Building forts in the living room is what childhood memories are made of. Back in the day, we would take a sheet or two, ...

Do the words “pillow fort” conjure parental fear of messy blankets, all the couch cushions ruined, and all your children sleeping out of their beds for the foreseeable? Well, that last one might be ...

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When Whitney Jenkins' oldest child, Parker, was just 2, the father and son created their first fort. While the structure may have been little more than blankets and pillows, the sign outside of it ...

My friend texts a photo from her living room – a mound of yellow- and green-fringed blankets draped over a chair framed by a wall of couch pillows. “I need to go find a dark hole to climb into,” she ...

Clark County builds giant blanket fort for foster kids ...

In early April, as COVID-19 tightened its grip and schools and businesses shut down, I started noticing a curious trend around my home in Durango, Colorado: forts. Lean-tos, rock structures, and other ...

Harkening back to an era when it was the norm for children to be sent outside to play with other kids in their neighborhood, an Eagan family has created a backyard snow fort that serves as a magnet ...