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The “Magic” of Fort Magic Is In The Number
And Variety Of Sticks and Connectors!
- 142 Straight and Curved Sticks in seven different sizes!
- 77 Connector pieces in five varieties of shapes and sizes!
- A Huge 34 Piece Bonus Pack
adding Two Dozen additional 24” Sticks
and Ten additional 6-Way Connectors!
- 130 easy to use fabric and accessory Clips! Securely fastened custom fitting covers to ANY shape or design your child invents with no sewing! Round forts, square forts, playhouse forts, castle forts, big forts, small forts, ANY fort can have a perfectly customized cover every time they play!
- A full color Instruction Manual with over 20 designs to build!
- A high quality Storage Bag that conveniently and securely holds all of the Fort Magic pieces - so clean up is quick and easy every time!
- A 30-day Money Back Guarantee! We guarantee your kids will love playing and building with Fort Magic…literally! If you are not satisfied with your purchase for any reason you may return it for a full refund within 30 days, minus shipping.
Product Quality Is Something Fort Magic
Takes Great Pride In!
As is our dedication to making sure our products are safe and enjoyable for children to use. Our Fort Magic Kit has gone through rigorous testing, with the highest of standards, to ensure every safety measure has been met. Every test has been performed by a third party independent lab approved by the Consumer Products Safety Commission of the United States. As a retailer of goods sold to children, we would advise parents to purchase only those products that have been specifically approved by the CPSC for sale to children.
It is in the best interest of child safety to do so.
It is in the best interest of child safety to do so.
Fort Magic Is Globally Certified!
A Passion For Learning
While Having Fun
Kids love to build forts! There’s no doubt about it. Give them a fort and they are happily playing and having a blast for hours to come. Whether they are building forts from our manual, or cleverly creating new designs on their own, kids will have a tremendous amount of fun building with their Fort Magic kit.
However another benefit of building with Fort Magic parents may not realize is that it is also an excellent learning tool for the most important habits of happiness and success! This is what Fort Magic is truly passionate about.
To teach a child the value of planning, believing in their ability to complete a project, or having unlimited creativity and confidence while building or accessorizing a new design, are just a few of the important values Fort Magic increases in your child. A love of process and learning is one of the greatest gifts you can give your child, and with Fort Magic these are learned while having incredible fun!
We invest our heart, creativity and the highest standards of quality into our products…for children! Because we believe this is what children and families deserve. I am a mother, with two beautiful children of my own, and I am unendingly passionate about what we do at Fort Magic. We wish you many hours of creative, quality family time with your children! It is our pleasure to be of service each day.
Thank you!
"Fort Magic Is
Imagination At Its Best!"
Imagination At Its Best!"
“My 6 year old has Hyper Activity Disorder and loved playing with Fort Magic for over 2 hours! She actually asked to turn the TV off, saying it was
distracting her from building! WOW!”
Mom, Kelly Pasche LaPlante
Fort Magic Customer Feedback
Mom, Kelly Pasche LaPlante
Fort Magic Customer Feedback
“Fort Magic Is A
COOL Toy!”
COOL Toy!”
"Fort Magic is Learning, Imagination, Creativity and Fun! My kids’ imaginations went wild!”
Mom, Maggie Mackay
MacaroniKid.com
Mom, Maggie Mackay
MacaroniKid.com
“I Really Love Your Fort Magic Kit!”
“We’ve built a Cafe... a Car... a Submarine... a Store... a Castle... and so much more!”
Mom, Elena Lykyanchenko
Fort Magic Customer Feedback
Mom, Elena Lykyanchenko
Fort Magic Customer Feedback
"Endless Creations!"
"Fort Magic is SOOO cool! My son has made endless creations...by himself and with his friends! Sunshine slept in his bed tent for 2 weeks!"
Sunshine's Mom
ALittleJournal.com
Sunshine's Mom
ALittleJournal.com
“...To say Fort Magic encourages imaginative play is a vast understatement! Inspiring Creativity, Teamwork, and Educational... Fort Magic nails all three! The pieces are heavy duty and easy to use right out of the box!”
RaveandReview.com
RaveandReview.com
“We’ve had Fort Magic for months and Jane has not become bored with it, which is surprising, because the only other things Jane doesn’t get bored with is watching TV and using a computer.”
Mark Frauenfelder, BoingBoing.com
Mark Frauenfelder, BoingBoing.com
“Fort Magic Is The Newest Favorite Toy At Our House! The fabric clips work great and the pieces are sturdy, even after children going in and out for five days! Cleaning up is easy too!”
