Darshan Dhaduk Week 15 - Box Forts
Darshan Dhaduk
Mrs. Smith
English 11 AP
15 April 2025
Every time my family would get a big cardboard box from an amazon delivery, I would always be the first one to open the box up, not for what was inside the box, but cutting up the box so I could make a box fort. I remember the first time my friends and I made a fort together. It was the summer of third grade and this was one of the hottest summers in my opinion. Going outside and playing for more than thirty minutes made me sweat so much that I felt like I lost at least five pound of weight. During this summer my friends came up with the idea of making a cardboard box fort together. We gathered boxes and after some tape and cutting up cardboard, we had our fort. This was still not enough for us, so we decided to make two forts and we started to have a water fight. Now making these forts had already drained our energy. We still decided to go on, and later we had a water fight with two teams. I remember going home and getting our floors wet from being soaked by the water fight. We would do this every week, until the cardboard boxes got so wet they couldn't stand up by themselves. We didn’t use the box forts just for having water fights, but we also made them inside our homes. Making box forts got so addicting to me, that I started to sleep in the box forts that I would make. I would start to spend so much time in the box forts that my parents had to tell me to get out and try to do something else. It was times like these just make me think to my self how enjoyable my life was. Everyone told me not to be on that screen and go outside and life my life, because it would be a time that I would never get back again.
Hi Darshan! I knew I had to read your blog when I saw the title, "Box Forts." They were some of my favorite kinds of forts to make as a kid. I never had any water fights in them like you did, but now I kind of wish I had! Reading your post reminded me of the blanket forts I used to make. I’d gather every blanket in the house and drape them over chairs to build a huge fort. I made them at home, at my friends’ houses, and even once in my first-grade classroom. Blanket forts were the best when it was raining outside. You could crawl in with snacks, stuffed animals, and games, and it felt like your own cozy world. Anyway, thank you so much for sharing! I might need to make a box fort and have a water fight this summer too!
ReplyDeleteDUDE!!! Box forts just brought back so many memories it's actually insane. First off, props to you for choosing the title, it quite literally caught my eye. Secondly, I have to say, box forts in covid was peak entertainment.
ReplyDeleteMaybe not exactly making a whole fort out of boxes, but I remember me and my sister used to gather up in the living room and bring out all out amazon boxes from the garage, a buncha chairs, pillows, blankets, and create a humongous cave or fort of some sort. And then we just spent the rest of the night with a bag of popcorn and watching Harry Potter for the millionth time ever. Small items like these really do play such a monumental role in shaping our childhood experiences.
Honestly, after reading this, I might make a box fort again!
-I guess you'll just have to wait and see !
Hakim
Hi Darshan,
ReplyDeleteYour blog brought back a lot of nostalgia for me. It’s amazing how something like a cardboard box could turn into such a huge source of creativity and joy. I also like how you vividly described the summer days, the water fights you had with friends, and the time you spent with your friends working on your fort. The whole process sounded like fun, and sleeping in the fort afterwards must have been very satisfying and comfortable after investing hard work in them. I remember building similar forts but out of pillows and cushions with my family, which afterwards we would camp in them for hours with blankets, food, books and other entertainment. Reading your blog was very fun and interesting, thank you for sharing.
Hey Darshan, this blog brought up so many memories for me. As a child I was not much of a fort person, but me and my friends were the explorer types. I remember running around all of our neighborhoods finding new sites and different nooks. We used to honestly just get lost and try finding our way back to whoever's house we were at. It was so fun to find cool buildings, especially this one time where we walked into an open office building after hours. As little seven year olds it was honestly the best experience of that year. We made friends with a security guard and a manager who told us to go home safely.
ReplyDeleteHey Darshan! Just seeing the title of your blog brought back so much nostalgia for me. As a kid, I was obsessed with boxes, not just for making forts, but also cardboard armor. I remember all the weekends where I'd go over to my cousin's house, and we'd tear into the piles of old boxes, retaping them to recreate a Frankenstein-esque wall of doom and despair, then play dodgeball with our newly made map. I would do so many things with cardboard boxes, even trying to build the squirrels in my backyard a little house. Unfortunately, I don't think the squirrels even noticed, let alone appreciated, the effort I put into their little sanctuaries. But wow, looking back I was really weirdly fond of making things from cardboard. I do vaguely remember considering becoming an architect after getting tons of compliments from my aunts and uncles of these cardboard sets I made and painted for my Lego world. Cardboard is a lot more than just a material; it was a way for me to express my creativity and try and improve the world around me at a young age, and for a really cheap price! Thank you Darshan for writing this blog; it brought back so many memories from a simpler time.
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