Backyard Camping

Sara has been asking and asking to go camping, but now that it is November, we've kind of missed the warm weather window of good camping time. Plus, we don't own a tent. Not a real camping tent anyway. The only tent we have is a little child pop-up tent from IKEA. So today after much asking, and because of a somewhat warm Autumn day, I decided to take the girls "camping" in our backyard.

First we gathered the necessary supplies. Rob printed out a little checklist for her with things like a tent, sleeping bag, flashlight, compass, camera, binoculars, fishing pole, etc. We gathered as much as we could, then went outside to setup our little play tent.

Then it was time to make a "fire" out of sticks and a few branches of red leaves from one of the bushes in our yard.

And what do you do at a campfire? Roast marshmallows of course!

After filling up on marshmallows it was time for some nature exploration.

Then back to the campsite for more fun climbing on the log and chairs...

more "sleeping" in the tent...

and eating more marshmallows!

I think the girls liked it. Now we will have to take them real camping sometime! Anyone have a tent we can borrow?!