Tent Camping Checklist

Tent Camping Checklist - Have you ever arrived at your camping destination and realised you left something important at home? Out tent camping checklist should help you remember the essentials for tent camping.

Tent Camping List

To help you have a great camping trip away...

• Tent (yes it has been forgotten before)
• Tent poles
• Stakes / Pegs
• Hammer / Mallet (for that really hard ground)
• Chairs
• Tarp (either to put over the tent or maybe as shade if it’s hot)
• Rope
• Sleeping bags
• Pillows
• Mattress (Inflatable or if you’ve got room in your car, 3 inch (75mm) foam is best as there's nothing worse than waking up in the middle of the night flat on the hard ground!)
• Camp stove
• Kitchen utensils for cooking
• Whisk broom and dust pan (for sweeping the tent out)
• Camping table
• Camping light (LED is best these days, they don’t use much power and the globes last forever)
• Torch
• Firewood
• Print off some of our free camp songs to sing around the camp fire

Keep it simple

Try not to bring everything that you have at home if you can help it, as most times the basics will do the job and you’ll have more fun. If possible don’t bring laptops, portable DVD players, etc., camping is a great opportunity to get kids away from staring at screens and generally kids will have much more fun making up their own games and talking around the camp fire. There is a favourite camping place we go to each year where there are no cars and our kids just roam around exploring, sometimes we don’t see them for hours!