Thread: Camping activities for kids?

We've made a story about a walk - based on a counting book we were reading. As we went a long we found - 1 insect, 2 birds, 3 rocks etc. Can then illustrate if you (or they) are artistic. OR take photos for printing at home.

Digital photography is a current favorite - take plenty of batteries and not your favorite SLR.

Just let them play - this can take them a while to get used to if they're more used to TV.

A book I read years back recommended books, Lego, dolls and a soccer ball as the best travelling toys for kids.

How old are the tin lids?
They're not into drinking copious amounts of rum & beer yet eh?

you cant leave home without a bat and ball

torches at night for spotlight

anything thats simple to do kids will do it
dont make things to hard for them or yourself

Thankfully they are too young to drink (6 & 8) Wouldn't want to have to share the alcohol between 4!

Growing up we always went camping and we were never bored.

We only have the kids on weekends and we don't have 'computer games' or anywhere near as many toys at our place as they do at home - have to be honest and say here that I have no intention of ever getting them a game console as they play too much at their house as it is.

When the kids are with us they are always that busy with paper and sticky tape or getting muddy in the garden that they don't even ask to have the TV on!

Quite often (after checking neighbours washing is not on the line) we'll have a little camp fire out in the garden before they go to bed and they love it. They have a blank piece of folded cardboard that they call the 'story book', that gets passed around the fire and everyone has to make up a story from it to read out.

Keep the ideas coming.... some good ones so far.

My almost 6 year old navigator can't live without his bike. Easy to put on roof racks, or a bike rack. Hours of fun. Much better than computer games.

Enjoy,

Ken

When our two kids were primary school age they each had a small bag with a drawstring specifically to store the little things they collected on trips.
The range of things they found worth collecting was incredible - shells, stones, bark, leaves, seeds, feathers, bones, bits of resin, ochre, various unidentifiable objects etc
Their day's collections often made for interesting discussions around the fire after tea

Take some baking powder, alfoil, vinegar and a couple of 35mm film canisters.

Put half a teaspoon of baking powder into a 5cm square piece of alfoil and wrap lightly. Put into bottom of film canister, pour in vinegar, fit lid and turn upside down. Watch the canister take off like a rocket.

My kids like it.

Put half a teaspoon of baking powder into a 5cm square piece of alfoil and wrap lightly. Put into bottom of film canister, pour in vinegar, fit lid and turn upside down. Watch the canister take off like a rocket.

I like your thinking

It's a bit like lego or mechano... it raises the question of who enjoys it more...the kids or the adults