DIY Play Tents for our New Year’s Eve campout!
How to make these easy DIY play tents that your kids will love!
We already have a few New Year’s Eve traditions in our house for the kids like- we order sushi takeout and do chocolate fondue for dessert! It’s always a fun, low key night and the kids love it! This year I wanted to add a new activity in that willhopefully become a fun tradition for us. We are going to a family “camp out” in our living room, play games, make smores, do fondue and eventually when they are older, stay up to watch the ball drop. With our new tradition I decided to do little DIY tents for each of the kids. All the steps for how I made these little cutie tents are listed below! Materials list is at the very end.
That’s it! Then you can style them up as cute as you want!
Since our play tents were for a campout I made them sleepover ready. The kids got these blow up mattresses from Santa so they were perfect to slide into each tent.
I used sheets our kids already have for their beds, added fluffy pillows, their homemade blankets from their great grandma and their hydroflasks (also a Christmas gift).
The kids are sooo excited for our camp out and I’m excited to have a new fun tradition to carry on with the kids!
Materials list:
2 peices of wood measuring 8 feet by 2 inches, by 1 inch
3 dowels measuring 4 feet long (thickness is up to you, but the thicker the dowel is the sturdier the tent will be
8 foot peice of fabric (old curtains or sheets work perfectly!)
Mattresses (amazon) they are really optional but are soo cute and can be used again for sleepovers, family trips etc.