Everest Toys Crazy Forts, Pink

This is great! I wish this was around when I was a kid! It's easy to put together, my 4 yr old can help but sometimes doesn't push it in all the way. The balls have arrows that show where to insert for maximum sturdiness. Holds several lighter weight blankets or towels. I wish I bought 2 sets because 1 set as pictured, only got us this 3x3 box, but the box fits a couple toddlers or a toddler and a bunch of stuffies. So if you can, buy 2 sets it'll make your creations cooler, but it's an awesome activity to do with kiddos on a rainy day. BTW this set did not come with a bag to hold everything, but to me that's not a big deal. I've got plenty of reusable bags I can use or just put back in the box....

I bought this for my 6yo so she can build an igloo. You need two sets of Crazy Forts to build it and she already had one as a gift so the price of this on Amazon was worth it. Building with this was easy. They have arrows to help show where to insert the stick. The instructions are fairly easy to follow and the letters on the balls help to create whatever structure you want to build. Whether it's your own or you're following one from their instruction sheet that's included. This product will definitely be a long time keeper!

We bought this for my soon to be 5 year old daughter for Christmas along with the purple Crazy Fort. Pink and Purple are her favorite colors. Christmas day we used one of them to build a house like the instructions had illustrated. It was not very hard to do but you really do need to pay attention to how the sticks are inserted so that building is easy. The instructions state that the arrows should always point up and that is very important since it makes everything line up correctly. One thing that the instructions do not state is that the sticks that are inserted in the horizontal hole should also line up with one of the arrows, this ensures that the angle holes are properly in place. You can always spin the ball but I would rather do it right the first time. The sticks can be a little hard to get in some of the holes and that is where twisting as you insert the stick helps. The structures built are not strong enough for her to climb on but she is pretty careful with her things so she does not tear them up. The strength is good enough to put a sheet or light blanket over the top for a fort/tent experience since kids her age love to move inside and outside whatever we build. My daughter is not able to build much by herself but she has had a lot of fun making an umbrella, a propeller and many different small things that exercise her imagination. When she wants a larger structure built, she asks for my help and then she helps put pieces together and learns at the same time. One of the most fun things for me is that you can build the same thing several times and one time it is a fort, another time it is a house, another time it is a castle. Imagination is the best toy a child can have and this helps exercise her imagination.

I almost never write reviews for products, but this one was such an awesome purchase that I needed to come back and spread the joy! It's a win-win solution for everyone! My kids kept bugging me to build a fort with them, but I hate the mess (that _I_ have to clean!) of sofa cushions etc. spread all around and the fort always collapses and instead of fun everyone's just frustrated. So I ordered these. And behold, I actually LIKE building forts with my kids! It's great for developing their spatial understanding and most importantly: it's easy for them to pull apart and put it away themselves (!!) (and it goes into relatively small space). They can build whatever they imagine, it doesn't collapse and my sofa cushions stay put! Some reviews complain that it's not sturdy enough to hold blankets, but I'm happy to disagree (please see the photo). Some reviews complain there aren't enough pieces to build anything in the manual / examples - not true. There were exactly enough pieces to build everything in the example pictures - although we were all having so much fun that we did order another set for even bigger and mightier towers! It works just as hoped and imagined (and even better) and it has made our lives easier and more fun. Five stars!

Fast shipping my child loves building things. Got the Discovery Kids set first but like all other brands, one set just isnt enough so i got a second set..I like this set better...the balls have arrows on them to tell u which holes to use so u can mke a perfect square while the DK one didnt and it was lots of frustrating trial and error.***PLEASE NOTE*** for those using two different brands like i did, the stick lenths were different, crazy forts were longer (which in turn gives more inside room) than the DK..you can incorporate them both to make them both work together, you just need to use your brains a bit more!

OK I should start with ...My kids love it and would rate it 5 stars. Pros: *My six year old is able to build forts by herself with no help. She doesn't do well reading the instructions, but she just uses her imagination. She knows that you have to put the Arrows on the ball joints to the Top. * My kids LOVE this building and moving and creating their own fort. *The Kids can play for hours with it, sometimes they stay up for days at a time before being rebuilt, or put away. Cons: *For my six year old to follow the instructions exactly, she needs help...I even have a hard time following them completely and just figure it out on my own instead of using them. They are confusing to follow. *The plastic rods are thin, and hollow. You have to be careful how hard you push on them because otherwise they would probably break or bend. We have never had this happen, but we are conscious of the problem and purposely take care. *The set really should be at least half its size bigger. As MANY other reviewers have stated...you really need two sets. One set would even be too small for just one kid, not because of size...but because you are limited on the different types of structures that can be built. I made a "cover" for the fort. I had a Huge piece of 100% Polyester Fabric, that I couldn't fathom using, ever, for any clothes or projects... so I took two 3 1/2 yard sections and sewed them together longways. I know that seems like a lot of fabric. But it always covers everything they have made, I don't have to worry about them playing with my clean sheets. And because it's 100% polyester..it has never wrinkled...even when it is just thrown in a pile or stuffed in a bag. And for a fort cover...the fabric print is actually kinda neat. Yes I would buy it again. In fact, I will probably buy another set or two, so that my three kids can have enough room to play and so that there won't be any limits to their creations.

We bought two of these sets (one in the pink and one of the glow-in-the-dark) for our kiddos, girl age 7 and boy age 9, so they could build bigger structures together since they LOVE building forts. These are AWESOME!! They had no trouble at all placing the stick pieces into the round pieces, and as a definite plus, once the pieces were placed together, they stayed together without constantly falling out. I helped them make their first "building" and we were able to place a tent around a queen sized air bed that we can all sit under without our heads touching the top. We placed sheets over the top and sides and I must admit, I am impressed at how well it is holding up. We used every piece in both sets to finish the structure, and it's pretty big. We also made a pattern of sorts out of the colors, so it looks really cool when it glows in the dark. It has been up and has been played in for over a week and hasn't budged. GREAT BUY especially for the price. Other tents we've built, we've had to attach to furniture and walls, etc. This fort kit allows you to build with only the kit and a few sheets, and this is a HUGE plus in a small area...or just for keeping the mess at a minimum. =)

This may be the most unintuitive, poorly-designed, miserable to put together experience in frustration I have ever experienced. If you'd like to ruin a good day and get into a fight with your spouse and crave the broad side of a two-by-four against your forehead as relief from putting this together, then by all means, buy this. I would not give this to a child I hated. The balls are all monochrome pink, and must be put together with barely visible letter coordination. If you have a magnifying glass to scour the surface of these infuriating rubber balls, and hours of spare time, then maybe this isn't so bad. But if you're a parent for whom time is valuable, and you don't hate yourself, then run for the bloody hills.