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How to Rebuild Your Childhood Fort

© Stacy Hinkle

How many of you built forts when you was a child? Did you make them out of chairs and blankets, boxes, maybe even snow. When I was in the second or third grade, it had snowed this particular day. My brother, my sisters, the neighbor kids, and I went outside to play. The driveway was plowed and the snow was piled high. We spent hours digging tunnels in the snow piles. To most grown ups, they are just tunnels in the snow. To us, they was our town with our homes. Just remember building forts probably sent a charge of excitement though you, didn't it? You know what to get up and build a fort just like you did when you was a kid. If you have to put down the book, go get whatever you need to build your fort and build it. When you are done, pick this book back up and read it while laying in your fort. I dare you to!

Now that you are done building your fort and have rejoined me, how does it feel? Great doesn't it. It's been a long time I would imagine since any of us build a fort. Now if you have picked this book up, for some reason, you want to find your childhood again. There are several reasons anybody would want to find there childhood again. You could have kids, as I do. You could be a children's writers or maybe even an artist. Last, you could be like any other person, and just want to remember those memories. The number one best reason to recreate your childhood is to find pure happiness. The happiness children had while playing, using their imagination. It just might even help heal the wounds some of us carry around with us. In order to recreate and love your childhood everyday for the rest of your life there are some exercises that I want you to do. This book isn't here to explain why you should recreate your childhood. It's here to get you started.

The first thing I want you do to is get a big piece of paper. Not like regular computer paper or notebook paper, the really big sheet. I love to use the paper rolls that is used to print newspapers on. A few phone calls, you shouldn't find it to hard to come up with a few rolls. You could even use the large art paper you can buy at Wal-Mart. Then find some construction paper, scissors, and crayons. If you don't have any of this, put the book down and go to the store. Don't worry I am not going anywhere.

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