#building forts

[tyrhinosaurus]

I missed a few days, but its okay. I'm being really social at the moment and its beginning to stress me out.

Day 8, your safe space

Day 9, favourite food

[cheryllclayton]

My son on top of the world lol

Please don’t reblog

[nciwch]

Meet the world’s leading expert on why kids build forts. | Health communications, Alzheimer's educator | Paula Spencer Scott

Creating secrets forts, dens, hideouts, and playhouses isn't just any random kind of play. It's a universal drive rooted in kids' healthy development.

Great read!!

[littles-meet]

Meet @avespace from Michigan! She enjoys building forts, sharing, and singing!

[linettefox]

Fort building season eeee. Welcome to Foxington Palace II. No I am not too old to build a house of sticks! It's fun being the witch in the backyard and it's a good napping spot.

It's bigger then the one I made last year. Here are the pics of the first one, RIP Foxington Palace I. Had to steal her pics from my own Instagram.

Anyways bye I'm gonna go read Princess of Souls and To Kill a Kingdom and see what animals I can spy on. Bye bye!

[divide-media-content-sales-r]

Keep Dacha: Educational Child's Play

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[sage-nilsen-blog]

Building Forts || James & Sage

~Flashback Friday, April 22, 2016

Sage took the elevator up to her apartment, after making plans with James to bring him the Christmas light in order to get the for lit up. The last time she had built a fort, she was probably ten, with her sisters. Maybe younger, her mother didn’t like them dirtying all the laundry for no reason.

Un-stringing the light from her wall, she place the Polaroids she had on them, on her dresser, she met James back in the lobby “Alright I’ve got the lights, and I brought some blankets just in case we ran low, I figure we aren’t as small as we were when making forts was the norm- anything else you can think of, that we need?” she asked with a smile .

@james-jordan