16 Best Camping Games for Families and Kids

One of the most enjoyable parts in camping trips is the games part. If you need some ideas and activities for camping, these games will be suitable for your children and your family to increase the fun and bonding between family members. There are several individual and group games that you can do while camping. 

The games during camping are divided into outdoor activities and games inside the tent. We will mention a large number of these games that will be suitable for all your family members. 

INDOOR GAMES TO PLAY WHILE CAMPING

CARD GAMES

Card games of all kinds help to relax after a long day of camping and help to increase the concentration and development of memory in children.

Among the most popular card games are:

• Uno
• Go Fish
• Crazy Eights
• Speed
• Matching
• Old Maid
• Rummy
• Slapjack
• Phase 10

Note the game must be suitable for the age group of children, as there are games for groups of children older than your children. 

SPOONS

SPOONS is a card game, but it requires more concentration and thinking than Uno and Go Fish.

To start playing the game, you need a large table so that several players can be seated comfortably, playing cards as well as plastic or metal spoons for everyone, except for one player.

How to play?

1. Plastic spoons should be placed in the middle of the table for each player to get one.
2. Deal out four playing cards to the players.
3. The goal of this game is to collect four identical cards, but each person has four cards in their hands. The game starts with the dealer looking at the next card in the group and deciding to keep it or pass it to the player to his left. If he kept the card, he would deal out another card to the player on the left.
4. The game continues in this way, the player on the left does the same, and the cards are dealt out in a circular motion until reaching the dealer again, or one of the players collects four cards of the same kind.
5. When a player gets four cards of the same suit, he tries to get a spoon quickly.
6. When a player collects four cards of the same suit, the other players must take the spoons regardless of what cards they hold if they notice the player who collected four identical cards. 
7. The round ends until finishing all spoons. Play continues until one winner comes out. 

CHARADES

Charades are one of the fun games that make people laugh.

How to play it? You have to write the names of cartoon characters, movies, series, phrases for famous people, or part from songs on scraps of paper and then fold them.

After that, throw the papers into a bowl. Choose one of those papers and represent what is written without using a sound. 

CUP STACKING

There is a solution for those cups that were used by playing the game Cup Stacking. The cups can be used in several stacking games.

How to play it? Each person chooses a surface then they are asked to build the tallest tower possible from those cups. Teams of several people can be formed and compete with each other to install and dismantle cup towers faster. 

The cups can also be used to play other games such as indoor bowling or mini-golf. 

TRIVIA

TRIVIA can be adapted to be suitable for different age groups. You can play TRIVIA to compete among family members during camping so that the winner will be the one who reaps the biggest number of points.

The TRIVIA give children information about camping. 

The TRIVIA game can be used to give children information about camping

1. Types of tents and the purpose of each.
2. Camping tips and how to stay safe while camping.
3. Clarify the names of the constellations.
4. Camping equipment and how to use it.
5. Some principles of camping.
6. Wildlife safety.
7. Lyrics of camping songs.
8. Clarify the types of plants and trees and warn against harmful and poisonous ones.

Simon Says

Although this game commits to specific rules, it is considered one of the entertaining games for children. It is also a significant game for children because it increases awareness, motor development and sequencing skills.

Some commands that make this game more entertaining and entertaining: 

Creative 

Encourage creativity by setting commands such as Simon says, sing your favourite song in a certain way, Simon says, Solve a specific problem creatively. 

Physical:

Encourage the children to move, such as Simon says, “Wrap a round” Simon says, “Dance.” 

Directional:

Encourage the children to differentiate between directions, such as Simon says, touch your right knee with your left hand, shake hands with your friend with your left hand. 

Complex:

To increase the difficulty of this game, put some complex commands, such as Simon says, clap your hands and then jump, Simon says solve a math problem.

Story Time

It is an entertaining game, full of cooperation between family members. The game depends on creating a story. It begins with the first player who puts or writes some lines from a story inspired by his imagination, preferably realistic, and then the next person completes it until the ending of the story. 

Shadow Hand Puppets 

It is an entertaining game. It’s an individual game, as you make all kinds of animals, birds and shapes through the shade and display them on your tent, and you only need to use your hands and a lamp. 

