Cool Family-Friendly Home Camping Ideas for Kids

While outdoor camping is loads of fun, you can have an incredible camping experience right in your home by turning your backyard or terrace into a personal campsite for your kids. Experience an epic summer vacation building campfires and pitching tents. How about cooking some delicious snacks while storytelling to kids?

Cool Home Camping Ideas for Kids and Parents

Here are some fantastic family-friendly home camping ideas for kids to enjoy these summer holidays:

1) Pitch a tent in your backyard or terrace for some fun time

You can either do it the usual way of grabbing a camping tent and popping it open. Or you can get creative and build an adorable teepee to enjoy a fascinating time out with your kids. How about reading some storybooks sitting in your lovely newly made tent house?

Spark up your camping tent with string lights for a more magical experience. Make some bug bombs to repel mosquitoes and pesky bugs.

2) Setting up a firepit

Fire Pit for Home camping ideas

Camping is never complete without a bonfire. However, to keep the flames contained safely, you require a flagstone fire pit. Spend some time analyzing ideas about how to create a sturdy fire pit for your campfire to keep yourself and your kids warm.

Once the fire pit is all set, you can get it ready to cook some delicious campfire dessert treats for your bundles of joy. Complement your scrumptious snacks with refreshing mocktails and beverages.

3) Stargazing with family and friends

Nothing looks more beautiful than a starlit sky. Stargazing is even more intriguing when you are lying down with your loved ones, spotting out major constellations. Make a list of some popular, easy-to-spot constellations for starters and have a flabbergasting indoor camping experience with family and friends.

4) Plan a scavenger hunt

How many times do we walk through the gardens but forget to admire nature around us? Home camping ideas for kids, like planning a scavenger hunt, can help you re-instate their love for nature. You can make a list of specific insects, flowers, leaves, or trees that they can spot in the backyard.

You can also hide small items to test their observatory skills. How about searching for some icky bugs hiding underneath rocks or in crevices? Catch some fireflies and put them in a mason jar for an incredible light show.

5) Spark the creative side of your kids with nature rubbing

You can give an instant boost to their creative instincts by planning a session of nature rubbing during indoor camping. Grab a leaf with an interesting pattern, place it on a flat surface, cover it with a piece of white paper, and rub your crayon over the leaf lengthwise.

You can also pick some leaves and flowers to press them into a book as memorable keepsakes to remind you of your fascinating backyard camping adventure.

6) Play a backyard game

Play fun indoor games during home camping such as board games, charade, and nature bingo. Moreover, you can also try out some backyard games such as glow-in-the-dark ring toss, badminton, frisbee, croquet, and much more.

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7) Watch a camp-themed movie

Watching a movie on a big screen is always fun. You can use a canvas drop cloth or a white bedsheet to create a big screen for your exciting movie night on the patio. Throw some pillows and spread out a blanket outside your tent to create the perfect backdrop for a camp-themed movie. Your kids will love it and remember the experience for a lifetime.

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