Camping activities for kids?

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Originally Posted by VladTepes

We just bought a kids outdoor activity set from Coles for about $14.

Little backpack type bag with bat and ball, lacrosse thingies, boules etc. Just the thing for around the campsite I reckon.

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Huh?? You don't have kids??:o:o

Anything you want to tell us ;);):eek:

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Originally Posted by Nat130

The ideas have been great (the glow sticks are packed....I am hoping they will remove the need for a night light :D)

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I have found that with my son I let him take the torch or lantern to bed. I then turn it off when I go to bed and he is happy. At home he will wake up and scream if the night light is not on.

Captain Righty- no kids THAT I KNOW OF.

I do have nephews though.

George130 tell ya son to HTFU. (LOL)

Ok, as a kid we got to do the following while camping....

Fish, walks, bike rides, motorbike rides, Horse rides, climb the biggest tree in the area, Shoot fish, Shoot critters, kill anything that moved.

Or the best one was......

Burn ants with a magnify glass

Boring ehh...

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Originally Posted by Jeff

Hot air baloons, the type with fire lighters, can start bush fires, so be careful.

The long trip there is often the killer, are we there yet? Are we there yet?

Colouring books, walkman(walkmen?), take a bird book so they can identify any birds they see.

Wet weather is another pain as they need something to do in the tent. We got ours their own tent as we need a break from them sometimes.

If they play around the fire watch them, I was a friend's boy's ski gloves catch fire while toasting marshmallows. He got the fright of his life when seven adults leapt on him to put them out.

Jeff

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nope tie off the garbage and leave it in the sun first to float wins..

http://www.northwestoverlandsociety....Lego%20109.jpg

Just got this off the net, my kids are busy building them at the moment, could be used for camping or car trip ideas

That car's windscreen is too slopey to be a defender :eek::D

Set up a "observation trail" on one of the walking tracks, i.e. weird knot on tree, etc then take kids on walk, they have listing of what to look for, turn it into a bit of a navex. That way they learn observation, as they are looking for the things on the list and get to see more than what they would do if just went on a bush walk. They can add things too....like "JOE BLAKE!!!!!! 6 o'clock":o

This site is great, would never thought of putting this thread up:D:D:D

Several years ago I got a copy of "quicksilver" by Karl Rohnke (a follow up to "silver bullets"), there are other books too, plenty of good activities that require minimal props in there. Also plenty of "ice breakers" if you have a group of kids (or adults) that don't know each other that well.