Camping and Glamping birthday party ideas – Celebrate the big outdoors!

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Get the kids out for fresh air and let the adventure begin.

Celebrate your kiddo’s birthday with a fun camping theme in your backyard – or pack the tents, food and games and spend a night in the woods! Either way, you’re sure to find plenty of games, snacks, diy decor and more for an adventurous camping birthday!

Camping Invitations

Get your campers ready for fun with this cute rustic camping birthday party invitation. Featuring a tent, a fire with s’mores marshmallows, and a bear against a rustic, textured kraft brown background.

This bright colored camping birthday invitation features a light blue tent, soft campfire and fir trees – sure to be a hit with your little camper!

Animals are coming out of the woods for this birthday party invitation – featuring a bear, owl, spawning salmon and busy squirrel!

Your happy camper will love this bright pink camping invitation with a pink tent and pastel colored flags against a starry night background.

Cute kraft brown, black and red buffalo plaid flannel camping birthday party invitations. Featuring a tent, a moose, and a bear with a textured kraft brown and black background.

Add your favorite camper photo to this fun invitation

A fun modern look for a girl or boy camping birthday party! Lantern, S’mores, Campfire, Tent, check!

Glamping Invitations

A Glamping invitation perfect for your daughter’s sleepover – whether in a tent in your backyard or a campout. Cute little pink heart on the tent gives it a sweet touch!

Who wouldn’t want to go to this glamping party? Featuring a giant sprinkled cupcake with a glitter tent and stars! This birthday invitation is as fun as it is unique!

Calling all retro campers! This watercolor camper invitation is fun for the outdoor girl!

A night under the stars! Fun birthday camping party invitation for the little camper in your world. Features string lights, a cute “glamping” tent, s’mores and more among the night sky.

Camping Birthday Party Decorations

Point the campers in the right direction with home made wooden signs. You can easily create your own with these cute wooden signs … hang on the fence, wooden post or tree branches.

Here’s a big cuddly plush bear sitting besides the “Don’t feed the Bears” sign.

You can easily add a colorful banner to your campsite – or your backyard campout!

Bring the camping inside with a tent!

Happy Camper Party in a box! Includes a colorful party banner, cups, plates, cupcake toppers and “wooden” napkins and more.

Easy – and colorful – campfire birthday plates, dessert plates and napkins.

Kids pretend campfire!

If you can’t make it to the great out doors, you can have a campfire inside! Kiddos will love roasting their “hot dogs” and “marshmallows” over the ever so safe pretend camp fire. Or you can place “pretend flames” on the table for roasting.

Your little campers will love this soft squishy “squishmallow” s’mores pillow. These squishables have a marshmallow-like texture that’s pillow-soft. Best of all, they’re machine washable.

Birthday Cakes with a Camping and Glamping theme

This colorful camping birthday cake is a stunner! With the green pitched tent, blue lake water, soft campfire and canoe with paddle, this is sure to get the birthday girl or boy’s attention!

Chocolate shavings decorate this camping theme birthday cake with a plaid pitched tent at the top. The bottom features cute edible pine cones and acorns . The cake is sitting on a wooden platter to add to the camping atmosphere.

Love this glamping theme birthday cake! The fondant flags and tent are adorable. Check out the detail on the s’mores sticks holding up the tent poles – love this!

Super cute glamping cake topper sits on top of a naked cake with scant butter cream icing.

Camping theme cupcake toppers

Easy food and snack ideas for the campers

DIY Trail Mix!

Here’s a cute way to decorate for a camping birthday – “make your own “Trail Mix”. Buckets full of snacks such as goldfish, popcorn, chocolate chips and almonds. Put them all in a large wooden serving tray to keep the spills to a minimum. Campers will have a great time creating their own mix. Put the leftovers in sacks for party favors too for the kids to take home.

Another fun take on sleeping bags with tortilla roll ups – fill with your kiddo’s favorite meat, cream cheese and veggies.

