Camping games for the hours between the tent and the campfire
Once the tent's up and the firewood's stacked, there's a long stretch of afternoon before anyone needs to light the fire. Let's Tingo fills it with a game of bingo. You build a board of things to find around camp, everyone gets their own board from the same list, and the first to fill five in a row calls a Tingo.
It turns a wander around the loop into a camping scavenger hunt, with the whole group out looking.
Camping bingo built for where you're staying
Pick a game type, tell Let's Tingo you're camping at a state park by a lake, and it builds a list of finds from that: a canoe on the shore, a camper with a flag, a hammock between two trees. Keep the ones you like, add the camp host's golf cart that goes past every hour, and share the game.
In most games, finds are shared, so when anyone spots something, it shows up on every board that has it. Whoever walks to the camp store can fill in squares for everyone back at the site.
A campground scavenger hunt around the loop
The campground itself is full of finds: string lights on an awning, a vintage camper, someone selling firewood. A walk around the loop to the bathhouse and back is enough to fill a few squares.
For the youngest campers, a campsite scavenger hunt can stay within sight of your own fire: the lantern, the marshmallow sticks, a pinecone by the tent. It keeps them close while the grown-ups get dinner going.
Camping games for families
Camping games for a big family have to work with people arriving at different times. Make it a join-any-time game and it's live the moment the invites go out, so the cousins who pull into the next site after dinner can join halfway through.
Name a prize when you set it up, like the first s'more of the night or choosing tomorrow's hike, and everyone sees what they're playing for.
Camping games for adults
A weekend at a group site with old friends, or a couple's trip to a lake with a canoe, deserves a board of its own. Build one around where you're going and what you're planning to do there.
Pick a camera game and every find needs a photo. The photo stays with the find for the whole group to see, so by Sunday morning the board holds the whole weekend.
Camping scavenger hunt ideas to get your board started
These are the kind of finds that make a good camping scavenger hunt. Use them, change them, or let Let's Tingo suggest its own from what you tell it. For other occasions, browse more scavenger hunt ideas.
Around the campground
- String lights
- Hammock
- Camper with a flag
- Pop-up camper
- Vintage camper
- Firewood for sale
- Camp store
- Ranger truck
- Bike with a basket
- Playground
- Golf cart
- Dog on a leash
At the campsite
- Fire pit
- Lantern
- Marshmallow stick
- Percolator
- Muddy boots
- Clothesline
- Camp chair
- Cooler
- Bug spray
- Flashlight
- Camp stove
- Tent stake
In the woods and water
- Canoe
- Kayak
- Someone fishing
- Dock
- Lily pad
- Frog
- Heron
- Deer
- Fireflies
- Raccoon tracks
- Pinecone
- Mushroom
Get your camping trip ready
Build the board while you're packing the car, and share it once everyone's at the site. The same game works for a nature scavenger hunt on the trail, beach games for a week by the water, and a summer bucket list that lasts until school starts.
Joining a game is always free, in the app or in a browser. Plenty of games are free to make, too.