Disclaimer: During my time blogging, I have had a lot of chances to review products. Fort Magic may be my favorite thing that my family has been able to try out. Seriously – this thing is so awesome that I couldn’t even write a regular old boring disclaimer that I got this free to review. Fort Magic is awesome (and we have one to give away!).
When my engineering-minded nine year old daughter first saw the Fort Magic box as it arrived at our house, she gasped. “Can we open this now?”
I told her, “I’m not sure how well I will do with building it, you know that’s just not my thing. Let’s wait for Dad to get home.” I’m inept when it comes to all things building, but I smartly married a guy that would become an engineer one day. Score one for me.
“I don’t need to wait for Dad,” she said with confidence, “I think I can do it on my own.”
And, that’s exactly what she started doing. She got one of her brothers to act as an assistant, and she began to build one of the larger structures in the Fort Magic guide book.
But, wait. Before I show you what she ultimately ended up building, let me explain what Fort Magic is:
The best description about Fort Magic comes from the makers of the product:
Fort Magic is an innovative fort building and construction toy that enables children to build 3D, kid-created, “life-size” worlds for inventive play! Imagine the hours of excitement at playtime, play-dates, sleepovers and family-time as children build “forts” shaped like pirate ships, castles, playhouses, submarines, airplanes, teepees, tunnels, and so much more…all from just ONE Fort Magic kit! Fantasy becomes reality with Fort Magic through the power of a child’s own creative hands! Easy to build, easy to clean up! Fort Magic ignites children’s imaginations for hours of creative play!
Here are just a few of the things that you can build:
Here’s where you can get your own Fort Magic. (Or, you might win one here! Check the end of the post.)
Here’s one of the cool things though, which usually was what happened in my house: You don’t have to follow directions! Not only does Fort Magic come with an instruction manual with over 20 design options, but then you can make modifications to designs as well. My resident engineering nerds (my husband and daughter) could never stop with the suggested designs. Each time they had to make tweaks here and there to make it their own.
So, what did the engineering masterminds build anyway?
Oh yes, that’s right. I promised that after I told you about Fort Magic, I would share the first structure that Molly built with it. She was still building when my husband got home, so they worked together from that point on.
Their awesome fort:
And, in case you can’t really get the scale of the size of this thing, I peeked in to take a picture:
Yep, that’s my husband, 12 year old son, and 9 year old daughter all comfortably hanging out inside. My son, coming in at 5’1″ could even stand up!
You might notice that our fort looked a little, well, let’s say colorful. That’s because Fort Magic doesn’t come with with covers for the structures. They plan to start selling them at some point, but for now, you will just use the clips that are included to secure sheets or other fabric to the frame. I was initially intimidated by that idea, but then I was surprised and pleased at how easy that was.
After several days of enjoying that fort, my engineering loving family members decided to put together another structure, this time a little house, in my daughter’s room:
Like I said earlier, I think this is my favorite product I have ever reviewed. I love it! I’m excited to have one to give away to one lucky reader. If you don’t win, however, you can always go pick up your own. Not sure about it? You can check out what other people are saying about Fort Magic as well.
Now here’s your chance to win a Fort Magic
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Disclaimer: My family received a Fort Magic kit for free to try out and then keep. I was also compensated for my time in reviewing the product and writing this post. However, I genuinely love this kit and my kids can’t stop talking about it. All opinions really are my own. Thanks!
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Angie, a domestically challenged nerd, can be found writing at Many Little Blessings about life between loads of laundry. She is also the founder of The Homeschool Classroom, Catholic Printables Online, and Catholic Mothers Online. Angie also listens to music every chance she gets, writes eBooks, loves Pinterest, begrudgingly uses Google+, and occasionally sleeps. |
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This thing looks totally awesome. And my engineering nerd daughter would love it!
As an engineer, who couldn’t make a fort strong enough to stand up to the attacks of my older brother, I gave up one too many girl scout cookies to negotiate a truce! If only this product was available when I was a kid, I could have sold 800 cups of lemonade for 25 cents a piece and forever foiled the plans of my domineering brother! Maybe I’ll get one for my kids!
Love! Would so love to win this for my two boys ages 4 and 7!
Oh my goodness! My engineer geared son could spend most of the day everyday building with this! I think my non-engineer kids would love it too. What an amazing product!
This looks like so much fun. I think my kids would love it.
would be great fun with the grandkids visit
This looks like a lot of fun (indoor or outdoors) !
This would be great for my kids because they are always trying to build forts with my blankets and quilts! Now we could have a real structure!
My kids would love to make these forts, and they look very durable.
This looks so fun! My kids are always turning the couch, chairs….anything into ships and houses. Fort Magic would be so awesome to have!
