Look Inside: The Colossal Camping & Activity Fun Book by Camping with Style – COMING SOON!
We’re close to launching our very first book, and with the second already underway, Shell hopes that the new activity book will offer heaps of fun, creative ideas, and gentle learning for KS2 children on their camping adventures…
Launching Next Month, Why buy this book?
The perfect rainy-day companion and the ideal book to keep your kids away from screens during your next camping trip, this camping activity book is packed with 75 pages of fun ideas that kids will love – a book they’ll come back to time and time again!
The camping activity book is designed for younger KS2 readers. While much of the book will be suitable for curious younger readers, children aged 6 may need some parental or older sibling support in places.
⭐ Educational
⭐ Fun creative ideas
⭐ Packed full of variety
The book will retail for £9.99, but follow us on social media and look out for our discounted launch offer and a giveaway coming soon!
What’s inside the book?
Explore the wonders of nature with nature arts and crafts, go on fun scavenger hunts, practice mindfulness and nature exercises, and solve fun puzzles and word searches. Keep track of your camping achievements, and learn some basic nature skills and facts. Gather around the campfire for some silly spooky stories, and challenge your kids with spot-the-difference games and colouring pages.
🐛 Nature arts & crafts
🔍 Scavenger hunts
💭 Mindfulness & nature exercises
🧩 Puzzles & word searches
⛺ Camping facts & basic skills
🔥 Campfire stories & jokes
🤪 Silly & fun boredom busters
🕵️ Spot the difference from easy to hard
🎨 Colouring in pages
ℹ️ Information and facts about nature
…plus much more, and of course, it’s all camping-themed!
Why Shell Wrote It
I have fond memories of activity books as a child of the 80s. If it had the word ‘bumper’ on the cover and was packed full of word searches, colouring-in pages and dot-to-dots, it was enough to keep me happy for hours and days on end. Of course, life is very different now, and kids are more frequently glued to screens and spend far less time outdoors than we did.
With rates of childhood anxiety soaring and generation Alpha facing a unique set of challenges in navigating a digital, increasingly distracted and nature-disconnected world, I wanted to bring a taste of my own, simple, happy childhood to the kids of today.
I didn’t want the book to be all colouring-in pages and silliness, though. I was also keen to provide real value and draw on topics we cover here on the blog related to wellbeing, and to provide creative activities like creating nature mandalas and rock painting, designed to fire imaginations.
With my daughter now grown up, it’s a bit of a gamble writing for a younger audience, but no matter how old our kids are, we never forget the things they loved when they were little, and I know that aged 8, she’d have loved a book like this that provides equal parts fun and silliness along with learning craft skills and gentle education.
I firmly believe that spending time outdoors contributes to our happiness. Having experienced my own mental health challenges, I know firsthand that reconnecting with nature is a valuable way to manage difficult emotions, whatever our age. Time in nature is a powerful and effective means of fostering a greater sense of wellbeing, and in its own small way, that is precisely what this first book sets out to offer.
Let The Adventure Begin
Whether you’re heading off on your very first tentative family camping trip, embarking on one of many camping holidays, or simply pitching a pop-up tent in the back garden for the children, I hope you’ll consider purchasing The Colossal Camping Activity & Fun Book from Camping with Style!
From open water swimming, snowboarding and kayaking to hill walks and meditation, Shell shares her travels and microadventures here on the blog and in various publications she's written for, Shell has a particular interest in promoting wellbeing and the many benefits of nature therapy.
