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A good selection of camping toys can make even the best camping trip even more enjoyable for the kids . . . and it stands to reason that if the kids are happy, Mom and Dad aren’t far behind! Camping toys are all about fresh air fun, forget about video games in the virtual world, camping toys are real toys for real kids to play in the real world . . . and you can’t say that too much these days can you?

• Junior Campsite Explorers – kids love to explore, and camping or hiking trips give them the perfect opportunity to do so. They can have even more fun with a pair of Safari binoculars, their own explorers lantern, torch, compass and whistle. Throw in a microscope and they’ll be able to really get a good look at the little critters who have come along to share their hiking trip as uninvited guests.
• Magnifying glasses – are another great way for kids to identify the bugs on your hiking trip. Combine it with an ID kit and you really have cracked it.
• Budding scientists – are in the right place to get a little “hands on” experience about the ways of the world too. Something like a Sustainable Earth Lab Kit can provide camping kids with everything they need to do a few experiments and really learn about how they can champion the earth . . . and stuff like that lasts forever you know. Today a mud monster . . . tomorrow an Environmental Scientist.
• Let’s Go Fly a Kite – well, if you can’t fly a kite when you’re camping, when can you? Camping and hiking offers the perfect opportunity for you to show your children your long forgotten kite flying skills . . . you have got some kite flying skills, right?

• My Boomerang Won’t Come Back – well, you’re obviously not throwing it properly then. The modern day boomerangs do come back, if you throw them properly, but they don’t necessarily look like the traditional boomerangs from our childhood.

• Water Toys – if there’s one place where you’re allowed to get wet . . . it’s when you’re camping and hiking (except your sleeping bag . . . don’t get that wet). So, what a great place to play with water toys . . . water bombs away . . . .
• Camping Toys for Snow – not many people take their children camping in the snow, but plenty like to go on a family hike . . . don’t go in the snow without a sled . . . I’m not talking about those traditional wooden jobbies which take half of your strength to pull them unladen up a snowy bank, but a super plastic “spoon” (for want of a better word) with a butt cheek shaped seat and a handle. Great fun . . . . watch out, there’s no brakes!
• Snofling – have you ever been snofled? Well, that might all change very soon. A snofle is a device which allows you to make and throw snowballs without even getting your hands wet . . . bring it on suckers!

Where are the toys for his camping trip? Okay, you haven’t unpacked ‘em yet, well good, I hope you’ve brought plenty . . . .