Camping activities to keep your little campers busy in campsite.

Camping activities to keep your little campers busy

There are times when camping with kids that you just need them to keep themselves busy.  Like trying to cook on a hot fire.  I took a trip to the dollar store and found things around our house for our four kids to do when we are camping when not out exploring.

1. I filled a shoebox with books. This is great to have them sit and page through the books in their beds for a little quiet time..

 2. Make your own look and find jar.  I put things I had around the house such as pom poms, plastic bugs, beads, and popsicle sticks.

 3. We had this small foldable train track and a few engines, perfect for camping.

4. Mr. Potato head!  All his parts fit inside so great for camping.

5. Puppets!!!  Our kids had a ball putting on a puppet show for us.  The kids also love watching a puppet show. Lots and lots of laughs.

6. Make some patterns with Legos that they must complete.

 7.  Got this little basket at the dollar store, great for keeping all our bags together.

 8. For each of my children I made up a "Monster" bag.  I added: pom poms, glue, wiggle eyes, feathers, and a tp tube.  Then I asked them all to make the tube into a monster.

 9. My kids love to have there own "stuff" so I made a bin of random stuff for each kid.  Found all of this at dollar store.  Stickers, sun glasses, a bug bucket, glow stick, and net.

 10. Using another tp tube (I never throw these away and I have family members saving for me)  Write all of the letters of alphabet.  Then do the same on a sheet of stickers.  Have your child match them up.

11.  More handy stuff to buy from dollar store!  Bubbles, Play dough, balloons, frisbee, markers, and alphabet activity book.  The biggest score from this stuff was the play dough. It was only one dollar so we let the kids use it on the picnic table while we were cooking our meals. It got gross and we didn't mind tossing it after the weekend.  The kids got some acorn shells and made imprints in it so on...

12. Sorting beads.  I thought this one would have been their least favorite, but boy was I wrong.   This was my 6, 4, and 2 year old favorite thing to do.  They actually did it a few times in one trip they liked it so much. My oldest got the idea after sorting to make me a bracelet using the beads and pipecleaner. 

She was not really "sorting" but it still kept her busy!  

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