26 Creative and Easy Camping Ideas and Tips
- Channel lock pliers make good pot holders.
- Nylon rope can be used as shoe laces.
- Use a large zip lock plastic bag, filled with air, as a pillow.
- A plastic bottle makes a good latrine for cold weather camping. (You don’t
have to ‘go’ very far from your sleeping bag). Keep it just outside the tent flap. - Carry several pieces of lumber cut into two-inch squares to summer camp and
use these to level platform, tent, and cot. - Old shower curtains make great ground tarps.
- Waterproof matches by dipping them in nail polish.
- Waterproof matches by dipping in melted paraffin.
- Make fire starters by filling paper condiment cups with saw dust and pouring
paraffin into the cup. - A length of chain and a piece of coat hanger bent into an S-shape will allow
you to hang your lantern from a tree limb. - Keep batteries in prescription bottles.
- Prescription bottles also make good match safes.
- In fact, prescription bottles (or 35mm file containers) make good storage places for small items of all sorts.
- A frisbee will add support to paper plates when the plate is place inside
the frisbee. - Laundry lint makes good tinder.
- Keep the water in your canteen cooler by wrapping the canteen in foil.
- When it comes time to pack up at the end of a camp, a wet toothbrush, face
cloth and bar of soap wrapped in foil won’t dampen the other things in your
kit. - To prevent batteries from wearing down if a flashlight is accidently nudged
on while you’re traveling, put the flashlight batteries in backwards. - To protect your feet from blisters, smear soap on the inside of your inner
sock at the heel and underneath the toes. Carry along a bar of soap and,
when you feel your feet become tender, give it a try. - To keep mosquitoes away rub the inside of an orange peel on face, arms and
legs. - Wrap fishing gear in foil to keep line from tangling and hooks from rusting.
By lining the compartments of a tackle box with foil, you can prevent rust
damage to plugs and other equipment. - To remove musty smell from canteen, put three teaspoons of baking soda into
the canteen with a bit of water. Swish it around and let sit for an hour,
then rinse out the canteen. - An empty plastic soda bottle, cut off to a convenient height, will work as a
camp bowl. You may want to sandpaper the cut to smooth the edge. - Save inner cardboard tubes from kitchen and toilet rolls, stuff with waste
paper and use as fire-lighters. - Use zip-lock bags for mixing foods, be sure it is closed tight and the top
is held shut before shaking or kneading. - Duct tape can be used to repair most everything on a trip. Use it to patch
tents, mend poles, hold up schedules, patch torn shoes, hold poles for
mosquito nets to cots, etc.
