I’ve been on a journey to embrace winter by finding as many ways to spend time outdoors as possible – all winter long. From skiing to creating cozy outdoor hangouts – there are a million ways to add ...

With summer camps filling up fast and screens taking center stage, many parents are rethinking how to keep kids engaged in ways that matter. They want something close to home, but rich in creativity ...

There's nothing kids love more than building a fort, but while a fort constructed out of carefully strung-up sheets and blankets will always be a classic, there's a new kind of fort in town: The ...

These times, they are fort-building times. These are hunker down, curl up, leave-me-the-eff-alone times. But maybe by now, 10(ish) weeks into this pandemic, you’ve run out of fresh ways to toss a ...

My friend texts a photo from her living room – a mound of yellow- and green-fringed blankets draped over a chair framed by a wall of couch pillows. “I need to go find a dark hole to climb into,” she ...

Kids love forts because they get to build their own world, where they make the rules and control the narrative. Creating these hideouts turns everyday objects like blankets, branches and bungee cords ...