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Camp Fire Cake: Use our {
White Chocolate Birch Log Cake } recipe to make two logs. When complete,
lay them across each other, then decorate the top log with crushed orange and
yellow candies. Insert yellow or orange candles around the candies; light them
up and have everyone gather around for a birthday sing-along!
{ Easy Baked
Beans }
{ All American
Potato Salad }
{ Country Cole
Slaw }
Seven Minute Frosting S’Mores: Replace the
usual marshmallows with our gooey and yummy {
Seven Minute Frosting }. To make the S'mores: Frost one side of a graham
cracker half, sprinkle with milk chocolate chips and sandwich closed with the
other half of the graham cracker.
{ Grab-and-Go
Snack Mix } and {
Crunchy Granola } Serve up these fun snacks in mini brown paper bags.
Hot Dogs on a Stick
You can borrow tents from family and friends to set up in the backyard.
Decorate them with green balloons and make a cardboard sign giving each tent
its own camp name:
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Camp Birth-D-Heehaha
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Camp Itzma-ParTeePee
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Camp Wannakake
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Make your backyard into a forest by cutting out large pieces of cardboard from
appliance boxes in the shapes of pine trees. Paint them green, then prop them
all around the birthday campsite!
On a wooden post or tree, put up arrow-shaped cardboard signs pointing everyone
in the right direction:
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Johnny's Camp Out
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Outhouse
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Haunted Forest
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For that starry-night glow, string up some white holiday lights around a couple
of trees.
Draw and cut out a large picture of a bear from cardboard. Leave a hole for the
face for the guests to poke through for pictures.
Using popsicle sticks from the craft store and glue, have the kids build their
own log cabin. They can also decorate them with acorns and pebbles from around
the house.
Fill a small wading pool with water. Cut out shapes of fish from foam found at
a craft store and attach a metal paperclip to each fish's mouth. For fishing
poles, attach a small magnet to the end of a string tied to a stick. Then let
each guest take turns fishing for as many foam fish as they can in less than 30
seconds.
Split up guests into two teams supplying each with a sleeping bag. Each player
will then have to lie in the sleeping bag, roll across the yard and back to let
the next team player go. The team that finishes rolling first wins!
In a dark room, the birthday person starts the game by being the first
"camper". All other guests will spread around the room and pretend to
be bears and wolves in the forest; they have to make animal sounds to try to
call out to the camper. The goal of the camper will be to try to light the
animal's face with the flashlight.
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Tie a red handkerchief filled with goodies to the end of a wooden
stick. Attach a name tag and they're ready to head home!
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Pick up some colorful plastic flashlights from the discount store and fill
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