The Best Fort Ever

I was babysitting a 5 year old and a 7 year old. It was rainy and cloudy out and they were stir crazy.
I piled them in the car and drove to the hardware store with a plan: Fort building supplies.
This could also make a pretty great birthday gift.
It's random but if you packaged it right, it'd be a hit.

The Best Fort Ever 

Ages: 3 years- well, let's be real, even adults think forts are cool.

Supplies:
4-6 medium size dowels (strong enough to hold up a large sheet, thin enough for a clothespin to clip on to)
Painters tape (it won't strip your furniture)
Clothes pins
A large sheet or tapestry
Clothesline string or rope
Chairs

Benefits: rainy day project, construction, design, imaginative play

Activity: 

• Use kitchen chairs as your posts. 
• Tape dowels to the kitchen chairs with painters tape (the tape is strong enough to hold the dowels but won't strip the paint or varnish off the chairs. (You can also tape the dowels together to make them longer- if 2.5 to 3 inches of the dowels overlap it should hold)
• It helps to have a dowel going across the middle of the fort too to hold the ceiling up.
• If you run out of dowels, you can use rope or string between the chairs. 
• Cover the structure with a large sheet or tapestry. 
• Clothespin the sheet to the dowels. 
• Fill it with pillows, blankets, flashlights, books, etc.