (how fun would that be with a breakfast bar for a snack?!) and they of course needed a fort!

I love this fort by Peat Wollaeger on booooooo.com

Here are some DIY Pup Tents from Lindsay and Drew

and here's a great treehouse from finetreehousebuilding.com

Have a great weekend and Happy Easter if you're celebrating!

Fort Friday

Happy Fort Friday! If you're new - 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!

Don't forget if you participate in Fort Friday (or make a fort any day of the week) and want to share email me at info@allfortheboys.com 

Stacey sent in this cute, simple fort enjoyed by her son AND cat (simple is good!)

Julie sent me this HUGE blanket for made by her college age kids bible study. There were tunnels and everything!

Heather and her son sent in their "usual" fort with a tunnel in the back. I love that kids don't get bored even if you use the same construction over and over. (we often do the same one as well)

When in Doubt, Add More Salt made an extra long fort using binder clips to hold the sheets together!

Emma from Rocking Rascals sent in this early morning fort built by her little rascals ;)

My boy built a makeshift fort while I was working. He said he made this one because it was easy to clean up haha!

Check out this cardboard fort/play structure from Super Colossal

And I'm loving the plans for this cardboard (yes cardboard) play structure at Behance

Have a great weekend!