Giggle Gear Super Fort

Build Your Own Play Structure

© Cathy Spalding

Giggle Gear Super Fort, Cranium

After years of dragging out chairs and blankets and couch cushions, kids can finally build their own indoor forts without frustrating their parents.

Tired of all those blankets draped over chairs in your living room when your kids attempt to make the perfect play house? Here is your answer. Cranium has introduced the Giggle Gear Super Fort. This kit comes with everything your child will need to make their own indoor play structure. This includes rigid "noodles" to make the corners of the fort, flexible noodles to give some shape to the fort, nylon sheets of a variety of sizes and bright colours for walls, roofs, and floors, and an assortment of connectors, clips, and bases to hold it all together.

The Super Fort comes with step by step instructions to make the following :

Besides those designs, it is adaptable enough for kids to use their imaginations to come up with their own play spaces.

Besides the fact that the Super Fort promotes creative play and is visually pleasing, it has a couple more pluses. The connectors are all easy enough that a child can put the fort together on their own without help from an adult (although many adults may find they want to get involved). Also, it comes with a storage bag so all the pieces can easily be put away in one spot. The bag even has velcro closures so the kids have no excuse for not tidying up themselves.

You don't need a huge floor space for these forts. Most structures your kids will build will take up a space of no more than 5ft by 5ft. Just be sure that your room can accommodate this without pushing the fort up against a heat source.


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Comments
Feb 2, 2007 6:12 AM
Georgene A. Bramlage :
Hi!

What are the appropriate child ages for the Giggle Gear Super Fort?

You mention the connectors, etc. easy for a child to use...this is why my question.

G.
Feb 2, 2007 6:18 AM
Georgene A. Bramlage :
Here I am again :)

The Giggle Gear Super Fort may be tidy and take up less space than rearranging the living room furniture...but these questions occured to me:

1-Easy for Mom, Dad and other caregivers, but what about children learning to choose creative elements from their environment?

2-Everything necessary is "in the bag," and "easily put together." How do children learn to overcome frustration in their daily acivities if everything comes neatly packaged?

G.
Mar 11, 2007 10:25 AM
Cathy Spalding :
The manufacturer recommends 3 and up. My daughter was 6 when she first got this, and that was an ideal age for the Super Fort. My 10 year old also likes to play with it, but soon she'll be too tall!

Cathy
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