Camping Fun Thanks to Blogs!

I love blogging and I love to read other's blogs! There is always something so useful or fun that I think to myself, "I need to stash that idea away in my head for one of these days..."

Last weekend became one of those times.

We took the kids camping with cousins! (You know, one last summer hurrah!)

And when I wanted to think of some kind of fun activity to do with the kids while camping, I looked no further than what I had read just a short while ago on a couple of my friend's blogs!

First off, here's a fun idea someone shared of making nature bracelets. But for the LIFE of me I cannot remember who had it on their blog!! So if anyone out there knows, or it may be YOU, please let me know so I can give credit to this person! :) So back to the nature bracelets... Talk about EASY! All I had to do was wrap a piece of masking tape around each of their wrists, and they were off to the races!

And here is what some of them came back with!

And yes, that is a hospital bracelet on my son's hand above. Ummm...let's just say his hand and a fast-shutting front door met the night before. The door won. :(

My niece was ecstatic with her nature bracelet!

And here's one more...

I'm thinking that this was such a quick and easy way to keep the kids entertained, I may even pull out my roll of masking tape more often at home! LOL

Then my friend, Shelli of Needle in a Haystack shared a great idea on her blog of making rock necklaces! I've seen things like this before, and never could figure out how it was done. But Shelli gave great instructions that made this one easy-peasy! The kids LOVED finding their favorite rock and then bringing them back to me to wire them.

You're in for a real treat when you visit Shelli's blog! I'd love for you to stop by and say "hi!"

My camera died and so I was unable to get more pictures of the necklaces. So on one final note, I will end with this picture of another one of my nieces.

Ahhh...gotta love the great outdoors.