My kids are ALWAYS trying to build forts from blankets, furniture, books and whatever else they think might work. It’d be nice to have pieces that WOULD work :).
This looks awesome. No more taking apart my couch to build with the cushions!
This Fort Magic is EXACTLY what I’ve been looking for for two years now. My son wants to build a covered wagon in his bedroom which is a very cute 1950s styled Cowpokes/Cowboys. We have debated how to do such a massive project with safe materials and sadly we do NOT have an engineer in the family so it hasn’t happened… yet! I just called my husband and told him about this wonderful product! I would love to win it, but if not… it’s on our wish list! 😉
I think my 9 year-old daughter and engineer husband would love it, too. Looks like a lot of fun.
Looks awesomely fun!
My nine year old daughter would LOVE this! So would I 😉
My family would absolutely love this! What an awesome idea!
My 10 yr ds and 7 dd would love to have this.
Oh my goodness! The best rainy day activity ever!!! This is definitely going on my wish list…. I’ll get to take it off if I win 🙂
My kids love building forts and would love Fort Magic!
Homeschooling two boys 4/7 and can’t imagine how amazing this would be! Could even share with other coop families!! So cool!
Wow! This looks amazing! I would LOVE to watch my girls work together to create any one of these designs. What an incredible find! Thank you SO much for sharing!!
My son would love this!
My two little ones would looooove this. Thanks for the chance to win it.
My girls love to build forts. I think this would become their new favorite toy!
This is so creative! I love it! My kids are 4, 8, and 9 and they LOVE to build forts!
My kids loooove building forts! This kit looks amazing!
I love that this is a building toy on a large enough scale that it can be used to play in! Creativity, engineering, imagination – it looks just awesome!
I spent the better part of 2 hours this past weekend searching for enough spare PVC and fittings so my boys could build their own fort. They would LOVE this kit!
My boys would absolutely love this!
I want to win this so I can have my blankets and dining room chairs and couch cushions back! My girls would have so much fun with this (okay, maybe I would too!)
This would be awesome for my 2 year old and my 11 year old! They would love this!
I have an 8 year old who adores building things. He would love this.
This is fantastic! The building options make it better than a tent. My sons would live this!
I could see my son and daughter having many hours of fun with this!
I would love to win this for my niece and nephew, they would have so much fun!
This is a great idea! We used to always move around heavy furniture to make forts…this is much safer! And great for little imaginations!
My daughter loves to build forts but she moves the furniture all around and then we don’t have anywhere to sit! Also this would be something she can do by herself, which she would love.
Wow!! My kids would go crazy over this!
This would be perfect for my kids!
This would be such a great activity to have at home, so many possibilities and lots of room for the imagination to roam!
I can see it being used over and over again and having a lot of family fun with it! 🙂
My daughter loves pretend play and I think she would play with this every day!
I would love to win a Fort Magic kit because it would be an awesome surprise for my daughter. Thank you for the chance to win!
I would love to win this for my daughter because it would spark so much creativity. We would have tons of fun with this. Looks like it is quality and would last.
Play is really the work of Childhood ~ would love to win this for my grand daughter ~ such imaginations ♥
I would absolutely love to win a Fort Magic because it is truly one of the best products I have seen for kids! I remember having so much fun building forts myself as a kid and that is definitely something to pass along AND enjoy once again as an adult 🙂 Thanks for the giveaway!!
This would entertain my kids for hours!
My boys would LOVE this! How fun!
My little guy would have a blast putting all of these designs together with his daddy!
How fun! My kids received a different brand kit for Christmas. It’s a bit rickety and somewhat hard to put together, but it’s fun. Not as big as the kit you showed. I like that when it’s done, you can put it back in a relatively small box. Heh.
This would be a great learning tool for our school students
My boys 5 & 2 would love this they’re always building forts around the house & going on adventures in them
I would love to be able to play with my grand children. Fort Magic makes children use their minds, they have to work together, I liked how they learn from building. I also love how we can spend quality time with each other. Thank you for the chance. I love Fort Magic.
My kids would enjoy doing this with their dad.
This looks like so much fun!! My boys, ages 6 and 8, would love this, as they are always building forts, tents and such.
OMG, SO many reasons why I would LOVE to win this!!! My hubby is an engineer and so is my younger son. My older son would LOVE the details as well. This looks AMAZING!
I love this idea so much! I might have to buy one of my own. My husband (also an engineer) loves forts. 🙂
This would have made the insane winter here more doable but with a hot summer in store…can’t wait to try it!!
My three girls LOVE building forts and this would be so great!
I would love to win fort magic for an awesome little boy I know would enjoy it so much.