Summer Backyard Campout

Family Adventure

It’s time for a summer campout . . . in the back yard!!

Work with Mom and Dad to choose:

• the night
• the accommodations (do you have a tent, will you build a tent from blankets, will you sleep on the trampoline, etc.)
• the FOOD! (What’s a campout without food!?!)
• the entertainment (will everyone do a skit? will you read bedtime stories? Be sure to include the whole family!)

This night is all about being with your family to CREATE and CAPTURE Memories! Be creative and have fun with it!

Pre-K Adventure

It’s time for a summer campout . . . in the back yard!!

Work with Mom and Dad to choose:

• the night
• the accommodations (do you have a tent, will you build a tent from blankets, will you sleep on the trampoline, etc.)
• the FOOD! (What’s a campout without food!?!)
• the entertainment (will everyone do a skit? will you read bedtime stories? Be sure to include the whole family!)

This night is all about being with your family to CREATE and CAPTURE Memories! Be creative and have fun with it!

Community Engagement Adventure

It’s time to take your backyard campout to a whole new level . . . and YOU are in charge (with approval and assistance from Mom and Dad, of course!)

Now that you’ve had some fun with your basic backyard campout, get ready to take what you experienced, add in your creativity, and plan another backyard campout with a little extra . . . . well . . . that’s the part that’s the Super Achiever level! YOU get to decide what the little extra is.

Think about your first backyard campout and answer these questions:

• What worked really well?
• What didn’t work out so well?
• When it was all said and done, what do you wish you had done differently?
• What could you do to make it different?
• What could you do to add a little fun? A little flair?

This adventure is all about evaluating your experience and using your creativity and imagination to take somthing to the next level. Involve the whole family in getting feedback, lead out in brainstorming and imagining how it could be even better, and most of all . . . HAVE FUN with it!

Teen Adventure

It’s time to for your creativity to kick in and take backyard camping to a whole new level.

• Is that good old fashioned camping in the backyard?
• Does it look more like 'glamping'?
• Is it camping with a theme?Here is what you do:
• Use the guidelines from the ‘Basic’ Adventure to plan a summer backyard campout with your family.
• Follow the guidelines in the ‘Super Achiever’ adventure to evaluate your first campout and plan a second campout to take it to the next level, but here’s a twist just for TEENS!

Make this second backyard campout an event with your extended family wherever they live. Contact your older siblings, or cousins, or whoever is family to you and encourage them to join you for a backyard campout by camping out in THEIR backyard on the same night!

You can use this opportunity to teach your parents your tech savvy skills by bringing everyone together all across the state or country using face time or google hangouts or whatever platform works best for your family to go camping 'TOGETHER' while far apart. The goal is to ‘be together’, share some time and fun with each other, even if the miles between you seem to separate. Show your family that even distance can’t stop you from CREATING and CAPTURING Memories!

Photo Location

Take a groupie of you and your family at your backyard campout and post it to your social media sites using the hashtags #BackyardBBQ and #MyDiscoveryDestination