Did you build a Den?

[darren]

Re: Did you build a Den?

we had many dens mainly tree huts.
thankfully they where not too high up as i didnt like climbing too high

[battyrat]

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We had dens all over the place. Me and my mates used to live on the edge of town so we always played well away in the countryside. I can remember a lot of dens like ours scattered all over the place. One was around an old pond and some kids had built a platform high in the old trees above it. There was two islands in the stream near my home we used one of these islands even going as far as to weave together a lot of twigs and branches to make walls. So many happy memories of Lazy summer days spent in or around our dens. Even made peg guns to protect it whilst we were there, lol.

[Twocky61]

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We used a quarry hut as our den when the quarry was closed for the weekend. One memorable occassion we forced open a wooden crate and found it full of sticks of dynamite

The sticks were even primed. I mean, WTF??!! I am sure Health & Safety would have been all over the company like bees on honey as they were criminally negligent storing them like that in an insecure hut. OK, we were naughty too, finding them but we wouldn't have if their security was up to scratch.

Anyway fun time starts here we thought Fireworks night early this year in February

So we took some sticks and made bundles of six sticks (well we might as well go mad )

After a number of rather powerful explosions guess who turned up? You got it: The police with their armed response friends

When they realised we were kids we were taken home & we got a stern telling off from the police telling us we could have been killed

Same from our parents when the police left

Oh happy days

[80sChav]

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At school when we had PE at the Local Leisure Centre upstairs me and 2 or 3 best mates had a sort of (un-built of course) Den upstairs in the Centre until a Teachers hand sussed that we was'nt taking part in Activities downstairs. All tat probably existed was a few weights but how cool we thought it wa and "our own little place" to nothing but lift weights and chill! Happy day's/times indeed no doubts!

80sChav

[80sChav]

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Me and my best friend (until I moved Secondary School's) had a great Den that we adapted like Heather mentioned in the first post. Every day now when I go out and go past some certain bushes/tree's (i'm unsure what i'd describe them as exactly), they just remind me of the Den we had.

The bushes and tree was on a slope, like it was going in to a Forest or something - not that it did. It was easy and brilliant to play any outside games, as we did then, like hide and seek etc. Great times indeed

[FLYING SAUCER]

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We had a rather tall tree at the bottom of the garden (and I will always be thankfull for it, (that is the tree I used to run to and climb to get away from my angry Mother!! It saved my life times!)

Anyway, one day, I set my heart on a Tree House! So I nicked a load of huge nails and a hammer from Dads shed and took a wooden Davenports beer crate up to a sturdy branch and nailed it there - wasn't quite the dream treehouse, but the view was great! I could shout to neighbours and sit there and dream!

When Mum saw it she went mad at me! But it stayed....................

[tulip]

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Lol,Darren,Im a childcare worker,I do after school care.The kids asked for the big jigsaw shaped mats out,they use them to make dens and we were given loads of groundsheets and stuff from our head office too.The kids were busy on thier own,but asked us for some help.We made a house type thing with them.Great fun.We did den building training a couple of years ago!


tulip

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I never had a den or a hut, but we played with the older kids in the street who had a gang hut in the shed of their garden. We used to think it was so cool and would make perfect mud biscuits and put red berries in them, they looked great once they'd hardened.

My cousins got to use my grandad's old sunhouse for a gang hut - I was so jealous. I would sit in it when they weren't there and read all their gang notes on the notice board. Grandad pulled it down eventually, but left the bricks around the bottom which were around a foot high. I tried out my friends pogo-stick next to them, slipped on the mossy surface and split my head open. It's revenge for my jealousy maybe :0(

[darren]

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I had a wendy house.Oddly enough we made indoor dens at work yesterday!


tulip

where u making them for some kids
perhaps your own.

[frame]

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I lived in the Somerset countryside so we had lots of nothing. Our den was like a little fortress,a neighbour kid found a dead cat and stuck its head on a big stick at the entrance to scare off kids from the next village....ugh.... I never did like dens after that.

Frame.

[tulip]

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I had a wendy house.Oddly enough we made indoor dens at work yesterday!


tulip

[kazboot]

Re: Did you build a Den?

We always had pets when we built dens or tents. We'd put ladybirds in supermousse pots with pierced cling film on top and once we had a worm in a jam jar, complete with soil for his travels.

I mainly had caterpillars and ladybirds as jamjar pets. Nothing too creepy or slimy!
They always had lovely foliage in with them to crawl on and always had holes punched in the lid to breathe

[Trickyvee]

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We had a disused railway close to where I lived as a youngster and one summer a group of about six of us made a den in an old abandoned hut next to the line.
It was pretty good, we made seats and a table out of old bits of wood scattered about and even had some flowers in the window in a jam jar to make it homely!

We always had pets when we built dens or tents. We'd put ladybirds in supermousse pots with pierced cling film on top and once we had a worm in a jam jar, complete with soil for his travels.

[zip55]

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Clothes horse and a sheet

[kazboot]

Re: Did you build a Den?

We had a disused railway close to where I lived as a youngster and one summer a group of about six of us made a den in an old abandoned hut next to the line.
It was pretty good, we made seats and a table out of old bits of wood scattered about and even had some flowers in the window in a jam jar to make it homely!