Today I will tell you how to up-pop your pop up tent.
Step One: Pinch the top.
This part is pretty easy. You can feel the rings of the framing inside the nylon and you want to pull the middle two rings together evenly.
Step Two: Bring up the sides.
Hold the middle two rings together with one hand while you use your other hand to pull both the sides up to meet the middle.
Step Three: The “taco flip.”
While holding the ends together, flip the tent vertically so the top of the tent is facing you, the bottom is pointing away, and one of the ends is resting on the ground.
Step Four: The fold-over.
This is the tricky part. Keep holding the top of the tent together and using the ground as leverage against the bottom, rotate the top down and inwards. You can see Joe’s right hand is guiding the frame down and up inside the fold of the tent.
Step Five: The layering twist.
As you push the tent into itself rotate one ring above the other so that they are moving to line up on top of each other.
Step Six: Line up the rings.
After twisting the rings in place, push the tent down to line up all the framing rings and slide the closing band over the edges.
Now that you know how to fold your pop up tent, you can take the stress out of campsite set-up and tear-down and spend this summer building happy memories with your kids.