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Read that a bedsheet fort stays up longer than a store bought tent, and my kid proved it in the living room
I saw this thing on a camping site that said a simple bedsheet draped over two chairs holds its shape for hours, while those pop up tents kids get for Christmas sag by lunch. So we tested it in the living room in Tulsa with a queen sheet and two dining chairs, and that thing stayed up for 3 days straight, even with the dog running through it. What got me is that my own forts as a kid were the same deal, just couch cushions and whatever blanket was closest, and they always felt sturdier than the plastic play tents my cousins had. Now I'm wondering if clothespins on the sheet corners are cheating or if that's just smart engineering. Anybody else notice the homemade ones outlast the bought ones?
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kellys782d ago
My neighbor did the same test last summer with her two boys and it was kind of wild how it played out. She used one of those cheap fitted sheets that never stays on the mattress and clipped it to the backs of two kitchen chairs with binder clips. That thing did not move for almost a week, and they even had a birthday party in the middle of it with like eight kids crawling in and out. The pop up tent her sister bought them lasted one afternoon before the poles started bending weird and it just kind of slumped over like a sad balloon. Clothespins are not cheating at all, that is just you being smart about tension, which is the whole reason a sheet works better in the first place. The store bought ones cut corners on the frame so they can fold up small, and that is exactly why they give out so fast. Homemade stuff wins because you can fix it and tighten it whenever it starts to droop, and a kid can actually help build it, which matters more than the fort itself honestly.
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