Free Printable Campfire Games for Kids & Families
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Camping becomes even more fun when kids have engaging games to enjoy together. These printable campfire games are designed for 5 to 8 year olds and include a camping word search, camping themed charades, and camping themed Don’t Eat Pete.
Bring them along for family camping trips or use them during classroom camping theme units for an entertaining break that also encourages teamwork, problem solving, and vocabulary practice.
Kids who can’t get enough camping fun will also enjoy our other camping activities for kids. You’ll find lots of ideas to keep your little campers busy at home, in the classroom, or around the campsite.
Inside this campfire game set, we’ve included a camping word search, camping themed charades, and camping themed Don’t Eat Pete. These activities are perfect for younger children in preschool, kindergarten, and early elementary school.
Camping Don’t Eat Pete
If you’ve never played Don’t Eat Pete, you’re in for a treat! Literally, that is. In this game, one member of the family goes out of earshot and waits for the rest of the the family to gather around the Don’t Eat Pete printable and choose an object to be “Pete”.
Next, you place a sweet treat (think M&M’s or mini marshmallows) on each of the spaces of the printable. The person who is “it” comes back and begins to eat the treat off each of the spaces. When the “it” person grabs the space designated as “Pete”, the family shouts, “Don’t Eat Pete” and that round is over.
The person who gets to eat the most treats is the winner. You can repeat this game over and over (and believe me, the kids will want to!).
Camping Word Search
This printable camping word search is perfect for elementary children. We’ve included common camping terms like backpack, map, and nature.
Since we’ve geared this set towards younger children, all of the words to find are written forwards and there are no diagonal words. If you have younger kids, have older siblings help the littles find and circle the words.
Camping Charades
This might be our favorite game of all! These camping charade printables are just like the regular charade game except they’re all camping themed!
Simply print out the pages (we’ve included 3 pages for a total of 30 cards), cut them out, and you’re ready to begin.
One member of the family will draw a rectangle and act out the object or action listed on the card.
Wondering what some of the cards have on them? Here’s a sample of what’s included:
- going fishing
- canoeing
- playing a guitar
- snorkeling
- hide and seek
- gather firewoood
- collect fireflies in a jar
- geocaching
Again, we’ve tried to keep these ideas simple so the whole family can play together! Which game will your family want to play first?
Camping Books
The Little Book of Camping- Teach young kids all about what goes into camping with this cute and simple book!
Pete the Cat Goes Camping- This book is great for little readers who love the misadventures of Pete the Cat. Read it before going camping to get the kids excited for their trip!
A Campfire Tail- This sweet book is a great way to talk to kids about empathy and friendship. Kids love the fun illustrations and storyline.
Camping Tent Craft – Kids will build a campsite under the stars by creating a paper tent, trees, a glowing moon, and twinkling stars. Your little campers will practice cutting, gluing, and fine motor skills while making their outdoor scene. It’s a fun activity for camping units, summer afternoons, or getting excited for an upcoming camping adventure.
Pete the Cat Goes Camping Craft – Bring the book, Pete the Cat Goes Camping, to life by making Pete the Cat in his hiking boots and carrying a walking stick! This fun book companion activity has kids create the friendly camping cat and helps strengthen fine motor skills with each step.
Campfire Name Craft – Gather around the campfire that helps kids learn! This personalized campfire is made by arranging the letters of kids’ names on the logs. It’ll give them extra practice spelling their name and recognizing letters. Little campers will enjoy creating a keepsake that’s a fun addition to camping lessons, summer activities, or classroom bulletin boards.
Bear Toilet Paper Roll Craft – Turn an empty toilet paper roll into an adorable bear with this fun recycling activity! Kids will be excited to combine our printable template and a cardboard tube to bring a woodland friend to life. This hands on activity encourages creativity, strengthens fine motor skills, and fits well into camping, forest, or woodland animal themes.
Free Camping Printables
These camping pattern block mats have kids to build familiar outdoor scenes like tents, campfires, backpacks, and other camping favorites with colorful pattern blocks. They’ll strengthen shape recognition skills, spatial awareness, problem solving, and fine motor skills when they’re matching the pieces to the outlines. Use these mats in camping themed lessons, math centers, or quiet time for a hands on activity that blends creativity with early learning.
Have kids practice the pencil movements needed for handwriting with these camping tracing worksheets. Children will trace straight, curved, zigzag, and wavy lines by following fun camping themed paths featuring tents, campfires, sleeping bags, and other outdoor favorites. Completing the pages helps improve fine motor control, hand-eye coordination, pencil grip, and confidence to prepare your students for forming letters, numbers, and words with ease.
These camping preschool printables are packed with engaging activities that keep kiddos busy learning important early developmental skills. Kids will enjoy tracing, counting, matching, patterns, mazes, beginning sounds, letter recognition, and simple math activities all with a fun camping theme. Parents and teachers will appreciate having one printable pack that supports preschool readiness and provides screen free learning for home, school, or camping theme units.
Keep young campers happily learning with these camping activity sheets that are filled with a variety of engaging challenges. Kids will complete mazes, matching activities, counting, and graphing to strengthen fine motor skills, problem solving, visual discrimination, and early math and literacy concepts. Parents and teachers will love adding these printable worksheets to camping units, summer learning, classroom centers, or as something fun to do on the go.
Free Printable Campfire Games
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