OUTDOOR CAMPING GAMES

FRISBEE

FRISBEE is an outdoor game. It is one of the most enjoyable and loved by everyone because it is easy to play for everyone, and a large number of players can be involved in this game, and there are many ways that you can play this game.

Among the most famous of these forms of the game:

• Tic-tac-toss: You have to use 12 plates for this game, you can create a tic-tac-toe board on the tablecloth, use the plates instead of using X and O marks, and all you have to do is throw the FRISBEE into the square you have chosen.
• Bowling: Set up a tower of plastic cups or use plastic bottles and stand at a specific distance that the game judge can choose, and then throw a plate of Frisbee on these cups to bring them down.
• KanJam: It is a medium-difficulty game of UFO games, and to play the game correctly, all you have to do is bring two boxes and put them several feet apart and divide them into two teams. Each team of the two teams must put these UFOs in the box while the other team tries to modify the course of Dishes to put in the box.
• Free throw: This game is the most famous of all, and it is played by all ages, from the old to the young, and it is the free throw of the flying disc. You can even participate with your dog in this game with ease if you want.

RINGTOSS

It is one of the most famous carnival games. It is a fun and highly competitive game, which increases the enthusiasm among family members. All you need for this game are some empty bottles and use the juice and soda bottles you have, and you can give the winner a bottle of juice that he throws in the ring.

To create your game loops, all you need is:

1. Durable rope.
2. Glue and a glue gun.
3. Ribbon for decoration
4. Sharp scissors and knives.

Use scissors to cut the cord to the appropriate length to make a ring suitable for your bottles, and then apply hot glue to both ends of the rope to secure the ends together. These rings can be shaped with at least ten rings that are made to start this game.

CAPTURE THE FLAG

CAPTURE THE FLAG is one of the most suitable games for camping trips because it is a game that children and adults can share to play, and it is a way to enhance physical fitness and teamwork among family members.

 how to play:

1. Prepare the playing area by dividing it into two separate and equal playing areas and remove any dangers of stumbling during play. The two playing areas must be different from each other.
2. Divide the players into two teams of equal numbers, and each team must hide its flag in a place within its area, making sure that a small part of the flag appears.
3. Players from each team have to work to find and retrieve the flag of the opposing team.
4. Members from both teams can be frozen by the leader of the opposing team. The member can be unfrozen after a while or by performing a specific task and succeeding in it.
5. The team that picks up the flag first and brings it to its land is the winning team.
6. If the space is huge, you can form more than two teams.

WATER BALLOONS

If the weather is hot, you can enjoy this game, and there are a large number of water balloon games that you can do while camping. You can choose from among them, depending on the age of the group which you have and the size of the place. 

We are going to give you some of these options that you can make:

• Water balloon fight: You can play this game on two sides. You can play it by each player alone about you form teams to play, and it is a fun game. You will have a great time playing this game.
• Hit the target: You can create a target and put it either on a wooden board or on the grass. And make each player shoot at that target or hit near the target. The water balloons can be placed on the board and hung. These balloons are thrown with arrows.
• Relay race: Have the young children stand up in a row, and then have them take turns rolling their balloons across the grass and seeing who can throw the balloons the farthest without the balloon popping.

After completing these games, collect the parts of the balloons that have exploded.

Squirt Gun Races

Place a set of empty plastic cups on the edge of your table, fill the spray gun with water, and spray the empty cups until they fall off the edge of the table.

You can play it with multiple players, and the winner of this game is the one who drops the biggest number of empty plastic cups. A time can also be set for this game to increase the excitement and enthusiasm among the players.

Flashlight Tag

It is a fun game for camping nights after it gets dark. You can play this game, give the scout to someone after the lottery, and then have him put the lamplight on a player he chooses. And the person who spots the light on it goes out to search and catch the rest of the players until you finish. This game can set a time for this player to complete the task.

Sleeping Bag Race

It is one of the most popular and widespread games on camping trips, all you have to do is use sleeping bags or burlap bags that you have to play, we choose who wants to play in this game, and then wear this bag on his feet and there are several competitors and the competitor’s race and whoever arrives first will be the winner of this game.

Dreamcatchers

One of the quietest activities on camping trips, and this activity provides some quiet time and family members can make dream catchers and hang them on their tents. And after the trip is finished, they are taken to their homes as souvenirs.

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