Family Fort Night!

A fort built by one our patron families!
A few weeks ago, we host our first Family Fort Night! We borrowed liberally from bloggers like Marge, Erin, and Amy, so I want to thank everyone for sharing their program ideas. It was a big hit here too! It was a wonderful, simple program and reminded me that those are the best ones! We plan to do this again next year.

We started our program at 5:45pm, 45 minutes after we closed for the day. Another co-worker let attendees into the building and I greeted them in the Community Room with gift bags. Our gift bags included walking s'mores (Teddy Grahams, mini-marshmallows, and chocolate chips), a mini-flashlight, and a map of our town on the outside. The design was inspired by an Oriental Trading idea.

At about 6:00 pm, I read Creepy Carrots to the group as they finished off their snacks in our community room. Then we wandered over to the children's department where they had free reign to build forts using the stacks, tables, chairs, etc. It was really amazing to see what they came up with. We provided clothespins (traditional and metal) and masking tape, as well as 5-6 extra sheets for anyone who forgot to bring their own. We gave the families 5 minutes to pick out some books to read together in their forts before the official building began, figuring it would be easier to navigate the stacks without tents and forts in the way. Then everyone had about 30 minutes to build before the program ended at 7:00 pm.


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