How to fold a children's tent into a round cover

Children at all times loved to play in small houses or homemade tents. Chairs, tables, rugs and blankets were used. Modern manufacturers have taken this into account, and now children's stores offer a large selection of play tents and centers made from practical materials.

This children's tent house will be an excellent gift for a child. It unfolds and folds easily, takes up little space and is easy to clean.

Varieties

Play tents come in many different forms. Most often they look like small houses, but models made in the form of cars, buses, and ladybugs are also popular. There are also more complex designs in which several individual tents are connected to each other by a textile tunnel pipe. But despite all this diversity, all playhouses can be divided into two groups:

frame play tent. This tent is installed using special tubes. Individual frame elements are inserted into special grooves in the textile house and secured with ties or Velcro. Approximately the same principle is used in the manufacture of large tourist tents;
a wire tent does not require frame assembly. It is made of thin but durable wire, and is already sewn into the tent. Due to these stiffening ribs, the playhouse keeps its shape.

The process of assembling a house depends on the features of its design. The frame house is quite easy to put together. You just need to untie the ribbons and remove the base sticks. All frame parts are packed in a box, and then the canvas is simply folded.

Types of tents

There are many types of camping tents. They differ in shape, type of material, purpose, capacity, weight, design. The following varieties are distinguished:

Regardless of the type of tent, it should be set up on a smooth, dry surface.

Dome

Tunnel

Tent

Tourist

Stormy

Ultralight

This tent is easy to disassemble - the ropes are untied, the frame is removed, and the fabric is folded. The frame is also composite, so it doesn't take up much space when folded. A special bag allows you to keep all the parts in one place, which eliminates their loss.

The principle of assembling wire houses

The main advantage of houses with this design is the ability to quickly set up a tent. All you need to do is take it out of the bitch, unfold it and the house is ready. But to fold it you will need to put in a little more effort:

Take the house by one of the stiffening ribs and fold it so that one wall fits snugly against the other. Then fold again. The result should be a flat structure in which each of the walls of the house will fit snugly against each other.
Tuck the bottom and roof inside the house. Try to distribute the fabric evenly.
Take the folded house with both hands by the top and bottom, and then twist it exactly in the middle. As a result of this action, the wire frame will take the shape of a figure eight.
Fold the resulting figure eight in half and pack the tent in a bag.

The process of assembling a wire tent seems complicated only at first glance. It is enough to do this once, and in the future you will not have any difficulties.

Children love to build houses from any available material: chairs, armchairs, sofa cushions, blankets and rugs are used. In such houses it is so wonderful to play with dolls, hide from the evil Baba Yaga and turn on a flashlight in the dark.

One thing is a pity, this house is not strong. One move and the roof has already broken. And even the walls along with it. The children are upset. But the parents are worried: how safe is such a house?

Children's play tents that went on sale became an excellent way out of the situation. Lightweight and durable, they can look like a real princess castle, a house with a tunnel, or even a car.

As a rule, they are installed literally in one motion. But collecting them after the game turns out to be not so easy. How to fold a children's tent to put it in a small cover? So this tent stands in the corner of the room for months. Or on the balcony.

But the inscription on the case states that you can pack a gaming tent into the case in one minute. What are we doing wrong? Let's figure it out together.

General Description of Wire Tent

If you don’t have a children’s tent yet, you’re probably wondering what such a structure is. Typically, children's tents are packed in a round case, which is convenient to transport by car or simply in your hands.

The frame is based on a strong and thin wire, which gives the house a certain shape. Detailed step-by-step assembly instructions are not required for such products. Thanks to elastic wire stiffeners, the installation process takes one minute, since the structure itself takes the required shape (Figure 2).

Figure 2. The modern market offers a huge range of children's tents of different shapes and sizes

Unfortunately, manufacturers do not always provide their products with detailed assembly instructions, and parents are afraid that careless movement may damage the stiffeners and the house will break. Especially for such cases, we have compiled detailed assembly instructions.

What is a children's frame play tent?

Such tents can have different appearances - a ladybug, a round house. But they are all very similar to ordinary tourist tents, installed using a tubular frame.

