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Forts don’t need to be outside to be cool and entertaining. You can build indoor forts year round with some furniture, blankets, books and imagination. Design ideas in this issue will keep young builders creating in-house structures that delight and provide safe entertainment. Learn the differences between a compound fort with multiple hiding spaces, to a tunnel fort that invites curious crawlers. A cardboard box provides the classic structure while allowing ample creativity to cut out doors, windows and add decorations. Invite over some buddies to help you construct your special place, then solve the puzzles in this Kid Scoop page as part of a Club House activity. Inexpensive and creative entertainment … right in your own home!
In this issue young builders will:
- read expository texts about different kinds of forts
- calculate sums and differences to solve a cross number secret code puzzle
- visually discriminate hidden houses
- use the newspaper to create a “fort for sale” ad
- build long and silly sentences from short headlines
- write creatively with details about a dream house design
- use parts of speech to ad lib a nutty fort tale
6 page PDF
