Back in April of 2007 I posted in my OLD BLOG about how after watching the movie, The Holiday Tent, I was inspired to make a tent for my own children. So many of you STILL send me emails asking how I made it, I can’t believe it! I never knew my copy-cat tent making would be so contagious to other moms. ; )
Here is my old post but this time, as best as I could remember, I talk about HOW I made it! I hope some of you parents out there get a chance to try this out at home, it was VERY special to my kids and every once in a while they still mention how much they loved it when I made this for them!
The Holiday “Tent”:
The Tent I Made For My Kids:
The tricky part to getting the tent to work is you have to put together two wooden squares. I don’t remember the dimensions anymore, but I created a small as you can see below then make a larger one so that the blankets and sheets would spread out leaving plenty of space for the kids to stand and play inside. Drilling holes into each side of the square I tied rope (as you can see in the photo) in order to connect the smaller top wooden square to the bottom wooden square. Now what you can see here is that the rope actually continues from the top small square through the top of the actual tent which I brought all four pieces of rope together and secured/tied it to a plant hook that was screwed into the ceiling. We then draped blankets and sheets over and used one chair to the left to keep our tent longer. We did safety pin the blankets together so that there weren’t any unwelcomed “doors” : )
We even made similar stars that the movie tent had hanging from inside. We cut out stars from card board paper, painted, glittered and decorated them. We safety pinned them to the top of the sheets and blankets while suspending them down using ribbons so they would hang.
We brought in a small lamp for light and, pillows and blankets to snuggle up with while we camped inside our home-made tent.
Miranda’s friend came over to get in on the phone. Our tent became quite the hang out spot for two weeks!!
My daughter misses having this fish tank. I can remember all the hard work it took to maintain this thing! We use to change the backgrounds to the tank and alternate between different fishes and plants, eventually we ended up with real plants and exotic fish, it was quite impressive and soothing to just watch the fish aimlessly around the tank.
Well there you have it. For all of those that send me emails STILL about this tent, here it is. I hope my ideas will build upon your own. Good luck in your tent making projects!
Darice