The tubes are assembled into longer ones, pushed into the grooves of the fabric of the house panel and secured in special pockets or tied with ropes.

They are easy to disassemble - untie the fastening ropes, remove the frame and fold the canvas itself. A tourist tent takes a little longer to assemble, but only because of its large dimensions.

Types of Chinese tents

Products from the Middle Kingdom are in demand all over the world - they are cheaper than analogues from other countries, and sometimes are in no way inferior in quality. This also applies to tents. There are 3 types of them:

Automatic or semi-automatic. Their advantage is fast, simple installation, taking only a few seconds. You just need to take the mini-tent out of the case. The rods will straighten, the fabric will stretch - everything is ready. They differ in bottom area and number of places.
Fishermen's. It is an indispensable attribute of winter overnight fishing. They have more durable material, an insulated bottom and additional compartments for gear.
Tourist tents. Great for camping in any conditions. There can be both automatic machines and stage-by-stage assembly.

Keep in mind that the characteristics of the tent will also depend on its material.

What is a wire children's tent?

The situation is completely different with wire play tents. At the base of the frame there is a thin and strong wire.

Installing this one really takes one minute: you just need to take it out of the package and unfold it. Thanks to elastic wire stiffeners, the tent itself takes the desired shape.

But not everyone succeeds in assembling a tent the first time. Probably because parents are afraid of damaging the stiffeners or doing something wrong. If your house does not have assembly instructions or you just can’t figure it out, try using our action algorithm.

How to assemble an automatic tent?

An automatic tent, or as some call it an “automatic tent,” consists of fairly bendable springy steel, which is covered with synthetic fabric - polyester. These types of tents have a huge advantage - they are installed in a matter of minutes. But there are some problems with assembly, although putting the automatic structure together is not that difficult. To do this, you just need to know how to do it correctly, which we will tell you.

Important! This type of tent needs to be folded once, unlike the Chinese tent design, which is folded in two passes.

The algorithm for assembling an automatic tent consists of the following main stages:

First of all, we fold all sides of the awning into one so that it becomes perfectly flat. The result should be a flat triangle, a square, that is, the shape of one side part.
At the next stage, we place the tent on the floor or ground, at the same time pulling one side towards us, pressing it to one side edge of the plane.
When the steel arcs of the automatic metal structure begin to fold into a figure eight, we twist it, turning the oval into a circle.

Important! Practice assembling your tent at home several times so that you don’t have to tinker with it outdoors for a long time.

How to fold a children's square tent-house: step-by-step instructions

Stand facing the wall of the house (any one) and grab the ribs on both sides with your hands.
Push the edge that you hold with your right hand (or left, if you are left-handed) forward - to the opposite corner.
Now the house looks like a book, which you fold, closing the pages.

Hold the folded house by the side ribs in their lower third (“floor” towards you, roof away from you). Move your hands towards each other, as if moving one towards the other. The wire ribs will form a figure of eight when you bring your hands together.
Place the two “heads” of your figure eight on top of each other.
In your hands the house has formed into a ring. Now it can be easily stored in a round case.

The video illustrates the addition process in even more detail:

If the figure eight is not easy for you or the structure of the house does not want to fold in this way, try another option:

Place the flat house folded into a “book” on the floor or any other surface.
The lower part (“floor”). The right hand holds the lower part of the house, while the left hand holds the side panel in the middle with a rigid wire rib.
Gently press the side piece against the top piece. Landmark - the right hand is in the center of the upper part of the house. Pull the sidewall towards it.
Since the tent has stiffening ribs, when folded in half, the house has rounded sides. When folding the side part, turn it slightly, like a steering wheel, around its axis.
Press it also with your right hand, rolling it into a ring.
The second half is placed on top of the first.
You have a comfortable circle in your hands again. Put it in the case.

And a couple more detailed videos on folding a square children's wire house; in the second, the process of folding the frame into a circle is presented in detailed slow motion:

How to assemble and remove a tent-bus, car, train and other “unearthly beauty”?

