Who built forts or played army as kids?

[B-Con]

I remember playing a heckova lotta war games by myself, cannons, forts, rifles, I made and played with it all...

...the days :)

 

[franznietzsche]

I remember playing a heckova lotta war games by myself, cannons, forts, rifles, I made and played with it all...

...the days :)

War games by yourself...

Did you ever lose?

 

[Mk]

I played like that too, sometimes I lost, but usually I won.

 

[JasonRox]

I can agree with that! Thats a HUGE teepee!

How long did it take you to build that sucker?

It actually took an entire summer, but it lasted a few months until someone found it.

What about SNOW FORTS! Oh my god, those were the best. Winter sucks now, global warming did have an impact and I can tell.

So much fun!

 

[Monique]

I always used to build forts/bunkers in the forrests. One time when we entered there was a forest ranger standing at the entrance, asking if we had seen anyone digging in the forest.. ofcourse we played dumb turned out that heavy duty digging equipment was used to destroy our bunker we didn't build anything after that..

 

[Gale]

It actually took an entire summer, but it lasted a few months until someone found it.

What about SNOW FORTS! Oh my god, those were the best. Winter sucks now, global warming did have an impact and I can tell.

So much fun!

We'd always buildd snow forts every winter. I loved it. I always made the coolest ones. So cool in fact that my little brother and sister would get really jealous and go inside. I didn't care, i'd sit out there for hours perfecting my forts. One time, we wanted to make one big enough for all three of us and our friends. So we rolled big balls (like for snow men) and put them in a circle, filled in the gaps, and topped them with sleds and more snow. You could fit 6 kids inside under the roof. It was the coolest ever.

 

[Moonbear]

I cheated slightly on snow forts. We could never quite get the right dome shape for the roof to keep it from collapsing (okay, we tried making igloos rather than forts, close enough), so just built square walls, tossed a sheet of plywood on top for the roof, and hid the plywood with snow. We didn't do it often because it was rare to get a snowfall of the right kind of snow to really pack well. Didn't get to make many snowmen either...you just can't make them out of that really fluffy snow. (As an aside, it was an interesting experience to walk around the student housing in MI after big snowfalls; their snowmen were very, um, creative and some even anatomically correct; well, as correct as I presume a snowman or snowwoman can get. )

 

[JasonRox]

We'd always buildd snow forts every winter. I loved it. I always made the coolest ones. So cool in fact that my little brother and sister would get really jealous and go inside. I didn't care, i'd sit out there for hours perfecting my forts. One time, we wanted to make one big enough for all three of us and our friends. So we rolled big balls (like for snow men) and put them in a circle, filled in the gaps, and topped them with sleds and more snow. You could fit 6 kids inside under the roof. It was the coolest ever.

I went on a college trip up north (northern ontario) in the winter, and we built two really big "forts". You can fit 6 people in them, well we slept in them too. It was really cool.

It's actually not that cold when you sleep outside in a snowfort.

Note: Yes, I was comfortable.

 

[ray b]

forts treehouses diging trenches to play army
we even had a real 50cal machine gun [minus the guts and way rusty]
and lots of other surplus military junk [early cold war kids]
empty lots as battle sites
I GOT YOU , NO YOU MISSED as the never ending battle cry
back in the days when parents thru you out all day to go play
just be home by dinner time