this looks like my kind of place!
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i have such fond memories of childhood forts-
blanket forts
pillow forts
under the table forts
box forts
tree forts
garage forts
lower bunkbed forts
underground cave forts
behind the couch forts
secret forts
forts with passwords
anything/anywhere/anytime
we could find to makeover into a fort,
we did.
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are you ‘pro-fort?’
is yes, what kind of forts did you enjoy?
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“forte is french for fort.”
*buddy wakefield,
*american poet, three-time world champion spoken word artist, and the most toured performance poet in history
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I distantly remember making forts with pillows and bedsheets. But very vividly recall the ones my kids made. And my granddaughter makes them in our living room every day, using all the cushions in the house.
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how wonderful
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❤️🩷❤️
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I love that
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🤩😍🥰
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We had snowforts on the Canadian prairies.
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snow forts! how could I forget? yes!
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Just imagine if you had typed the letter “a” instead of the letter “o”.
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))
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such wonderful memories, Beth; what a rich, fortified childhood you had :)
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it was one of the things we just loved to do!
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we did lots of fun things when we were kids and we may well have had a fort ; we did play lots of Cowboys and Indians : it was the era of the big Westerns: John Wayne & co :)
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Right!
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I made a huge maze/fort with blankets and chairs that I remember fondly to this day. I was 7
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That sounds amazing!)
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I once made a fort from old boxes, and blankets spread over chairs. Hours of fun! :)
Best wishes, Pete.
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Yes,how great!
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My little fort was more like a ‘castle’ … I’d stack chairs around me and cover them with blankets … and nobody could reach my teddy (Koala)
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That’s great!
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I was my teddy’s (Koala) great protector …
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important you had a fortress around your castle
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Your poem inspires memories and smiles. Our forts were made of blankets and pillows, and they were magical :)
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wonderful!
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love it
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thanks!
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The craziest fort my childhood neighborhood friends and I concocted was digging a deep hole and placing plywood for an underground fort in the woods, Beth. Then it began to rain hard …
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Yes!
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Ahh love it! 😍🌈🌲
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❤️
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Love this, Beth! Our son and daughter used to make blanket forts all the time, and my hubby also built a tree fort for them in the backyard. They loved the forts, and their imaginations entertained for hours. xo
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Wonderful!
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I’m so pro-fort. Oh, I wish I had more time to lounge in a reading fort and tune out the world.
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Yes, we as adults, may need forts even more
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On inside days, I’d drag chairs together and arrange them into what I called a jet cockpit. Great fun. My favorite forts were built up in the woods out of whatever came to hand.
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Fantastic
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Brilliant!
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Love this little place
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Understandably so, it is cosy and well lit!
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Noice!
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I’m off in search of a very big box!
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don’t forget the snacks!
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Yes to forts. All. Kids love them.
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yes!
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I would lay in this box & I’m all grown up.
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right, I agree
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I LOVED forts!!! I may need to build one…
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yes, don’t delay!
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The card table was a great start (does anyone have card tables anymore?). And my attempt to dig to China in the backyard ended up being a fort instead. Also we made leaf forts (not very substantial, but fun to crash through when you came speeding down the driveway in a wagon). Good times! Great memories. Thanks!
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yes, to digging to china turning into a hole fort and leaf forts were very short lived but fun. I haven’t seen a card table in years, but they made great bones for a fort.
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Fantastic, boxes are so loved by children, and let’s their imagination loose. My children had always boxes and every day they were something else.
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isn’t that great?
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I also loved forts. Big part of childhood. Made them everywhere. Think they are fabulous and this one, in the box is so sweet.
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each one was unique and very personal
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Absolutely and they were always different if you made them with someone else.
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This is a delightful idea. Makes me wish my son was six again. Thank you dear Beth.
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Still time !
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Yeah 😊
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I made a fort in a storage closet growing up – and slept there for a year! Great memories!
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Wow!
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Forts are great. Blankets or refrigerator boxes.
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yes, to both!
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Growing up in Michigan, it was forest forts in the summer and snow forts in the winter! ♥️
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yes, and I can’t believe I forgot to list snow forts!
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I am firmly in the camp of Team Fort. While I haven’t built one in awhile, I have great memories of both indoor and outdoor fort locations.
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you never forget them –
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Bunkbed forts & cut prairie grass forts with garbage can lids.
In memory, the grass forts were neck high, with an upright garbage can lid.
I saw a pic several years ago, a bunch of kids in 1′ high circle of grass & a garbage can lid lying flat on the ground.
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ah!
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Give a child a box to play with, and they’re almost always happy.
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absolutely!
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Under the dining room table with a long tablecloth to hide me, I’d eavesdrop my mother and Miss Russ gossip about men whose names I didn’t recognize.
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such a memory!
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A dream for any child!!
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I think so too
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I loved my forts! I made some killer ones up in a tree and grass hut ones. Damn those are good memories!
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nice! a grass hut fort!
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Pro Fort. Isn’t everyone!? Under the dining room table. Under the piano.
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all good!
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Oh I am absolutely PRO-fort! I never had one with built-in lights like that, though. I am a tad jealous!
As for the quote… too funny :)
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