Our kids love building forts with pillows, couches, chairs, you name it. So when we found this kit to build it with only the supplies and some sheets we thought, "why not?" Well, nope! The little poles are kind of flimsy, but still actually hard to get into the little ball joist. If you don't line them up then you can't build across. It's not really a child friendly build your own fort- more like a parent follow the instructions and build in under an hour and watch it fall down in 5 minutes. Take a pass on this.