Top 10 Camping Activities for Kids

The days of camping with nature brings out the best in children. It makes them happy, light and stress-free . How can it not?  Travelling is something that comes naturally for us. We’ve been explorers for as long as we remember back in history. The excitement of camping at new places is just too amazing to be missed. But what do you do when you are going with your family or a group who needs to be engaged in different activities throughout their stay? Well, we here present to you 10 different camping activities that will make your camping near Delhi a wonderful, memorable experience.

And what’s more? We have divided each of them in different headings for you to choose your camping activities according to your group type:

Camping Activities for Girls

1. Arts and Crafts: A classic camping activity for girls that opens up their creative side. In fact, crafting is loved so much around Europe that it’s called girl scouts’ favourite pastime. It’s a healthy game for kids to slow down, interact and build special items out of ordinary things. The most popular activities that young girls like to collaborate on are painting and decorative flower making.
2. Build Outdoor Skills: Where else would those young adults learn how to tie knots and build fires if not at camping? Start with basics, tell them about tents, poles, sun shades, air mattresses, sleeping bags and add new words into their outdoor dictionary.
   

   Mountains

3. Encourage Storytelling: Girls are born storytellers. They have just the right mix of emotion and expressions, and if taught a bit, can easily create interesting narratives. You can also add a bit of fun by making this a group activity – a girl can start the story with one line that sets the scenario. The second one can add characters, the next one can give them personality and son on. A good way to be creative and have fun.
4. Organize Creative Writing Workshops: Camping is a great way to open your children’s minds to creativity in writing. This camping activity can be done once or over a period of time to help girls develop their own powers of expression, critical reading and thinking. We know a freelancer who can happily conduct it for you. You may contact her directly through her website – www.writingroutes.com
5. Orient Interest in More Camping: Plan a series of camping activities that teach your young girls on how to use their sense of direction to know which way is right to hike on. Challenge them to study sun’s direction and match it with their compass to know how to find their way in case they ever lose their path in the wilderness.

Camping Activities for Boys

1. Treasure Hunts: Young boys have so much energy that it sometimes gets difficult to manage them. Depending on your group size, you can organize half or full day treasure hunts in teams and get them going. Pick a theme (mystery, eggs, chocolates, history), plan your clues (you can brainstorm on the ideas with your friends or search online), strategize your route and start the hunt.
2. Bonfires:  Of all the camping activities, bonfires are perhaps the most common, yet exciting ones. A bonfire gives warmth, and brings children closer to each other by the way of sharing stories and other interesting stuff. If your boys like, you can also teach them barbeque and add more colours to those long nights under the stars.
   

   Bonfire

3. Sky Watching: Star gazing has picked up momentum in recent past. You can use the clear sky at camping locations like Offroad to share your astronomical knowledge with your group. They can use common constellations to find the pole star and know which side is north, or watch the changing positions of the moon or see some planets with the naked eye.
4. Martial Arts: So boys like to play a bit rough, huh! Well, if your group is something like this, you can also use our place to thing of a camping activity that teaches them a bit of martial arts. Clean air, top of the mountain and a great team – what more can someone ever ask for on camping?
   

   Martial Arts Training

5. Cook Together: What better way to start the interest in cooking for your boys than camping? Try with small barbeque – teach them how to light it, how to put food stuff on rods and the average time that different food take to roast. You can also introduce them to soup, tea and coffee making to begin with.

So with this, we have come to an end of this post. If you haven’t read our previous on Enjoying the Nature Unspoilt, don’t forget to read and comment on it! Until next time…

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