Camping sounds a ton of fun. Camping with friends, family or relatives, eating delicious campfire food, and interesting activities can make camping much enjoyable.
There is a whole range of things that you can do in a tent at night. From chatting, having a drink and nibbles, through to playing games such as cards or charades with a little planning and forethought the number of things that you can get up to are limited only by your willingness and imagination.
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Make sure that your tent is comfortable
For camping, you need to have a tent for sleeping, taking rest and do many more fun filled activities.
When you have camped all day and have had many adventures, so at night you can have fun doing lots of stuff while sitting in the tent.
For this all to happen, you first need to make your tent comfortable and cozy so that you can enjoy whatever you do.
First you should soften the floor with floor tiles made of foam. These tiles can keep you away from the dirt and mud on the ground.
Then add up some fairy rechargeable lights to make your tent comfy.
Add up some sheets on the foam tiles, some DIY sleeping mattresses or some sleeping pads.
You can also set some folding chairs inside your tent to add up some sitting places if you have many friends along with you.
Play Cards or Charades
There are a lot of activities you can do inside a tent when you don’t feel like sleeping at night and want to do some fun engagements. I could play cards all night long!
You can take cards along with you and play Uno, bluff or go fish with your camping partners.
You can play a very engaging game like charades. This game can involve almost every member you have in your tent or camp.
Talk and Catch Up
You can also use this time to connect with your friends and have talks with them. The modern busy lifestyles rarely allow us enough free time to just relax and talk with our families and friends.
When you are camping, the minds are mostly occupied with other activities. Hiking, swimming, snorkelling, and fishing among other camping recreation sports are all mind-tasking.
Conversely, staying inside a tent in the rain or at night leaves the mind open for a few social and personal involvements. It can also be a perfect opportunity to engage with family and friends.
You can talk about the day’s adventure, brainstorm strategies to improve the excursion, or talk about general topics like politics, fashion etc. Either way, the chatter creates a better bond and understanding amongst the campers.
Play Games
You can play truth or dare as well. This game amazes me every time.
You can get to know many of the secrets of your friends or family members and you also spell some of your secrets too.
If you are camping with your friends so you can definitely play this game.
But beware of the dares given to you in the night as they can be frightening for you!
I also know one fun filled game named “Now or later”. In this game you set out a bowl full of small, different-colored candies like Skittles or M&Ms.
A player closes their eyes, selects two from the bowl, pops them in their mouth, then shows the other players which colors they have in their mouth.
If the candies are the same color, then that player gets to eat them now, but if they are different, the player has to hold them in their mouth until their next turn.
As soon as two of the colors in your mouth match, you can eat the whole mouthful!
This only works when the player selects blindly and doesn’t know which colors they have in their mouth. This game can be really interesting for you and your friends.
You can also play some board games if you are getting bored. Jenga is also a very absorbing game which can be played inside a tent.
In this game the players take turns removing one block from a tower made of 54 blocks at a time. Each removed block is then put on top of the tower, creating a structure that is increasingly more unstable.
Watch Movies or read books
You can watch a movie if you take a laptop with you and enjoy popcorns with it.
You can also make some tasty campfire food and eat while watching a movie.
If you are a book or a novel reader and reading books fascinate you, you can read a novel at night inside the tent.
Telling some ghost stories to your friends at night inside a tent can be quite interesting by evoking the feelings of terror and dread and building them up into a horrifying climax.
If you have some kids with you in a tent, you can also read them some bed time stories if they want to take a nap.
You can write your journal if you are a journal keeping person. I really like writing journals and I would love to write journal about my adventures which I had during the day when camping.
Just take in nature
If you are tired so you can also take rest for some while or can sleep as well if you want to.
You can look at the sky and gaze the beautiful stars if you have an opening tent. Gazing up at a starry sky on a clear night from inside your tent can be both relaxing and exciting.
If you take a small, portable telescope then you can get a real appreciation of the heavens.
When you are tired and want to relax, you can listen to nature‘s sounds.
Some natural sounds are remarkably good, such as the melodious chirps of night insects.
It can also be very relaxing to listen to the rhythmical thud of sea waves on the shore or the drip of rain on the tent fly.
Sing some songs
A perfect way to get everyone involved is to sing songs around the campfire.
Make sure to put it on your camping trip if anyone plays the guitar. Otherwise, carry whatever materials, such as bells, triangles, and harmonicas, you have.
Sing along your friends or family members and you can have a wonderful time doing this activity.
Final Words
When camping in a tent at a far-off campsite, and when dusk falls and the moon and stars come out, boredom can kick in.
So in such situations, to pass the time and enliven your camping experience, you can engage in any of the activities above and I bet you will never get bored or run out of the activities.
