A Story Around the Campfire is a Special Family Time
Campfire stories provide creative entertainment without need for anything, but a
speaker and an audience. In the day of portable DVD players, iPods, text
messages and cell phones, it's important to unplug and share a bit of family
time around a fire. A story at the campfire is more than just entertainment,
it's a time to reconnect with each other, Using your imagination and sharing it
with the ones you love.
Campfires set the mood for a
great camping trip. One thing that children often look forward to is sitting
around the camp fire at night roasting marshmallows and telling scary stories.
It makes the trip exciting, something different that you do not get to do at
home. It's great because the stories bring the family together for a little quality
time.
The best stories are the funny ones that get everyone laughing - or maybe a spooky
campfire story that ends with a fright, giving a chance for everyone to huddle
close for a while. A quiet woods and a roaring fire is the perfect place
for camping stories.
Campfire stories help add to the ambiance of camping, especially when told at
night right before everyone goes to sleep. They also create a great memory for
parents and their children to share. You know, someday it will be "Remember the
time we went camping and Dad told that creepy story about..."
I went camping in the mountains in Western Maryland for my friends 16th birthday. All her family and friends went. We were sitting around a campfire ...
When my children were young, we'd always take them camping every summer in the Ozark Mountains. We'd roast marshmallows and hotdogs and tell spooky ...
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