Postwar suburban construction left neighborhoods full of scrap lumber that became the raw material for a generation of backyard builders. Building without blueprints forced kids to solve real ...

Grab your friends and build the best Fort! But remember: kids you don’t play with just might wander to somebody else’s yard. Fort is a deck-building game for 2 to 4 players, ages 10 and up, and takes ...

In early April, as COVID-19 tightened its grip and schools and businesses shut down, I started noticing a curious trend around my home in Durango, Colorado: forts. Lean-tos, rock structures, and other ...

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 ...

Most children spend countless hours mastering the art of fort-building. And while moats made from pillows, turrets from shoe boxes, and walls from sheets are impressive feats of engineering for ...