Before you go: Tips for camping with a baby, toddler, or preschooler
This post is going above and beyond your usual roundup of “Top 10 Tips” to give you links to tips on top of tips that I’ve shared on camping with a baby, camping with a toddler, and camping with preschoolers as well.
Tips to help before you go camping with a baby, toddler, or preschooler:
Sure, pitching the tent in a backyard overnight is not a bad way to reintroduce your child to camp life after a long winter, but if you don’t opt for that, you might want to at least run through some of these situations to help your child–and yourself work out some of the potential kinks in camping with small kids. See Why and How to Practice Camping with Little Kids.
“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify, simplify!” – H.D. Thoreau. In that spirit, I offer a handful of our family’s favorites that have vastly simplified car camping trips with our kids. And so far, I haven’t heard any complaints. See Five Easy Foods to Pack for Camping with Little Kids.
Wondering where to pitch your tent or park your campervan when camping with babies and toddlers? Be sure to read Three Campsites to Avoid when Camping with Babies, Toddlers, and Little Kids.
If this is your first time camping with a toddler or preschooler, remember that the likelihood of certain wildlife and insect encounters actually increases when you have small children (aka insatiably curious and fearless explorers) in camp. You can read about some of our surprises in Scorpions, Ticks, and Bears–Oh, My! and you might want to keep these helpful links handy in case there is any possibility of crossing paths with bears, snakes, scorpions at your camping destination.
Also, I’ve included some helpful information on tick life cycles and preventing tick bites in the new edition Travels with Baby: The Ultimate Guide. Knowledge is power!
For a list of helpful items and things you might not think of, see the book excerpt featured in the post: Packing List for Camping with Babies and Toddlers
And in case these aren’t enough…remember there’s much more on camping with kids under 5 in my 400+ page guidebook for parents Travels with Baby: The Ultimate Guide…
Safe journeys,
Shelly Rivoli, author of the award-winning Travels with Baby guidebooks
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