As you probably already understood, all children's tents, regardless of their appearance, are folded according to the same principle. The scheme of your actions is the same in any case: connect the side edges, get a flat figure and, with a light, graceful movement, twist a figure eight out of it.

The figure eight also needs to be folded in half and - voila - the tent is folded!

Confusion often arises, especially among inexperienced travelers, when assembling and folding a tent. It is important to disassemble it correctly so that the structure is compact, does not take up much space and fits into the case. The figure-eight folding principle is very helpful for compact storage and easy carrying. A video and a detailed diagram will clearly show you how to assemble a tent in a figure eight pattern.

How to assemble a figure eight tent - Diagram

Winter tent

Winter tourist tents come with external and internal frames, as well as with zippers and Velcro. Velcro designs are slightly different from regular ones. To fold this type, you need to close all the locks and Velcro, and then press one of the corners inward to make a kind of book. Then it needs to be positioned so that one of the corners is turned towards itself. The lower ribs should be pressed to the floor, and the upper ones should be tilted forward and down, and then packed in a case.

A tent with an internal frame, i.e. with arches hidden under the awning, you need to disassemble as follows:

Remove all pegs around the perimeter of the structure.
Remove the awning and dry it well, take out the arcs and fold them separately.
On the ground, fold both layers together, seam to seam, roll into a tube. You can put the inner layer on top of the lower one and twist it. If the folded tent does not fit into the cover, it means it was not assembled correctly.

The structure with an external frame (the arcs are located on top of the awning) is assembled in a similar way: all the pegs are removed, the awning is removed, the arcs are pulled out, and the structure is rolled up.

How to fold a children's triangular tent: a detailed algorithm

It would be more appropriate to call this house a pyramid. Stand facing one of its sides. Insert one rib inward, pushing towards the opposite one.
Tuck all parts of the panel inward towards the center and get a flat triangle.
The elastic band located on the bottom of the house must remain outside.
Grasp the top of the triangle and the middle part of the base. Using a rotational movement of your arms, making a figure eight, connect both hands.

OR press the top to the base. The side parts of the resulting structure, as in the case of the tent-house, will become rounded. Fold one circle towards the center of the base. The second one will develop on its own.
Secure the resulting circle with an elastic band.
You can put the folded tent in the cover.

The folding algorithm is presented even more clearly in the following videos:

How to assemble a tent

An automatic tent has an advantage over a conventional one: the structure is made of a springy steel base, covered with polyester, and is very easy and quick to assemble.

To assemble the automatic tent, you must follow the instructions:

Fold it so that it takes a flat shape. To do this, you need to fold all sides into one.
Place the tent on the floor, then pull one of its ends towards you to press it to the opposite edge of the plane.
Its arcs will take the shape of a figure eight, which must be twisted so as to form a circle.

In order for everything to work out properly in nature, you need to try several times to assemble and disassemble the automatic structure of the house.

Having bought a tent and installed it safely, many people completely forget about one detail. Sooner or later the terrible hour will come when the tent will have to be folded :)

Surprisingly, this often becomes an insoluble dilemma. We have analyzed all the requests and provide several options for how to fold a tent correctly

How to assemble a children's round tent “Princess Castle”: action diagram

Is it really possible that such a large and luxurious castle can also be hidden in a small round container bag? Exactly.

The Princess Castle belongs to the category of frame tents that are assembled according to the principle of adult tourist tents.

Remove the vertical stick from the frame. They hold the turret cylinder in a vertical position.
This long stick consists of several small ones, attached to an elastic band. Fold them up.
Do the same with the rest of the frame sticks of your castle.
You are left with a round base and a round top of the tower. Connect them to each other. Tuck the cylinder panel inside.
Grasp both sides of the circle with both hands. And again make a figure eight - turn one hand down and the other up.
Connect two figure eight circles.
Use an elastic band attached to the base of the tent to secure the resulting structure. The lock is ready to “hide” in a round case.

The principle of assembling a children's house

So, if you purchased a children's tent in the shape of a house, you are probably wondering how to fold it correctly.

