Thursday 12 December 2013

Britain’s Best Blanket Fort Competition

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.


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12 comments:

  1. What a nice idea! It's wonderful how children are happiest playing with the simple things, because then they use their creativity and imagination more. Good luck with the competition! #PoCoLo

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    1. We had such a fun time Tarana particularly as we've had lots of weeks of illness recently. And you're right, the simple things are always to best :-) Thanks for stopping by x

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  2. I think you did brilliantly. Well done. Hope you win the competition!
    It looks like the girls had so much fun, you actually made me think of building one with my boys :)
    #PoCoLo

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    1. Hello Lovely Orli xx I think I had as much fun as the girls. You forget how much fun being small is. There are some fab pics on Twitter too. I think you should get building with your boys and enter the comp xx

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  3. What a beautiful fort! It really deserves to win. If not, you'll have to set Princess Lion on the judges....:-)

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    1. Aww thanks Nell. We agree although we're biased :) Perhaps we'll get Princess Lion in training to scare the judges just in case though !

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  4. I love that a simple den made out of blankets and chairs can prove to be the most fun ever! Looks great :)

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    1. Hi Suzanne - I so agree :) I remember dens and hideouts as a kid and thoroughly enjoying being somewhere where the adults couldn't be. It's a nice change from DS's, TV and Moshi Monster sites !

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  5. This is an absolutely wonderful fort - I love it! I remember building these as a kid and now Grace does in the lounge all the time. I love the added extras. Good luck with the competition. Thank you for linking to PoCoLo lovely x

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    1. Awww thanks Vicky. It was very cosy in there and the girls could tunnel through to the other room too. That was Belle's restaurant for a while ! There are some fab entries so we have stiff competition :) xx

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  6. Ah, great post. Fort building is big in our house so I'll be entering that competition too. Thanks for the heads up. Right, best dig out the blankets... #pocolo

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    1. Apologies for the late response xx Hoping you have entered the competition. Will have to pop across to Twitter to see how you got on :-) x

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