Blanket Tents Aren’t Just for Kids – They’re for Cats Too!

Building tents out of blankets is something that all young children enjoy. When I was growing up my brother and I would spend hours draping blankets across the furniture and coming up with elaborate tent designs. We would then play in them and often times sleep in them later that night. It was always a lot of fun…until it came time to tear them down and clean them up!

As an adult I’ve enjoyed building a lot of blanket tents for our daughter who is now 35+ years old and our two grandchildren age 6 and 12 years of age. Those tent making skills that I learned as a child came in handy when I started having children and grandchildren. They call me the EXPERT designer! LOL

Blanket Tents aren’t just for kids. They’re for cats too! Our 1 1/2 year old kitty, Romeo loves for us to make him little tents and caves all over the house. We rotate the rooms and where we make them. To keep things neat and tidy, we use small throw blankets instead of full-size blankets. He loves to go into them and curl up for a nap. He will sleep for hours in a newly made blanket tent!

The photo shows our handsome guy trying to catch a nap in one that I made on his Daddy’s lounge chair. It’s his favorite chair too!