Are you gearing up for some family camping adventures in 2023 and wondering how to make the experience even more exciting for your little adventurers? Look no further! In this blog post, we’ve compiled a list of 15 fun camping gifts for kids that they will absolutely love.
Whether you’re planning a weekend getaway in the wilderness or embarking on a summer-long camping expedition, these carefully selected items will not only keep your kids engaged but also ignite their passion for the great outdoors.
From cool gadgets to creative gear, we’ve got your young campers covered, ensuring they have the time of their lives in the great outdoors. This list contains the best gifts to make your camping trip unforgettable for your outdoor-loving kiddos.
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1. Pocket Survival Kit
Your outdoor loving kids will love this pocket survival guide. It has everything they need to explore the outdoors! We would recommend that this kit be for your older kids but they will love it.
2. Bushcraft Book for Kids
This bushcraft book for kids is filled with great survival skills for kids! They’ll learn how to build the perfect fire, build all types of shelters, how to navigate their way through all types of terrain, how to forage for food, how to identify all types of plants and animals, and how to live the bushcraft way of life. And the best thing of all? They’ll have an absolute blast doing it!
We think this book would make a great gift for all kids.
3. Huckleberry Cable Transport
If your kids have a treehouse, this would make the perfect gift. It’s a Huckleberry Cable Transport. They can use it to lower things up and down from a tree to the ground or a treehouse to the ground.
4. Hiking Logbook
This hiking logbook can help your kids keep track of all their outdoor adventures. They can log notes from the trail, what they encountered and so much more.
Any older kiddo would be able to record adventures while they are spending time outdoors.
5. Outdoor Game Call for Kids
This Hoot and Hollar game call makes real animal sounds. Your kids are going to love calling for animals in the wild. It makes 9 different animal sounds!
6. Headlamps for Kids
These headlamps are the perfect stocking stuffer gift your kids of all ages. When we camp, mine play hide and seek around the campsite at night and also enjoy night fishing.
They both have their own headlamp so they can do things hands-free while being able to see what’s going on.
7. Hammock
There is no better gift for a camping kid than a hammock! Both of my kids enjoy lounging around the campsite in their hammocks. Even the grownups enjoy the hammocks! This one comes with the straps and hooks so you will have everything you need!
8. Outdoor Waterbottle
My kids love to customize their outdoor water bottle with stickers from the campgrounds we go to. We also bring our own water when we camp (inside our water cooler), so both of my kids having their own water bottles makes it easier at the campground and we make less trash from disposable water bottles. (sustainability!)
9. Kids Microscope
The Celestron Kids Pocket Zoom Microscope is a great tool for curious kids to explore the hidden world around them. With its portable pocket size, it’s the lab you can carry with you.
Now you can examine microscopic objects anytime, any place! It zooms from 60x to 120x the actual size of your specimen creating new and detailed views. Let your child explore the world as a Celestron Kid and watch the magic unfold.
10. Walkie-Talkies
We love that our kids own Walkie Talkies, especially at the campground. They can play and keep in touch with us. They sometimes ride around on bicycles so they take a walkie-talkie with them.
11. Night Vision Glasses
What kid wouldn’t love to own a pair of night vision glasses. They can explore the campsite at night and still be able to see. How cool would that be?
12. Glow Sticks
Let’s face it…glow sticks are just cool. This would make a great stocking stuffer for your kids to take camping!!
13. Marshmallow Roasting Sticks
These glow in the dark marshmallow roasting sticks are a must have for all campground kids. You can’t have a camping trip without a s’more! If we ever go camping without them, we are in trouble.
Get your kids their own roasting sticks that are easy to use, glow in the dark and can be stored in their own bag so they don’t take up too much space!
14. Campfire Story Dice
We think these campfire story dice would make a neat stocking stuffer gift for your kids to take camping. These dice can be used around the campfire to help prompt a story. Just think of all the funny things your kids will come up with when they use these.
15. Croc Headlights
This very unique gift is just hilarious. My 9 year old loves his crocs and croc headlights make the perfect accessory. What kid wouldn’t want to have their own headlights when they walk around at night!
16. Stick-lets Fort Building Set
The 18-piece Mega Fort Set will kick-start your imagination as you engage with Mother Nature. sticklets patented stretchy connectors will help you create a world of wonder and fun on your next adventure.
Build large or small structures with natural materials gathered from the outdoors. Ideal for fort building, camping, classroom projects, team building, maker spaces, gardening, and more.
17. Metal Detector
Any outdoor kid will love having a metal detector. My kids really enjoyed all the little “prizes” they found when they used it in the woods.
If you enjoyed this post, you will love our camping games that we came up with for all kids to play when they camp.
You also need to see our fall camping tips, and if this is your first camping adventure, you will love our tent camping guide.
