What do your kids get up to? Esp in the rain?

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Ok... I'm not a novice camper but booked with a friend this year and could hear the panic in her voice about rain and what the kids would do... esp as we have gone rural...

I've gone blank em. I'm thinking back to previous years ( we are tent in field ppl ) but have been pretty lucky with the weather and on rainy day last year, went to a swimming pool. Unlikely to be doing anything like that this year!

I'm all for 'just have the right clothes' / let them get wet/ and am.prettybsure I have just let them run around playing god knows what with random kids!
Will bring some toys/colouring/dobble etc
....

But hey, what do yours get up to?
Or, what tricks do you have up your sleeve?!

build a den out of big branches they have found (they find it great fun to shelter in that)

story time inside of the tent (they like the world's worst children, even the oldest will listen to that)

card games

have a great time!

Mine our 6 & 4 in a caravan so maybe slightly different.

Uno, card games, playdo and dominoes are popular, along with toys we keep in there so they are special. We also buy 2 kids magazines to crack out in emergencies.

We also have a tv with DVD player when it gets too much.

Once it rained and we weren’t prepared, so I gave my DD a packet of penne pasta and some string, and she spent a while making necklaces and bracelets! Since then, I’ve always taken crafty activities.
My DC love Paint by Sticker books, scratch art kits, more grown-up dot to dots etc...
Puzzle books like wordsearches
Where’s Wally?
Top Trumps
My DD and her friend like to plait each other’s hair and paint nails.
We invested in a jigsaw carrier www.argos.co.uk/product/6537041?clickSR=slp:term:jigsaw%20mat:2:274:1 and always take a few puzzles.

Keep your devices charged and download some new apps before you go!

We took our grandchildren to the New Forest camping, it rained and was muddy, we took waterproofs and wellies, they had a great time playing in the swamp with the other kids on the site.

This will not meet all parents’ approval:
Sat under the porch firing spud guns at a target outside.

How old are the kids? Just take a Tupperware of Lego and another of small cars / toy animals etc.

If older, help prep the cooking.

Card games like Old Maid, Sleeping Queens etc

Colouring & dot to dots.

If it's really wet then they enjoy rolling about in their sleeping bags.

Lots of eating - fry ups etc.

I'm not a major fan of camping in the rain but one of my favourite holidays ever was last year camping through a yellow weather warning!

Colouring. Card/board games. Running around in the rain in waterproofs. Arguing . Puzzles. Reading. Water fights
When they were small we had a small toy box that lived in the camping trailer so always had a selection of things.
They are teens now but still enjoy all of the above. And Nintendo DSs. They have an admirable battery life. But once it's dead its dead. It's a good lesson in self limiting screen time !

Dobble, uno, colouring and sticker books are our go to rainy camping activities if it's really pouring down for ages we might watch a DVD but try to save that as a last resort. Biscuits help a lot.

Board games
Walking
Depending where you are camping (and Covid restrictions allowing) swimming, cinema, if on a site with kids club they went there

Might be slightly different with social distancing but one year it rained badly and one of the parents set up a laptop playing 'Frozen' under an event shelter. There must have been 15 kids all wrapped in blankets and eating popcorn watching it together in their 'outdoor cinema' whilst the parents enjoyed an hour or so to relax.