Summertime is the perfect time to get your family together for a camping adventure that includes lots of camping games!
Camping is an affordable vacation that allows you and your family to “unplug,” enjoy the beauty of nature, work together as a team, and get some amazing quality time together. I have so many wonderful memories of camping as a child, especially of sitting around the fire at night singing songs, playing games, and talking with my family and friends. If you are gearing up for a camping trip of your own, we have some awesome (and free) printable camping games that you can take along with you to make your adventure even more fun!
Here is a detailed description of each of the camping games included in the free printable. See the end of this post to request the printable pack.
Camping Game – Campfire Tale Card Game
This teamwork-based game turns the classic campfire story into a fun challenge wherein players work together to create a story in 3 minutes. Going around in a circle, each player draws a card with an image on it that he or she then has to incorporate into the progressing story! The pictures on the cards make this game perfect for players of all ages, even non-readers! This game will get your creative juices flowing and, more than likely, result in some pretty silly stories and laughter.
This camping game puts a camping twist on the classic categorization game! Older children and adults will enjoy the competition and challenge of naming as many items as possible that fit the given category (as well as the letter rolled with the alphabet die). We have everything you need to print for this game included in the link below, just don’t forget your pencils and alphabet die.
Camping Games – Summer Camping Bingo
While you can play this camping-inspired Bingo a couple of different ways, my favorite way is to show each member of the camping trip the Bingo page at the beginning of the trip, and then wait to play actually Bingo until the last night of the trip. That way it ends up being like a scavenger hunt, where the winner will likely be the person who has worked his or her way through this classic list of “must-do” camping activities!
Camping Games – “Go Camping” Printable Card Game
This camping-themed version of “Go Fish” will be a hit with children of most ages! We’re giving you the cards to print and cut out. You can laminate them too, to make them extra durable.
amping Games – Camping Trip Charades
Charades is always a good game to get the party going! We’re giving you some fun camping-themed prompts to get the fun started. Bring along something to pull the ideas out of (like a hat) and a timer (AKA cell phone!). This game is great for most ages!
Camping Games – Camping Taboo
The game of creative description, this camping-themed version of Taboo will have everyone thinking of new ways to describe simple things! Remember: you can’t use the words on the card and no rhyming allowed! This game will be the most fun for children who are comfortable readers (and adults, too, of course!).
Camping Games – Camping Eye Spy
Eye Spy is a great game for children of any age (even those as young as 2 or 3). This camping-inspired version will prompt you and your campers to search for things that might be hiding nearby! We hope these camping games add even more fun and creativity to your next outdoor adventure! We’d love to know if you use them while camping and if you put your own twist on any of them. Also, if you take any cool photos of your family’s camping adventure (or of playing games on your camping adventure), you can always share by tagging us on social media (#hiphomeschoolmoms)! We love to know what people in our Hip Homeschool Moms Community are up to!
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These are awesome games to play while camping! Thank you so much for sharing these, I will definitely be pinning this to use later. We plan on going camping soon and this will be great for out 10, 6 and 5 year old.
Sounds like fun games. I have never been camping.
This would be great for any trip!
Sounds fun. I grew up camping. Nature was like a playground. 🙂
These are such cute ideas!
What cute ideas! I’m saving for next time!!
These games sound like so much fun. Great for family bonding while camping!
Thanks for sharing so many fun activities!
You’re welcome! We hope you love them!
These are great for the kids, thank you
You’re welcome! We hope you enjoy them!
These are all awsome. Can’t wait to give them a try! Thank you so much for sharing!
Definitely using these next time we go camping! Thanks for sharing a free resource to make our camping trips even more fun!
I can’t wait to use these! Thank you!
Thank you for this. We go camping several times a year, and it’s always nice to have a few new ideas to try!
So many great ideas! Our family loves camping and these will make it even more fun! Thanks for sharing!!
These games will be perfect for camping with our boys. Thank you!
What fun ideas!! We just got back from our first camping trip! I will definitely be saving these for next time! Thanks for sharing!!
Sounds like so much fun! Adding to my list!!! ❤️
My girls would love some of these games! We may even have to play camping at home and use the games sooner.
These look really fun! I definitely want to play some of these!
Here in southern Florida, winter is the best time to camp and homeschooling will make that much easier! My daughter is seven and has never been camping, even though it’s something she has always wanted to do. When she was six months old, she was diagnosed with a catastrophic childhood illness and spent the next six years on medications that had to be kept at a specific temperature, so being without a refrigerator was not an option. She has been medication free for nearly a year now and has not relapsed…so we are going to celebrate with a camping trip this winter. Thanks so much for these printable games; they’ll help to make her long awaited trip even more memorable 😊
Love the game ideas! I have a tent that I haven’t even used yet maybe I can talk my teen into going camping with me!
My kids will love these! We camp every year since they were babies and love the outdoors!
These will help to make such fun memories! Wonderful games to play while camping! Thank you!!
How fun! Saving!
These are awesome! We love camping but these games would definelty liven our trips up! Thank you so much ❤️
Love these! Camping is our favorite, we try to do it year-round. Now my kids are getting older I’ll try some of these 😊
Thank you for these great resources! We’ll be taking a camping trip soon and they will be so much fun!
We’re camping in a couple weeks, can’t wait to try these out!
Good ideas! As much camping as we like to do, tbese will come in handy.
Camping is my favorite! These games sound so fun! Perfect way to keep the children happy & entertained!
Thank you for the printables!
My 5 yr old is going on his first camping trip this weekend. These will be perfect.
Fun ideas! I especially like the “go camping (go fish)” idea.
These look like so much fun! Can’t wait to try them
Looks like a lot of fun! Thank you.
Thank you for sharing this
What a great idea! I am looking forward to using these on our next camping trip!
Thank you! I love it that these are appropriate for all ages.