Hit the Trail!: The Camping Kit for Kids [With Flashlight and Mini-Compass]

Kids and camping are a natural. Whether hiking the Appalachian trail or planning a backyard sleepover, children will find that Hit the Trail helps them make the most of their outdoor experience.This kit has just the right amount of information, hints, and tips to keep campers in fun and out of trouble. Armed with the included customized compass and flashlight, Tenderfeet and Tarzans alike will benefit from this practical and entertaining collection on everything from building your own teepee and identifying animals after dark to building fires and telling a ghost story that'll scare the insect repellent off your tent mate.Hit the Trail packs in fun and games and serious outdoors information that can be enjoyed at home, in the backyard, on the drive to the campsite, and in a tent by flashlight. Perfect your half-hitch knot, know exactly what to do if a bear shows too strong an interest in your p.b. and j. sandwich, master the fine (but elusive) art of making molds of the animal tracks you discover and identify with the mammal guide. Or, if you prefer, just sit back and calculate the temperature from the crickets' chirps while reading accounts of famous adventurers from the comfort you learned how to make. Whichever way the Trail will be the best two pounds you fit into pack.-- Kit includes flashlight and mini-compass-- Full-color illustrations