We’re
back !
“Hooray”,
I hear you cry or perhaps there are a few groans from the back there? Whatever
your reaction we have returned from a mad few weeks of kiddie sickness and life’s
challenges getting in the way of my blogging which I have to say I’ve missed –
a lot !
So,
when I got wind of a fun challenge happening which involved building a Fort
made out of blankets, I jumped at the chance of creating some fun and carefree
time for myself and the girls.
Sunday
arrived, Daddy was off on a Wing Chun (Kung Fu to anyone who’s unsure) seminar
for the day, so the girls and I set about making our Fort. The previous week we’d
seen Granny and Grampy and the girls had been given a large cuddly blanket
each. Perfect material for our fort building and the first things placed over
our chairs, table and speaker stand to begin our structure.
I
knew we had a stack of other blankets somewhere, however it’s always when you
want and need them that you can’t find them ! I have to add that a few days after
our Fort building exercise, I found said blankets and was a tad miffed that
they’d probably been staring me in the face all along.
Anyway,
I digress. We therefore decided to raid Mummy’s scarf box instead to decorate
our Fort with colour. Belle took the bunting from her wall and hung it around
the front of our beautiful Fort which was really beginning to take shape. Belle
had woken that morning with lots of ideas which was great. I love how children’s
imaginations can really run wild when they are left to their own devices.
Belle
then remembered the flags we had been given when we watched the Torch
procession in town for the Olympics in 2012. Out they came from the dress up box and
were ceremoniously stuck onto our fort, giving it a very British and English feel
all at once.
We
surveyed our handy work and agreed that it did indeed look fabulous but needed
some added extras. In went a cooker and two seats. By this stage tummies
rumbled and lunchtime called. As you can imagine, this had to be served in
their newly built fort. Once finished and with full tummies and energy levels
renewed, the girls took to becoming a princess lion (yes, I know, makes no
sense to me either!) who scared the other princess in the Fort. Then a quick
change, and the grand finale involved our princess lion and her friendly Knight
guarding their newfound Fort from any intruders.
As
you can see from the last picture great fun was had by both the girls and the
fort had to stay up all day until Daddy came home. We couldn’t afford for Daddy
to miss out on seeing it in all its glory, our very grand and regal Fort.
So
what do you think? Have we passed in our ability to build a play fort? I think so
and can honestly say we had the best fun together. It took me back to how much
fun building dens of any kind is when you are small ................. and big
too !
If
you’d like to enter Britain’s Blanket Fort Competition with your kids, you don’t
need to have a blog, all you need to do is build your fort, take a picture and
then tweet it to @MarketFurniture using the hashtag #blanketfortcomp. You could be
in with the chance of winning £100 worth of Love2Shop vouchers which you can
spend in most high street stores. So what are you waiting for? Get building x
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This week we are also linking this post up to #PoCoLo
(Post Comment Love) one of our favourite Linkys with Vicky Welton.