Camping Out Ideas
summer camping with kids any ideas pls !!!!!!!!!!?
hi, i will be camping with kids this summer of age groups 4 - 9. pls help me with games, songs and some creative ideas.so that, i won't get them bohred. whatever sugg. u give helps me. it's my first time camping with kids. i hope they won't scare me or do something silly. pls help me!!!!!!!! thxs much.
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- Why don't you do some activities that promote learning?? Show the older ones how to build a fire. . .and the younger ones could be gathering the sticks. Show them how to fish without a fishing pole(if you need help, ask your husband or someone you know who likes to fish) Show them what's good to eat in the forrest, and what isn't good to eat. If you need help with that as well, they have plenty of resources at your local library. Make sure you take the books with you. Show them how to track animals and such. This way, they would know if a larger animal was in ther area. At night, when the fire is built, roast some smores, and tell some ghost stories(if they can sit still). Just make something up. Kids are gullable. LOL Hope that helps hun. . . Also, it wouldn't hurt to do some google ing on some more activities. Good luck!
- - Fly kites - Bring a playground ball and you can play kickball or four-square. - Super soaker guns - Bubbles and bubble wands. Get a variety, including the big giant 9" diameter bubble wants to blow huge bubbles. - Butterfly net to collect bugs and fireflies. Have a jar or clear plastic container with some air holes punched in it to put your bugs while you study them. Release the bugs back into the wild when you are done looking at them. - Have a scavenger hunt to look for various items. - Glowsticks. I personally prefer the great big ones that you wear on a lanyard around your neck because they last and last. The small glowsticks that come with connectors that you can use to make bracelets and necklaces are fun but the glow typically fades fairly quickly so if you go that route be sure to pack extras. - Flashlights. Kids can have an extraordinary amount of fun with just a simple flashlight. If you cut up some Saran Wrap into squares that are larger than the diameter of the flashlight, color the Saran Wrap with some magic marker and then put it over the flashlight and secure it with a rubber band you can create colored "light sabers" and the kids can have a Star Wars duel. - Have the kids try to find the North Star at night. Bring a star chart and help them find some planets or constellations. Bring binoculars (or a telescope if you have one) and let them get a good view of the moon. - Find some place that sells little, cheap plastic magnifying glasses and give them to the kids and have them check out ants, bugs, spiders, leaves, lichen, or anything else. You might want to get an extra because you know that at least one of the kids will lose/misplace theirs. If it ends up raining, you will want to have some things to keep the kids occupied while they're cooped up indoors. - Card games - Candyland - Some books to read, - Some of those activity books with pages to color and dot-to-dots and stuff (be sure to pack some pencils, crayons and markers!). - Maybe some sort of craft thing to do (make a pony bead bracelet, read the kids a story then have them use various materials -- modeling clay, craft foam, etc. - to create a scene from the story. - Beanbags. You can make some out of squares of old cloth. Sew the sides together so only a small hole remains, turn it inside out and fill it with kidney beans or rice then finish sewing it shut. Lots of fun to toss around, try to learn to juggle, play "dodgeball", try to hit a target with them, etc. For songs, my kids enjoy the Veggie Tales Campfire Sing-A-Long available from veggietales.com or at your local Christian bookstore. Doing a google search for "campfire songs" should turn up a few thousand sites with words to your favorite campfire song. If you don't know the tunes that go with the words, you can sometimes find sites where they have some recordings of the songs/music so you can hear the melody. Have fun!!!
- I was having this problem cause we're taking our 5 year old niece. I've came up with water colors, paper, crayons, markers, scissors, books, glue. I figure collect leaves and pine cones and glue them to paper. Wal Mart has a 9n1 game set. Bring a ball. Do smores. Bubbles. Go out looking for bugs and critters, scavenger hunt, look up at the stars and even the clouds and find shapes in them. If your at a fishing hole, go fishing.
