Q&A for How to Make a Blanket Fort

Try making a fort out of cardboard boxes or couch cushions! Or, prop up your bed's comforter with a pole or other long object to make a tent!

A fan isn't required, but you can make your own hand-fan with a crinkled sheet of paper or a book.

Try using a battery powered lamp, or battery powered string lights so that you don't need to leave the fort.

Try using multiple blankets clipped together, or a larger bed sheet. Alternatively, arrange your furniture to act as walls for your fort, and use the blanket only as a ceiling.

You can use fewer chairs, but your fort may be smaller. You can also use the back of a couch or orther furniture to hold up your blankets.

Try spacing out the chairs, then moving the blanket(s) so they are barely over the edge of the chair. Secure the blankets with tape, hair ties, or rubber bands.

You could use binder clips, hair clasps (such as butterfly clips) or clamps from your parent's hardware tools (if they let you). You could also tuck the blankets into the sides of couches, under chair legs, etc.

It depends on what kind of materials you use and your experience in building such things. It can take anywhere from around 20 minutes to nearly an hour, depending on the size, complexity, the builder's skill, and how many times you knock it over.

Yes, provided your parents agree and have checked that it is safe to stay inside all night. Have them check its sturdiness. You'll need a sleeping bag or more blankets to sleep under, and a pillow.

You sure can! It will be simple and small but it's cozy and cute, ideal just for one person and a teddy bear.

Take a bag or a beanie into the kitchen. Drop the snack into the bag or beanie when nobody is around, then carry the snack back to the fort or your room. Any item that it seems normal to be carrying around can be used for this. Be sure to clean up all evidence of the snack after you've enjoyed it, to prevent anyone finding it or getting annoyed about crumbs, etc.

A blanket or a sheet is usual. A quilt or padded duvet can be a good, soft choice. If you want it to be really cozy, a pile of blankets and a quilt would be soft and comfortable. If it's really hot, just use a sheet or some cotton cloth. For a more exotic look, throw some large head scarves or pashminas across the ground.

Yes! You can use boxes, dressers (if they are short and easily movable), small tables, couches, countertops, stepladders, stools, large suitcases standing upright, cushions, or other surfaces sturdy enough to support the blankets/sheets. Use your imagination! The most fun part of creating a blanket fort is inventing your own unique arrangement.

Yes, but make sure there is nothing that can hurt it or fall on it. Also, make sure that it doesn't go near a chair or a pole that holds the fort together as the cat's claws might pull the fort down.

Yes, but you might knock down your fort if too many people are moving in it. Be careful. Also, you might think the fort is a bit crowded, and you will find yourself close to other people, so be sure they are people to whom you are comfortable being close.

Yes, but using different sizes will mean the roof of your blanket fort will be sloped.

Drape blankets from a bunkbed or other tall furniture. Stack pillows and sofa cushions. There are so many possibilities. Be creative!

You just get a pillow and hang a blanket on top like a tent to make smaller fort that doesn't require all those blankets. You can also use clothes, sheets, towels, etc. as substitutions for blankets.

It depends on how big it is, but generally 1-4 people can fit.

You can use anything that's long and sturdy. A broomstick, a pole from an exercise set-up, a 2x4 wooden plank, large sticks from the yard, a bamboo garden stake, etc., will all stand in as a suitable pole.

If you have long bed poles, drape a cover over and crawl inside. If you have short ones, wrap pro-wrap over the small poles and add hockey sticks or poles to lengthen the the bed poles, then drape a cover over the top. Or, use the bed on one side and drape to the floor and get into the fort on the floor, next to the bed. For bunk beds, just drape sheets and blankets over the bottom bunk, tucking the draped blankets underneath the top bunk's mattress.

You can if they are big enough. If they are small, they could close and make the top fall.

You have to improvise and adapt, such as using boxes or bins stacked on top of each other in place of chairs.

If you mean the space under your bed, then yes as long as it is big enough for you to easily hide under.

If you get bored, bring in games or electronics. Or, even friends. They'll keep you busy. These will keep you from getting bored.

Try to tie the edges of the blankets to the bedposts, or shut the corners of the blankets in drawers so they'll stay there.

It won't work well. The fort will collapse on top of you while you are inside it whenever you move because the tape is not strong enough to work. Don't use scotch tape.

Yes, of course! Being in high school doesn't mean you can't make awesome blanket forts.

It depends on what kind of blanket fort you make, but they are generally not easy to move.

It is extremely unlikely that someone could die in a collapsed blanket fort. You'll be fine.