Fort Week Part 1: Cardboard!

Cardboard is awesome. It's the perfect material for your imagination. Before you recycle your latest collection of boxes hand them over to your kids or help them create something of their own!

Ikat bag has a post on several different things they've made from cardboard

Not quite a fort but a great place to play from 45wall Design

Love this 2 story clubhouse from bennelson on Instructables

A simple banana box fort from Cardboard Collective

Love Fort Rex from Kat This Kat That

An epic fort with multiple entrances from Supriseaholic

So they can play in the dryer (which my boys always wanted to do) from Estefi Machado

Do you save your cardboard for the kids to play with?

Fort Friday!

Happy Fort Friday!

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!

An inventive Moby Wrap fort from the little guy at The Wheeler Weekly - I want one!

This little story about reading in a fort from Milk Toof is too cute - read the story HERE

Love this cozy fort from Seven Lovely Things

Love this backyard fort my friends from A Place For Us posted on their Instagram yesterday. The cones really add the finishing touch don't you think?

Someday I'll have Pink Sugar Photography photograph us - until then I'll enjoy their daily posts on Adventures in Pinksugarland

Fort Friday! Pirate Edition

Happy Fort Friday!

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've posted this before but I think this pirate ship bed deserves another mention don't you? from My Modern Met

Made by Marzipan turned a table into a pirate ship fort

LOVE this ship from a party on Catch My Party

A homemade pirate ship from Create with Your Hands

Love the balloon water on Captain McGroovy's Pirate Ship

Love the sails on this one by Ikat Bag

Fort Friday!

Happy Fort Friday!

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!

Love Chickadeez Photography and Maddie from @thiswildidea on Instagram!

An under the stairs imagination wonderland from Joy 2 Journey

A play tent from Not Just a Housewife

A simple treehouse at Apartment Therapy

Have a great weekend!

Fort Friday!

Happy Fort Friday - the last one of March! 

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!

This boat/play house is too cute - from HomeAid Orange County on Flickr

A colorful blanket fort from Orvis

Forts can be so simple! from Amanda Oaks on Flickr

A side of the road blanket fort from Daniel Coleman

Cardboard makes a great fort too - never just toss out a box! from Home with Lindsay

You have to check out all the details in this cardboard playhouse from Rust & Sunshine

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!

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!

Love these thickets by Cheeriup shared on the Martha Stewart Living blog

Love the fort behind the scenes sneaks from The Land of Nod's Instagram @thelandofnod

We shared a mega fort in the works on our Instagram @allfortheboys yesterday (and a sneak at a giveaway for fort week!)

Love this felt playhouse shown in a room on From Scandinavia with Love

Love how open this design is from Hunting & De Hoop

Fort Friday

Happy Fort Friday! Here on All for the Boys Fridays are for celebrating with some awesome fort inspiration from around the web.

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 but I'm still not able to pull it up again later. So if you don't see yours here, email it to me!

First up is the dynamic duo from The Natural Mom who have been enjoying bedtime forts lately! Isn't it more fun to fall asleep when you're having fun?!

Love the simple outdoor fort the little man from Eclectic Momsense was enjoying last week!

I love this gorgeous modern cardboard fort from Box Fort Builders on Etsy

Or this tribal teepee from Cat and Quail also on Etsy

I'm not sure where this photo was taken but how cool is this playhouse? from Jennie Joon on Flickr

A beautiful DIY playhouse from Scandinavian Deko

Fan Fort

I saw a similar idea last summer using plastic sheeting. My problem with that is you'd die in there in 10 minutes in the desert in the summer (oven anyone?!) so I've been wanting to try it with something a little more breathable.

 We don't have a small box fan just a tall skinny one. Instead of waiting for the perfect materials I decided to make it work with what we have. After all you all are going to be working with whatever you have at your house which isn't all the same!

I used a duvet cover since it's already secured on 3 sides but if you don't have one just secure 2 flat sheets together (you can duct tape or sew the ends together) I used duct tape to secure the open end around a fan and left an opening for the boys. You'll need to have a way to secure the opening once they're in. Binder clips, clamps, or clothespins are great for this - especially if they can do it from the inside!

That's it! A cool, breathable fan fort! The boys loved it right away.

Then this happened. And they loved it even more.

There is a dog and a kid in there somewhere.

Next week is Spring Break - wish me luck! ;)