Raising Conscientious and Environmentally Aware Young Campers
Camping with your family can be a blast.
All the new smells, sights, and experiences can turn even the most difficult child into an adventurous happy little angel.
Our family realizes the benefits of camping and strives to take 10 or more camping trips each year, from early spring to early winter.
We use the time out in the wilderness to teach our children as well as bond with them.
One activity that we always play upon arrival to our new site, as well as departure is keeping a clean campsite.
Our kids are young, and being a parent of young children, I realize the importance of implementing good behaviors, character, and habits into them now so it will become second nature to them when they become adults.
We come up with many games and activities that promote wonderful behaviors in them such as the Trash Treasure hunt.
When we arrive to our campsite, we start by exploring the area, looking over the camp fire others had used, scouring the area for litter, and other signs of humans.
The kids try to find all the trash and help pick it up before we even unload the car to setup our site.
The reason behind this is that litter attracts wildlife, and we do not want to have other campers trash in our new campsite set us up for a dangerous situation with bears or other wildlife.
So we start with our trash treasure hunt and fill our garbage bag with any debris whether on the ground, or in the fire pit.
The kids tend to compete to see who can find the most trash.
Many campers like to burn their trash, but there are a lot of trash items that simply do not burn completely.
Each item decomposes at a different rate, some taking hundreds of years (such as aluminum soda cans), while others only a couple of weeks (such as an apple core).
That's why it is important for all campers to carry out all the items they carried into the campsite.
While we are camping, everyone is now quite aware of their own trash, being sure to place it in the proper disposal bag so we do not leave behind any of our own trash.
The kids often want to come back to the same campsite as we are leaving because it is now so clean.
Our kids love to play trash treasure hunt when we are camping.
I love to play along with them knowing how much good it is doing for the environment, the wildlife as well as future generations of campers.
If we all pitch in and play, we will be able to succeed in leaving no trace behind.
Happy Travels
All the new smells, sights, and experiences can turn even the most difficult child into an adventurous happy little angel.
Our family realizes the benefits of camping and strives to take 10 or more camping trips each year, from early spring to early winter.
We use the time out in the wilderness to teach our children as well as bond with them.
One activity that we always play upon arrival to our new site, as well as departure is keeping a clean campsite.
Our kids are young, and being a parent of young children, I realize the importance of implementing good behaviors, character, and habits into them now so it will become second nature to them when they become adults.
We come up with many games and activities that promote wonderful behaviors in them such as the Trash Treasure hunt.
When we arrive to our campsite, we start by exploring the area, looking over the camp fire others had used, scouring the area for litter, and other signs of humans.
The kids try to find all the trash and help pick it up before we even unload the car to setup our site.
The reason behind this is that litter attracts wildlife, and we do not want to have other campers trash in our new campsite set us up for a dangerous situation with bears or other wildlife.
So we start with our trash treasure hunt and fill our garbage bag with any debris whether on the ground, or in the fire pit.
The kids tend to compete to see who can find the most trash.
Many campers like to burn their trash, but there are a lot of trash items that simply do not burn completely.
Each item decomposes at a different rate, some taking hundreds of years (such as aluminum soda cans), while others only a couple of weeks (such as an apple core).
That's why it is important for all campers to carry out all the items they carried into the campsite.
While we are camping, everyone is now quite aware of their own trash, being sure to place it in the proper disposal bag so we do not leave behind any of our own trash.
The kids often want to come back to the same campsite as we are leaving because it is now so clean.
Our kids love to play trash treasure hunt when we are camping.
I love to play along with them knowing how much good it is doing for the environment, the wildlife as well as future generations of campers.
If we all pitch in and play, we will be able to succeed in leaving no trace behind.
Happy Travels
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