Has anyone got an IKEA play tent? How on earth do you collapse it???

[Annner]

We've got one, and need to create some space in the living room. It's called KORALL ANEMON in the catalogue.

But we can't work out how to take it down and haven't a clue where the instructions are!

Can anyone enlighten us?

Taaeverso,

Annner

I don't have one, but found pic here and looks as if it concertinas round and ties in middle.
If you enlarge image it's clearer.

Hope you collapse it in time for New Year!

(I realise I'm probably too late to be useful. Sorry! )

Hello Macdog,

Thank you so much for the hint on zooming in on the picture of the collapsed tent. We had found the tent in the catalogue online in the quest for the instructions, but didn't look futher once we had failed to find them.

For anyone else in the same situation... you just push the middle bit up and it folds in on itself.

Marvellous: we have our living room back again!!!

Happy New Year,

Annner

Glad I could help

Have a Happy New Year!

Happy New year to All,
This is for the IKEA play tent made by
Korall, specific model: Anemon.
OK, to be specific on how to get the tent to collapse, I'll start with how to open it first.

1. There are two roughly round plastic parts (rounded slightly, like a slice off the top of a globe) screwed together, which hold the wire supports together, at the top of the tent.
2. When you first bring the tent sections to the fully opened tent position, you may hear a "snap", as the wire supports latch "downward" into notches in the plastic (due to spring action of the wire sets).
3. Since the wires "fall downward" into notches, when you want to collapse the tent you must be able to bring the wires "upward out of the notches while rotating them to the collapsed tent position, at the same time*.
4. In order to bring the wires upward, you should grasp the top plastic parts mentioned earlier, and one at a time push upward and rotate toward closed, for each side of the tent.
5. The front door wires do not latch closed, so that the child can open and close the door, they only use velcro to hold them closed.
6. The set that latches is the set that is just further around than the the front door set.