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How To Build a Fort in Your Room

December 30, 2008
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With just a few things from around the house, you can turn your bedroom into a fortress!

You Will Need

Parental permission
2 to 4 blankets or sheets
3 couch cushions or pillows
Some heavy objects
Imagination
Boxes or squares of cardboard (optional)
Playmates (optional)
Decorations (optional)
Extra pillows (optional)
Snacks (optional)
Flashlight (optional)
Games (optional)

How To Build a Fort in Your Room: Pick your spot

Step 1: Pick your spot

Choose an area on the floor between two pieces of furniture (like your bed and dresser, or desk and chair), clear the space, and put down a blanket for the floor.

How To Build a Fort in Your Room: Construct the walls

Step 2: Construct the walls

Use your furniture to prop up the couch cushions in a way that forms three walls. Use large boxes or squares of cardboard to add extra rooms.

Try not to block the doorway.

How To Build a Fort in Your Room: Make the roof

Step 3: Make the roof

Drape a blanket or sheet over the fort’s walls. You also can tie the corners of sheets to pieces of furniture.

How To Build a Fort in Your Room: Strengthen your structure

Step 4: Strengthen your structure

Use some heavy objects—like hardcover books—to pin down each corner of the blanket. If your fort is big enough, put some pillows inside to make it comfy.

How To Build a Fort in Your Room: Enter your fort

Step 5: Enter your fort

Grab a playmate, snacks, flashlight, games, or whatever else you’d like, and prepare to defend your fort!

Don’t put the heavy objects too close to the inside of the fort—you don’t want them to fall in on you when you enter!

How To Build a Fort in Your Room: Ask for permission

Step 6: Ask for permission

Get the okay from your mom or dad to use couch cushions, blankets, and pillows to build a fort in your room.

Francis Scott Key was inspired to write “The Star-Spangled Banner” after witnessing the attack on Baltimore’s Fort McHenry.

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i make tents in room very hard to do but this is better to make!!

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