Assembly instructions are as follows:

Take the product out of the case and stand facing any wall of the house.
Next, you need to grab with your hands two stiffening ribs on both sides of the wall.
Start pushing your right rib (if you are right-handed) forward into the opposite corner. If you are left-handed, then you need to push the left edge.
As a result, the house will look like a book that is folded, closing the pages.
Holding the house by the side ribs in the lower third, begin to move your hands towards each other. In the process, you need to put your hands behind each other so that the wire ribs form a figure of eight.
Now the two parts of the figure eight will easily stack on top of each other, and the tent can be easily packed into a round cover.

Figure 3. Algorithm for assembling a children's house
At first glance, it may seem that folding a tent-house is difficult, but in fact, once is enough to master the technology and not encounter any difficulties in the future (Figure 3).

What is a wire children's tent

The frame of such a tent is a thin but strong wire. Installing the house is quite simple - you just need to take it out of the bag and unfold it. The elastic ribs themselves will take the desired shape.

Assembling a tent is much more difficult. Without assembly instructions, you may not be able to assemble the house. This design is one-piece; there is no need to remove or detach any parts. You just need to twist the wire frame correctly; not everyone can do this the first time. Sometimes the help of a second person may be required.

The main advantage of an automatic tent is the speed of installation. The structure can be installed in a maximum of 2 minutes. The awning is convenient to use at home and take with you on vacation. Wire products come in different shapes and sizes. Structures of any configuration are assembled according to the same principle, so if a person has learned to roll a wire awning of one shape, he can easily cope with others.

How to fix a tent

The main type of failure that can occur during camping conditions is damage to the panel. It is usually made from polyamide and polyester fibers. They are resistant to stretching and tearing, but do not tolerate fire or punctures.

Experienced tourists advise carrying reinforced tape with you; with it you can easily repair any microdamage.

At home, you need to carry out more thorough repairs. You just need to find the right fabric and glue. The best adhesive is Moment Crystal (it is specially designed for working with synthetic materials). Any piece of synthetic fabric will be suitable for the patch.

Before applying the glue, the surface around the puncture is degreased. Next, glue is applied in an even layer and a patch is placed.

After installing the patch, wait 10 minutes at room temperature.

How to fold a children's tent

To fold the tent into a round cover, you need to twist it correctly. The diagrams that come with almost every tent will help you do this. Following the step-by-step pictures, you can fold the tent in a few minutes.

The square product is folded according to the following pattern:

Fold the awning like a book and place the structure on the floor.
The base goes up. The lower structure is supported by the right hand, the wire rib by the left.
The side is pressed against the top. You can focus on your right palm, which should be in the center of the roof of the product.
When folded, the sides of the square will become rounded. The side part is assembled by twisting.

All that remains is to press down the structure with your palm, rolling the awning into a ring, placing one part on top of the other. You should get a small circle, which just needs to be placed in a special bag.

The most difficult moment is to turn the resulting oval into a circle using twisting. If you can’t perform the manipulation yourself, you can ask for help. In the case when no one is nearby, the elusive rib is held with the foot.

How to fold a children's triangular tent: detailed instructions

This house resembles a pyramid in shape. The assembly algorithm is as follows:

You need to go up to the tent, grab it with your hand and insert one side inside, pushing it towards the edge that is opposite. When performing this procedure, you will have to make an effort, because the wire will bend back.
Tuck all the fabric towards the center to form a flat triangle. In this case, the fastening ties must remain outside.
Grasp the top of the triangle and the center of the base with your hands. Make a figure eight in a circular motion.
You can press the top towards the bottom to round out the ribs. If you wrap one circle towards the middle, the second one will fall on its own.
The resulting circle is secured with ties.

How to assemble a winter tent with a figure eight

Winter model shelters are made from more advanced materials. Mostly synthetic fabric is used - lavsan, polyester, nylon.

To fold a Chinese winter tent, a similar method is used as for an automatic one. The corners are folded diagonally towards the middle. The shape is a square. The diagonal ends are taken in the hands - the upper left corner with the left hand, and the right corner with the right. Next, a circular movement is made - left away from you, right towards you. The tent rolls up into a circle and fits comfortably in the cover.