DS going to cub camp. Sleeping bag advice please

[clumsymum]

Cos dh and I are not great outdoorsers, and know nothing.

List of required items says he needs a mummy-style sleeping bag.

We have a set of bags that came with a tent set from sainsbugs last year (DH says he'll take ds camping one day, it'll never happen), but they are not mummy-style.

Do we need to buy a mummy-style one?

I think in your shoes I'd ask them to say why your existing bag won't be good enough. We're novice campers but dd has always been warm enough in her non-mummy bag (a cheapo supermarket one, of the sort sold mainly for sleepovers). If yours is a proper camping-style bag I'm sure ds would be warm enough in that - is it because with mummy-style bags they can fit more boys in each tent? Do cubs sleep in tents anyway? Brownies don't. And besides, if the boys are sleeping on airbeds, having a mummy-style bag won't actually save any space.

I'm heavily into thrift at the moment, so I'd resist buying a new bag especially for camp unless the leaders could convince me otherwise!

I think that is a bit odd.

DC are in Cubs and Scouts and do an awful lot of camping. DS was even camping in the snow earlier this year.

The specification should not be on the style - it is to do with the warmth rating/appropriate for season.

Go back to your leader and find out what is going on. Lack of money for equipment for a camp should not be a bar to a child going on camp - someone should be able to lend you one if necessary.

Absolutely, claricebeansmum. That's how we'd do it in Brownies but I was wondering whether Cubs and Scouts were more prescriptive.