Swiss cake roll logs

It doesn’t get any easier than this! Find a box of Little Debbie Swiss Cake Rolls (one of my favorites) and stack them up like little logs on a wood pile. So fun – and simple to do!

These little wooden place card holders are perfect for your camping theme!

Camping style cutlery

This silverware set is made from wood which is harmless to both our planet and the kiddos! The product is 100% natural – no plastic, chemicals or toxins. What’s more, it’s biodegradable when released into the environment.

S’mores!

No camping party is complete without them! Grab your favorite chocolate bars, marshmallows, graham crackers, assemble in a large tray and get the fire going! Or get an easy s’mores kit delivered right to your door!

Here’s a cute way to display the s’more ingredients. Get a big bucket and small camping bowls and you’re good to go!

A super cute and easy way to bring on the camping theme. Just poke these adorable woodland animals into the cupcakes and voila! This cute set from Sarahs Sticker Shop etsy store comes with a raccoon, bunny, owl, fox, deer and a not too scary bear!

Camping games & crafts the kiddos will love!

Scavenger Hunts

A long time favorite activities for the kiddos – and even more fun in the great outdoors. Arm each team with a scavenger hunt card and let the exploring begin. Feel free to download the free printable below for your own party. You can easily hide some of these items in your backyard if you’re having a home camp out!.

Fun Twig Pencils for the kiddos

You can step it up a notch by having wood twig pencils for the scavenger hunt cards.

Camping Charades!

Charades is a fun game that’s great for kids of all ages – best of all it’s FREE! You can print out these camping charade ideas (or create your own), choose your teams and let the action begin!

For the older kiddos – Create your own Tin Lantern

Have some old tin cans lying around? Check out the tutorial from livingwellmom to create these colorful diy tin lanterns. The campers will love putting their personal touch on the tins – and another fun take home party favor!

Outdoor Movies

With a lightweight portable projector, you can create a movie theater inside (or outside) your camping tent or in your backyard.

Camping Bingo!

There are a lot of cute camping bingo games for a fun – easy – party activity. Best of all many of them – such as these two below – are free! Head on over to homemadeheather to download the first set of camping bingo cards. or artsyfartsy mom for the second set of camping bingo cards

Mud Slime!

Fun project for outdoor camping if you’re brave enough! You can mix up some gooey mud slime and let the kids have at it!

Party Favors for the campers – and glampers!

Super cute party favors for the glamping girls. You can personalize with the birthday girl’s name and fill with candy, temporary tattoos poprocks, gummy worms – let your imagination go!

Yes, s’mores are fun for the party – but also fun to take home! These cute scalloped edge favor tags are perfect for a box of marshmallows, chocolate and graham crackers.

Cute camping t-shirt for the birthday girl or boy – simple to customize!

How fun are these? Camping hair don’t care! Hair Ties – perfect party favors for the party guests.

These adorable s’more pins would make great party favors for your glampers 🙂

Perfect little favor for campers – mini led flashlights!

Camping theme favor bags, stickers, and wrapping paper.

Cute little favor bags are so sweet for the birthday guests to take home.

Here are 1,000 stickers with camping scenes such as campfires, lanterns, guitars, tents and more! The patterns are vivid with bright colors – perfect for decorating brown kraft treat bags or decorations.

Camping theme wrapping paper – cute and fun paper for camping birthdays.

S’mores thank you tags with roasting marshmallows, greenery and of course, s’mores!

Free Camping WELCOME Sign – for all newsletter subscribers!

Start the birthday off right with this FREE Printable Birthday Welcome Sign featuring a red and black plaid tent, crackling campfire, s’mores, fir trees and a friendly black bear. Easy to customize for your camper’s birthday. The poster is a large 24 x 18 size (but you can print on 8 1/2 x 11 if printing at home) Just sign up for our newsletter and get instant access to this free printable!

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