Making Memories While Camping With The Kids
Many people went camping as children with their parents or grandparents and they made lots of wonderful memories of those trips. Now that you are grown it’s time to take your kids camping and make your own memories. You and your family will have these memories for many years to come. Your children can even share the camp stories with their children.
Before you go camping you have to make sure that you make a check list so that nothing gets left behind. Make sure you put everything you are going to need on that check list such as sleeping bags, tents, fishing poles, food, drinks, flashlights, battery operated lanterns for each tent, first aid kit and of course bug spray and sun block.
You should also plan a simple menu. Hot dogs are a great menu item since they can be roasted over the fire. Soups and stews are also a great menu item since they can also be cooked over a fire.
You also need to pack everything you will need to make smores. You can not have a great camping trip with out having smores. When you are choosing your destination you should consider finding a camp site that has toilets and showers. This will make your trip a lot more sanitary and also keep you from having to wonder through the woods just to go to the bathroom.
Speaking of woods, it is also a good idea to show your children what poison oak and poison ivy look like so that they can stay away from it. It is important that you camp at a local camp ground and not out in the wilderness. If you camp in the wilderness you will have to worry about bears or other big animals.
When you camp at a camp ground you are usually safe from bears or other animals because they try to stay away from all the people that are constantly coming and going.