Campfire Stories

Scary camping and campfire stories for Kids

Camping and campfire stories for Kids

From scary to funny, a good camping or campfire story can be the highlight of a kid’s camping trip - if they are done right.

The stories below range from slightly spooky or funny for the younger kids, to scary and mysterious for the older young campers.

Camping with Kids - Camping and Campfire Stories:

• The Broom Town Curse - A scary campfire story
Category: Mildly Scary Telling time: 15 - 20 minutes

A semi-scary story about a witches curse and ghostly spirits. The narration is adapted to make the story apply to the campsite and surrounding area you are in.

>>> Read this campfire story

Easy camping games, activities, and ideas:

• Camping with Kids - Activities they can do on their own

Let them play! These in-camp activity suggestions; like playing cards, blowing bubbles, and others, are things kids can do with just a watchful eye from you.

• Hiking and Camping Games and Activities

Scavenger Hunts, Nature’s Bingo, Round-Robin Stories, and more … Hiking and camp activities for kids that do more than just “occupy” them.

• Make a ‘Teepee’ Tent They Can Play In

This camp activity lets them make and decorate a camp teepee they can play in. Easy, cheap, and something camping kids can do themselves with just a little supervision from you.

• Camp Lashing and Woodcraft Projects

Simple and easy lashing projects that you can do with the kids. Give them the pride of saying, “I made that” while they have fun and learn too.

• Bad Weather Survival Kit for Camping with Kids

This “Bad Weather” Survival kit will help maintain everyone’s sanity when bad weather forces kids, (and you), inside a tent or cabin for long periods of time.

Here are some handy resources and pieces of camp gear you might be interested in:

Don’t laugh - think about it first, a Boy Scout Handbook can be one of the most helpful pieces of general camping gear you can have when you are camping with kids!

It is especially helpful to new campers, but can also be handy and useful to experienced campers as well.

This handbook contains easy to understand answers and how-to’s for almost any camping question or situation. Plus, it contains plant and foliage identifications, campsite activity suggestions, woodcraft project suggestions, (with instructions), knot tying tips and instructions, ( a great fill-in for bad weather situations), survival tips, and detailed primary first aid instructions.
Boy Scout Handbook

(ps. You would have to buy several of those other “camping with kids books” to even come close to the useful content of a Scout handbook)

Here are some other samples of camping gear, accessories, and tools, available on Amazon, that will make your outdoor camping trip as fun and enjoyable as you want it to be. And you will be surprised at the value when you see how inexpensive they are when you buy them online.