She wants to make a huge fort using many many many different items at the store but we are snowed in what do we use?
2007-02-12 02:37:15 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Grade-Schooler
She wants to use that fancy stuff you find at the lumber yard and Wal-Mart and she won't let me use blankets and whatever we have at the house
2007-02-12 02:41:01 · update #1
tell her with snow outside its time to use her imagination.get the sheets boxes chairs and try to make different rooms with hall way to get in each one...unless you go out and make an ingloo.have fun and dont forget to take pics.,throw in some pillows and a radio...books,crayons,paper etc...
2007-02-12 02:47:16 · answer #1 · answered by wondering 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are plenty of ways to make a indoor fort at home! You can use kitchen chairs and put light weight blankets on top. The square sofa cushions can be used as a tunnel entrance. If you happen to have bunkbeds you can tuck sheets around the bottom bunk and make a fort out of that. Use your imagination and the ideas can be endless!
2007-02-12 10:42:40 · answer #2 · answered by Christina 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Use four chairs, a sheet, a broom, and a lamp. Just put the chairs into a square and drape the sheet over the top. (You might want to put books on the sheet corners to hold it down.) Prop the middle of the sheet up with the broom. Plug in the lamp and put it under the sheet and you have an instant fort! Good luck!
2007-02-12 10:47:34 · answer #3 · answered by AnswerJunkie 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hello...you're snowed in...go outside! I loved making snow forts when I was a kid! Get a couple of shoeboxes, fillem' w/snow,pack it down, dump over and fill again...makes instant snow bricks. built and igloo or just a wall...the temp. inside an igloo rises some, so it won't be as cold inside it! Also, when it's done, line the floor w/ a tarp and old blankets and invite some of her friends in for an eskimo story from a library book!
2007-02-12 10:50:26 · answer #4 · answered by stop n'stare airbrush artist 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You tell your daughter, we will use what we have and we will have a great time being creative together. Explain to her there is no need to "buy" things for a fort. Forts are made of items you find anywhere. Put your foot down and tell her whos boss.
2007-02-12 10:46:21 · answer #5 · answered by Momma K 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You cant make one then if you are snowed in and cant go buy that stuff. Tell her she will just have to wait.
I dont know what fancy stuff you find at a lumber store....except for lumber.
2007-02-12 11:06:33 · answer #6 · answered by KathyS 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
contact an appliance store and ask for a used appliance box. My brother and I loved to hide in the refridgerator boxes. my parents owned an appliance/tv store. my 6 year old loves to use blankets and chairs. sofa cushions can work well too. maybe find a little nook or cranny in the home that she could make her own?
2007-02-13 00:18:15 · answer #7 · answered by Krys M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
She can hang sheets from pieces of furniture. It's best to use a couch or an arm chair b/c you can secure the sheets by tucking them into the arm of the chair or couch. This may require that you rearrange a bit of furniture.
2007-02-12 10:41:45 · answer #8 · answered by Try Again 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, you could always tell her that these items are available for your use (whatever you have that could work), and if you don't want to use them, then don't make a fort. Those are your choices.
2007-02-12 10:51:08 · answer #9 · answered by suzieq_64093 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tell her she can have a chair and blanket fort or none at all.
2007-02-12 11:07:22 · answer #10 · answered by elaeblue 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