DIY Mini Camping Set Craft with Sticks and Paper: Make camping gear for your small toys and take them on a trip!
Kick-off this year’s round of summer crafts with these easy to craft and great for imaginary play, DIY Mini Camping Set Craft with Sticks and Paper. Made simply from pattern paper and a few other supplies, these tiny craft creations are a wonderful summer boredom buster idea! Bring the campsite to life at home with some miniature toys and pretend you are camping in a national park.
DIY Mini Camping Set Craft with Sticks and Paper
Supplies for the Camping Set Craft :
- Glue Gun
- Popsicle sticks
- Patterned paper
- Scissors
- Measuring tape or a ruler.
For the Campsite
- Artificial stones
- Twigs
- Patterned paper blue for the lake
- Felt sheet in green for the grass
- Red pipe cleaner
To make the Camping Tent Craft –
Cut your patterned paper or cardstock into a rectangle 12 inches by 6 inches. We used a 12×12 cardstock & cut it in half.
You could also make it smaller by reducing the paper size to the same ratio eg – 9×4.5 or a 6×3
Use a ruler to mark 3.9 inches on the paper. Then, fold the rectangle into a tent shape by making 3 folds at exactly 3.9 inches and then pasting the extra space over the other end to form a triangle as shown below. So we have a triangle structure that’s now 6 inches wide and has a triangle at both ends.
Using a low heat hot melt glue gun, affix 4 popsicle sticks, 2 at each end. Glue the first stick and then overlap the second one on top taking care to align them to the paper edge.
Set up the whole Campsite by placing the blue cardstock at the bottom. The layer on top is the green felt grass. Cut out a wavy shape to resemble an actual grassland next to a lake. Sprinkle your set with artificial stones, place your tents, and create a mini fireplace using stones placed in a circle, some cut up mini twigs to form the firewood & finally red chenille stick that acts like fire.
Today’s DIY Mini Camping Set Craft is absolutely PERFECT for summer boredom busters and family camping adventures! We are going to make a craft tent that is simple for all ages and it’s going to be a cinch for YOU to pull together within minutes! PLUS you can customize it however you like or maybe even add a photo to the center of it, to turn it into an instant summer keepsake!
So what are you waiting for? There are so many possibilities on this one. No more waiting! Let’s grab those supplies and get to work on making your own special DIY Mini Camping Set Craft piece with your child today {maybe even make a whole campsite set for the family, if you like!}
Check out our other Nature inspired crafts:
Stick Bow and Arrow Craft For Kids
Stick and Leaf Butterfly Nature Craft
Making Spring Flowers with Okra & Beans
Oh my cute!!! Love this idea. Thanks for sharing at the Monday Funday Party!!
These are so stinkin’ cute! I can already see my kids having a little pretend campout on the dining room table! Thanks for sharing at Merry Monday this week. 🙂
So cute and very easy.
I pin 🙂
How adorable! Our Lego people would love to go on a mini pretend camping trip! 😉
These are super cute! I want to make them for my little boys and have a pretend mini camp-out. 🙂
Such a cute craft…so adorable! Thanks for sharing at Welcome Home Wednesdays! I can’t wait to see what you link up next time!
I’m the Editor of Fun Family Crafts and wanted to let you know that we have featured your camping set! You can see it here:
https://funfamilycrafts.com/mini-camping-set/
If you have other kid-friendly craft tutorials, we’d love for you to submit them. Thanks for a great project idea!