MyFourMonkeys.com
MyFourMonkeys.com
I highly recommend this product! It is absolutely great! You can make a ton of different forts with all of the pieces! It is a fun way to get children motivated and using their brains!”
GiveAwaysandGlitter.com
GiveAwaysandGlitter.com
“Fort Magic encourages imagination as well as the discipline to plan and complete a project from start to finish, and have extraordinary fun while doing so! You could see the wheels turning in their heads...their projects were 100% kid made!”
TheMomReviews.com
TheMomReviews.com
“Fort Magic Is The Coolest Fort In Town! I was impressed by the sheer quality of the materials. I can confidently say Fort Magic is popular with girls and boys! My neighbor had a tent over his bed for a full month!”
TinkerLab.com
TinkerLab.com
“Fort Magic loves to say you can “Build a Fort as BIG as Your Imagination” and that couldn’t be a more true statement. I had a blast building with my son! This is a toy I want in my house for years to come!”
MomStart.com
MomStart.com
“Fort Magic allows kids’ imaginations to run free! This fort building kit allows kids to build a variety of structures that can fit into a make believe world they create all on their own!”
LaughingSquid.com
LaughingSquid.com
“If Your Kids Are Into Fort Building This Is The Kit For You! Customers who purchased this fort building kit were extremely happy with their purchase. Kids never lose interest with this toy because there are so many pieces to make a huge variety of forts. Well engineered, durable and played with daily.”
Squidoo.com
Squidoo.com
Unleash Your Kids’ Imaginations With Fort Magic! Every kit includes the tools to build life-size teepees, tunnels, pirate ships, submarines, castles...whatever your kids can imagine! Fort Magic can be a great investment in your children’s imaginations, no to mention - FUN!”
NewYorkFamily.com
NewYorkFamily.com
“Awesome Little Girls Build Forts! Forts are having a moment! The daughter’s of famous comic creator, Nick Bertozzi, create their own “fortastic” journey with Fort Magic!”
TheMarySue.com
TheMarySue.com
“We Were Smitten With Fort Magic! We love the feeling of forts, teepees and treehouses. Fort Magic makes Tinkertoy-like structures to attach sheets or fabrics. Designed for kids...or adults!”
ImprovisedLife.com
ImprovisedLife.com
Important Activities To Develop Your Child’s Best Brain
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Fort Magic fort building kit belongs to a very important category of creative play toys for children called “Physical Toys”. This category includes toys that encourage and promote cognitive and emotional development through repetitive use. It is the repetitive interaction with physical toys that literally helps to ‘build’ your child’s best brain.
Dr. Cortney V. Martin, PhD, writes “Physical toys offer a number of advantages over computer-based toys for children including: Being Socially Interactive, Multisensory, Exploratory, Developing Perceptual Skills, Increased Motor Skill Development, And Encouraging Critical Thinking And Problem Solving. There is a growing body of evidence that physical building toys also contribute to spatial ability, and in turn, science and math aptitude.”
Dr. Cortney V. Martin, PhD, writes “Physical toys offer a number of advantages over computer-based toys for children including: Being Socially Interactive, Multisensory, Exploratory, Developing Perceptual Skills, Increased Motor Skill Development, And Encouraging Critical Thinking And Problem Solving. There is a growing body of evidence that physical building toys also contribute to spatial ability, and in turn, science and math aptitude.”
Photo Credit: Lowe's Creative Ideas
Sean Brotherson, Family Science Specialist, writes, “Early experience and interaction with the environment are the most critical in a child’s brain development (not genetics). Until the age of 11, a child’s brain is superdense and has about twice as many neurological connections as an adult’s. Around the age of 11 a type of 'pruning' begins and gradually the child’s brain begins to eliminate the extra connections."
"The neurons in a child's brain are formed and strengthened through repeated experiences, the connections and pathways that are built actually structure the way a child learns. If a pathway is not used, it's eventually eliminated based on the "use it or lose it" principle. If it is used repeatedly is becomes permanent.If you do them a single time, either good or bad, they are less likely to have an effect on brain development.”
"The neurons in a child's brain are formed and strengthened through repeated experiences, the connections and pathways that are built actually structure the way a child learns. If a pathway is not used, it's eventually eliminated based on the "use it or lose it" principle. If it is used repeatedly is becomes permanent.If you do them a single time, either good or bad, they are less likely to have an effect on brain development.”
Photo Credits (L-R): Lowe's Creative Ideas, Real Simple
Positive and loving interaction with loved ones, and a daily investment in quality learning activities, such as playing with physical toys, are just a few of the critical experiences that can have a huge impact on your child’s first ten years of life. These types of repetitive activities will create a strong neurological foundation in your child’s brain. It is literally the one chance we have at developing our child’s best brain for life.
