The Fort

The kids have officially been out of school for one week now! Thus the reason why I have been busy and not finding the time to actually update the blog. Here it is 10:30 at night and I'm finally getting around to posting stuff...oh well....better late than never!

So -since the kids are home from school - we've been doing some fun activities during the day. I had the kids help make a list of fun things they wanted to do (play games, soccer, Wii, build a fort, fix a puzzle, bake, paint, do a craft, etc...). Then we wrote each item on a little piece of paper and put it in a container. Then each day they get to pick out of the container - and whatever it says - we are suppose to do. The other day - build a fort - was the item picked. So we took all the blankets and pillows we could find in the house and headed to our basement playroom. We used the ping-pong table and the train table and other chairs and objects to help build the fort. The kids had fun making it and each one even had his/her own room inside.

The kids in front of their fort!

And inside - Silas lounging in his chair. Shaylee under the ping-pong table. Her actual room was the "barn" that grandma VE made (not pictured).

Syd under her half of the ping-pong table. And Shane - his hideout was under the train table and with a roof connecting to the couch.

We took the fort down a few days later....cleaned up the playroom again....but then just today the kids had friends over and made another one....we will keep it up a few more days - then most likely take it down (or it will somehow get destroyed). They are having fun - and it keeps them creative!