Making a Box Fort

Not many people have ever said that making a box fort could save your life.  Most would imagine it was an absurd thing to say and completely untrue.  I would have to beg to differ.  Traveling to the more liberal states I have found that living in a box is more normal than one would imagine.  Literally thousands of people are living on the streets in LA in cardboard boxes. So having the skill to build one is important and could even save your life if you are found homeless for a period of time.  So where do you begin on the journey of building a box.

I first started my interest with making cardboard boxes into forts or home when I was young.  I was invited by a friend to visit a local church who had created a box maze through their entire church.  It was an incredible creation.  They had taken thousands of boxes and brought them together to create a masterpiece of creation.  The scale must have taken them a week or more to accomplish.  There were boxes taped together in a mired of ways. They were stacked to create jumps and ladders and even small castles.  There were complete black spots where obstacles had been created to manoeuvre around.  There were dangling things mean to believe you were in a spiders web.  It was truly a masterpiece and incredible. That was where my inspiration came from and where is stems from today.

So do you need to go out and start on a scale of that level? Not at all. Instead, start small and work your way up.  If you have kids then you can start to build for them.  Ask them what they like.  Do they like, tree forts, or castles or Barbie play houses. Take the time to understand their passions and then make it come to life.

Start by visiting your local grocery stores and see about picking up some boxes for free. Then go and get lots and lots of tape.  Not just your regular scotch tape. Go and get packing tape.  They are some different kidneys and the industrial tape that you have to wet first to get the adhesive malleable I would avoid. This tape is hard to use and leaves you very sticky. If your kids are helping it will simply create a nightmare to clean up.  So grab normal tape, and start putting them together with your kinds until you have created a passion of theirs. Enjoy!