If your child or children have a summer time birthday party having a camping themed party can be a fun and inexpensive way to celebrate. It’s a great non-gender theme and can be easily and affordably tailored for your child’s likes and interests. You won’t need to spend a lot of money renting space – your backyard or a local park could be the location. Imagine all the great pictures you can add to your web photo albums!
Invitations
There are many ways you could create invitations from a plain off the rack style simply stating time and place to something more elaborated like one designed to look like a tent or star. Within the idea of camping there are plenty of sub-themes like tents, stars and moons, campfires, or food to name a few.
The Tent
The central theme around any campout is the tent. Set up a large tent to be the center of activity. This is where the eating happens. You can set up food stations and craft stations under the big tent. But kids will want to play in a tent too. Either pick up several tents from garage sales or why not have kids build their own tents? Pull out all the extra sheets and blankets you have along with chairs and other items to build fort tents. Outdoor pillows, blankets, or even carpet remnants make great ground cover. Make it into a game and place the kids into teams to see which will build their tent first.
Activities
Traditional outdoor games like bean bag toss and sack races are always a lot of fun for all ages. You could also design and decorate pillow cases with fabric paint or tie dye. What activities you choose to do may depend somewhat on the age of the children playing. If the weather is warm and you sent notice to parents add a water element into the fun. Set up a slip and slide or have a water balloon toss. Small wading pools can be great fun for younger kids and no matter what age children are sprinklers are always lots of fun.
The Food
If you’re wary of having a campfire with lots of kids around set up your grill in an “off limits” area for the kids. Grill out hamburgers and hot dogs. You can have the children take turns, supervised to roast their marshmallows over the grill. Have chocolate bars and graham crackers ready for s’mores! Another food idea is walking tacos. Buy small bags of corn chips and have all the ingredients for traditional tacos set up in a buffet. Each child gets a bag of chips and adds their desired ingredients to the chips and then eats right out of the bag!
Be sure to take plenty of pictures through the event and upload them to a special web photo album. After the party send children home with the link to the pictures. This way parents can decide which images they would like to have or share.
Invitations
There are many ways you could create invitations from a plain off the rack style simply stating time and place to something more elaborated like one designed to look like a tent or star. Within the idea of camping there are plenty of sub-themes like tents, stars and moons, campfires, or food to name a few.
The Tent
The central theme around any campout is the tent. Set up a large tent to be the center of activity. This is where the eating happens. You can set up food stations and craft stations under the big tent. But kids will want to play in a tent too. Either pick up several tents from garage sales or why not have kids build their own tents? Pull out all the extra sheets and blankets you have along with chairs and other items to build fort tents. Outdoor pillows, blankets, or even carpet remnants make great ground cover. Make it into a game and place the kids into teams to see which will build their tent first.
Activities
Traditional outdoor games like bean bag toss and sack races are always a lot of fun for all ages. You could also design and decorate pillow cases with fabric paint or tie dye. What activities you choose to do may depend somewhat on the age of the children playing. If the weather is warm and you sent notice to parents add a water element into the fun. Set up a slip and slide or have a water balloon toss. Small wading pools can be great fun for younger kids and no matter what age children are sprinklers are always lots of fun.
The Food
If you’re wary of having a campfire with lots of kids around set up your grill in an “off limits” area for the kids. Grill out hamburgers and hot dogs. You can have the children take turns, supervised to roast their marshmallows over the grill. Have chocolate bars and graham crackers ready for s’mores! Another food idea is walking tacos. Buy small bags of corn chips and have all the ingredients for traditional tacos set up in a buffet. Each child gets a bag of chips and adds their desired ingredients to the chips and then eats right out of the bag!
Be sure to take plenty of pictures through the event and upload them to a special web photo album. After the party send children home with the link to the pictures. This way parents can decide which images they would like to have or share.
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