Child’s play tent craft
A couple of years ago, I got a really cute play tent made by Bazoongi for my daughter’s birthday. The kids loved playing with it, and I was wishing I could use it this year for the kids to play in at her birthday party. Unfortunately, leaving the tent out in the sun destroyed the material. It looked like a perforated, papery sort of material, similar to tea bags but much thicker. When I picked up the tent to move it, my hands were covered in a fine dust from the material disintegrating. I threw out the tent cover, but kept the tent poles thinking I’d make a new cover for it.
That was two years ago, but I still have the tent poles. I just did a search on the internet to see if there are any cute ideas for making play tents, and I stumbled on this blog article for making a canvas tepee style tent without any sewing. It looks like a fun project. The author has the kids decorate the tent with craft paint. My tent is shaped like a house, so I don’t know if using grommets and ties instead of sewing will work for me, but I like the idea of the craft so much, I wanted to post a link to it.
Looking a bit more, I saw an article called “Princess Tent for Zoe” which describes making a house-shaped tent. I already have my frame, but making a frame out of PVC doesn’t look that complicated. I can use the help in measuring the frame to make a pattern for my tent and sewing it together.
May 2nd, 2010 at 11:46 am
Sounds like you had a great time at the event. Keep us updated on when the next event will happen!