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Lonely Planet Kids Create Your Own Camping Activities

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Create Your Own Camping Activities, the follow-up to Lonely Planet Kids' Create Your Own Vacation Games, is packed with over 80 ideas for the best camping games, crafts, and activities. There are suggestions for fun things to do throughout the entire trip, whether you're in the... Read More
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Create Your Own Camping Activities, the follow-up to Lonely Planet Kids' Create Your Own Vacation Games, is packed with over 80 ideas for the best camping games, crafts, and activities. There are suggestions for fun things to do throughout the entire trip, whether you're in the tent or on the road, around the campfire or at the picnic table, as well as tips for exploring nature in and around the campground. With plenty of photos and step-by-step instructions, there are games to entertain the whole family, activities just for kids, things to do outside, and ideas for cold and rainy days.

Written by Laura Baker and accompanied by fun illustrations by Sean Sims, this book can be used wherever and whenever your family goes camping. All you need is your imagination and things that can be found around the campsite (or basic craft items like paper, pens, and glue).

Inside Create Your Own Camping Activities:

  • Basic guide to camping: From what equipment you'll need to pack, to setting up your tent and exploring the area around you.
  • Camping games and activities: Make your own campground treasure hunt, campground obstacle course, lawn games, sleeping bag races.
  • Camping crafts: Create a nature collage, make camping hats with leaves and twigs, nature paintings, stick mazes.
  • Exploring the great outdoors: Tree climbing, create your own nature journal, nature scavenger hunt, make nature rubbings, using field guides to find rocks, plants, and animals, listening out for creatures at night.
  • Camping survival skills: Building your own shelter, going fishing, foraging for food, orienteering (reading a map and a compass), building your own campfire or pizza box solar oven (fully supervised!), Morse-code messages.
  • Around the campfire: Camp-style cooking (toasting marshmallows, making s'mores), campfire games, stargazing, campfire songs and stories.

About Lonely Planet Kids:

Lonely Planet Kids, an imprint of the world's leading travel authority Lonely Planet, published its first book in 2011. Over the past 45 years, Lonely Planet has grown a dedicated global community of travellers, many of whom are now sharing a passion for exploration with their children. Lonely Planet Kids educates and encourages young readers at home and in school to learn about the world with engaging books on culture, sociology, geography, nature, history, space, and more. We want to inspire the next generation of global citizens and help kids and their parents to approach life in a way that makes every day an adventure. Come explore!

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