Camp Out!: The Ultimate Kids' Guide from the Backyard to the Backwoods

by Lynn Brunelle

Book Overview

Bear bags, wilderness showers, and telling the temperature by counting the cricket chirps...

Whether you're planning an over night in the backyard or a weekend in the wilderness, this book is packed with stuff to know. The basics, from gearing up to choosing a site to building a tarp tent. Tasty outdoor recipes: Solar Oven Pizza, Chow Down Chili and s' more's of course--with 8 variations.

Plus: how to keep a Field Journal, exploring...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761141227
• ISBN13: 9780761141228
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Workman Publishing
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.0" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 10 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 8

Customer Reviews

Love this book!

We borrowed this book at the library for an upcoming camping trip and decided to purchase it! It is a one-stop book for everything you need to know to camp (back packing, tent, trailer etc.). Safety, meal plans, knots, crafts, activities, star-gazing, trail marking, animal tracking, packing and so much more!! The kids loved looking at it to prepare for our trip. We are looking forward to years of camping with our family, this will be a mainstay on our bookshelves.

Only book you need for kid camping!

This book is awesome! It is chock-full of great ideas! This book covers everything from making all kinds of different knots to identifying animal tracks to outdoor games to the night sky and much, much more. I am helping with a Brownie troop getting ready to do an overnight camping trip and this book has helped tremendously with ideas of activities for the girls. If you can only afford one book--this is it!

Wish I had this book when I was a kid!

Camp Out! is full of creative and informative lessons and fun activities. Truly a unique book. Any kid from video game addict to natural born scout will find this book engaging! it contains kid-level explanations without talking down to kid-level. As an adult I enjoyed reading this book and felt the cartoons weren't too cutesy. Good for both boys and girls.

Dirty shoes build smart brains.

This is a great book that will spark many wonderful experiences with my daughter. For sure 5 stars!! Major sections include activities, crafts, nature, and cooking. This was a logical organization, but as the father of a younger child I think it would have been nice to have some guidance and organization by age appropriateness.