The creative process starts with a little help from Fort Magic’s Ship Fort Design kit that contains everything you and your child need to sail the ocean blue in a vessel fit for a pirate. There are connector pieces and tubes that come together to create a magical boat that is ready to set sail on a great …show more content…
Watch your child cast the pole out to sea, struggle to reel in the big catch and squeal in frustration at the ones who got away. The boat fort serves as the vessel to help capture every fish in the sea. The imagination fueling that adventure far exceeds anything that you could come up with by yourself.
Benefits of a Fort
Fort building provides your child with benefits that video games and other technology devices just can’t provide. At first glance you may only see a new way to spend an afternoon indoors. However, there is far more taking place behind the scenes. Your child is building cognitive development skills such as problem solving, planning and imagination by trying to figure out how the fort will come together.
A level of maturity, independence and confidence begins to form as well when the children take charge of the building process and add elements in along the way that fuels their imagination.
As a parent, you can foster all of these skills by introducing the art of fort building as early as