Hello! Kendra here, from My Insanity.
I’m excited to share something we’ve done to make this summer funner!
The traditional backyard campout! Growing up my family used this activity as the celebration of the last day of school and the signal of the start of summer! We’d pop a huge bowl of popcorn and sleep outside in a tent, telling stories and not getting a lot of sleep.
I will admit that living in Phoenix made me a little nervous to resurrect the tradition with my children. We made sure to do it when Dad was around to guard the tent. We also had to do it earlier in the season, before the serious heat hit.
After setting up the tent, we roasted marshmallows for S’mores over charcoal in our chiminea fire pit. Then snuggled in the tent to watch a movie on the tiny screen of the portable DVD player.
It kind looks like we are in the woods, since we still have the tree stumps on our yard from the fairy party. They worked great for camp chairs.
I think sometimes parents think we have to go places and spend lots of money for our kids to be able to have fun and make memories. And while I love going places (not so much spending money), I think my kids enjoy something like this at least as much!
I’ve made a little bingo game that you can use for your backyard or real camping adventures. The twist is that the kids are looking to find the various objects and attach them to their card get “Bingo” (I’d recommend strong glue dots, or you could just tape them down with scotch tape). If you don’t have all of these things in your yard, you could just give a prize to the child that finds the most of them in the allotted time.
Click on the image to save or print it at full-size. These are the same bingo cards with different titles so you can choose what you want to use which ever adventure (camping or exploring your own backyard) applies best for your family.
Thanks, Mique for having me as a guest again!
Hope you all have your fair share of fun this summer!
Fun idea Kendra! I love the bingo cards- we kids would have a blast with those!
Thank you for the Camping Bingo cards. We’re going to use them at our family reunion this weekend!
What a great activity for my grandkids. They will love it. Thanks so much.
Thank you for sharing your outdoor bingo. It looks fun!
LOVE the backyard camping idea! The bingo cards are adorable!! Thanks for the sweet ideas.