Why Play Is A Child’s Work
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“Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child.”
~ Tom Stoppard
~ Tom Stoppard
Play is often thought of as a “break” from learning, but for children, play is how they learn. During play, children frequently move between important learning skills such as exploring solutions, taking incremental actions, learning from trial and error, seeing the benefit of applying focus to an idea, and developing social skills as they learn to cooperate with others while having fun. Play gives children the opportunity to feel alive and have a wonderful experience while learning how to successfully live in the world.
Photo Credit: Lowe's Creative Ideas
“Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children, play is serious learning. Play is really the work of a child.”
~ Fred Rogers, American educator, author, and television host.
~ Fred Rogers, American educator, author, and television host.
The Benefit Of Making Mistakes
“Mistakes are not just golden opportunities for learning; they are, in an important sense,
the only opportunity for learning something truly new.”
~ Daniel C. Dennett, Tufts University Professor
the only opportunity for learning something truly new.”
~ Daniel C. Dennett, Tufts University Professor
A wonderful benefit of building and creating with Fort Magic is the permission kids are afforded to be exploratory, totally unique and sometimes even “wrong”. These types of perspectives and challenges present wonderful learning opportunities for children.
When a child is building a design from their own invention they have a chance to decide for themselves what may work, what they like to build, or in what direction they would like to build next. They will think inventively about which type of stick they may like to add next, curved or straight? Long or short? Or what type of connector they would like to choose.
If a parent refrains from suggesting too much when the child is building, or criticizing the child when they are doing things differently than the parent may think correct, but instead observes patiently how well the child focuses, or compliments the child on their inventive solutions, unusual designs, or encourages the child to keep exploring or trying new ideas when at first they can’t see a solution,
then the fertile ground for raising self-esteem is set.
then the fertile ground for raising self-esteem is set.
The independence to make their own mistakes and discover their own solutions is exactly what children need to develop confidence. Mistakes make us stronger when they are the pathways to success.
Eventually, kids will find the solutions they are looking for and build something wonderfully inventive and fun! This moment… when they overcome their obstacle, or finish their new amazing design, when their face lights up with joy from accomplishing something creatively their own…this is the moment they learn mistakes are not scary failures, but simply regular stepping stones towards their personal enjoyment and success.
Eventually, kids will find the solutions they are looking for and build something wonderfully inventive and fun! This moment… when they overcome their obstacle, or finish their new amazing design, when their face lights up with joy from accomplishing something creatively their own…this is the moment they learn mistakes are not scary failures, but simply regular stepping stones towards their personal enjoyment and success.
Failure Is Your Child’s Best Friend
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David Bayles and Ted Orland [from their book, Art & Fear: Observations On The Perils (And Rewards) Of Artmaking] document a story about an art teacher who did an experiment with his grading system for two groups of students. It is an important life-lesson that teaches the incredible value in failures, an important and beneficial focus for our own lives and childrearing if applied each day. Here is what happened:
“The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality. His procedure was simple: on the final day of class he would bring in his bathroom scales and weigh the work of the 'quantity' group: fifty pounds of pots rated an 'A,' forty pounds a 'B,' and so on. Those being graded on 'quality,' however, needed to produce only one pot – albeit a perfect one – to get an 'A.'
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“Well, came grading time and a curious fact emerged:
the works of the highest quality were all produced by
the group being graded for quantity.”
It seems that while the 'quantity' group was busily churning out piles of work – and learning from their mistakes – the 'quality' group had sat theorizing about perfection, and in the end had little more to show for their efforts than grandiose theories and a pile of dead clay.”
As children apply themselves to activities that are challenging it is inevitable they will make mistakes and perhaps feel like giving up. However, if we patiently encourage them to continue on, because it is the right thing to do when faced with an important activity, they too will learn the wonderful truth that quantity becomes quality in everything we do.
Additional Source Credit: John C. Maxwell
the works of the highest quality were all produced by
the group being graded for quantity.”
It seems that while the 'quantity' group was busily churning out piles of work – and learning from their mistakes – the 'quality' group had sat theorizing about perfection, and in the end had little more to show for their efforts than grandiose theories and a pile of dead clay.”
As children apply themselves to activities that are challenging it is inevitable they will make mistakes and perhaps feel like giving up. However, if we patiently encourage them to continue on, because it is the right thing to do when faced with an important activity, they too will learn the wonderful truth that quantity becomes quality in everything we do.
Additional Source Credit: John C. Maxwell
