RE: Real Campfire/Bedtime Stories

Wayfarer · Sep 28, 2003, 07:05 PM

We re fairly new at camping and new at having granddaughters camp with us. How about sharing some real stories, you know, tall tales, ghost stories, etc., that would be good for telling to the kids around the campfire. Got any good ones?

dee106 · Mar 30, 2003, 11:10 PM

Wayfarerremember clean ones! they have their granddaughter listening![8D]

Gamecock Camper · Mar 31, 2003, 09:19 AM

WayfarerOne of the kids favorites is a story we tell around the campfire, especially to smaller children...... The big kids like it too...

Once on a dark night, just like this one, we were sitting by the campfire. It was a beautiful night. Except for the campfire and a slight breeze the campground was quiet. We were cooking our marshmellows and were talking about what we were going to do the next day when we heard it. There was something in the woods. We could hear it slowly coming our way. Whatever it was, it was big and was trying unsuccessfully to quietly come our way. S-L-O-W-L-Y it came. Crunch......... Crunch..........Crunch.........Crunch. Our entire family was quiet and staring at one another with wide eyes. Crunch........Crunch..........Crunch. It was coming closer and closer. Crunch...........Crunch.............Crunch. It was coming near, but we were frozen in our fear. Crunch...........Crunch.........Crunch....... and then we saw him. He was huge and one of the scariest creatures we had ever seen. He opened his mouth and..... and...... and.........
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then he sang, I love you, You love me.........."

Wayfarer · Mar 31, 2003, 09:31 AM

WayfarerThanks, Stopher. Just the sort of thing I m looking for. I m sure the granddaughters will love it the next time we out around the campfire.

Alright, I know there are a bunch more out there. Keep em coming...[

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Chuck
aka Wayfarer

Wayfarer · Apr 03, 2003, 08:17 PM

Wayfarerbump

birol · Apr 03, 2003, 08:27 PM

WayfarerYes, more please, how do you guys think I am going to keep my monsters busy at night in VA ?

Birol

Gamecock Camper · Apr 04, 2003, 12:47 AM

WayfarerAm I the only one who makes up campfire stories? We have a pretty creative (only my opinion mind you) family and make up stories all the time when roasting marshmellows by the campfire........

Miss-Teri · Apr 05, 2003, 10:23 AM

WayfarerThe ones I used to love when I was little (and my kids liked too!) were:

We were sitting quietly at the campground when we heard a low moan. Eventually it got loud enough that we could hear the words... " Gonna get ya. Got ya. Now I m gonna eat ya!" (said in a spooky voice)
We snuck around the campground following the voice as it got louder - " Gonna get ya. Got ya. Now I m gonna eat ya!" , very scared, our minds envisioning what poor souls were being eaten by this monster.
Finally we heard it loudly, " Gonna get ya. Got ya! Now I m gonna eat ya!" We peeked around the corner, and there was a little old lady in her rocker chair picking her nose and eating her boogers!

(Kids and boogers - go figure!)

Once there was a family, (a father, mother, sister and baby) who was camping in an old rickety Pop-Up (changing this to a camping story as I go...) . One evening while they were sitting down to s mores they heard a disembodied voice moan, " I m the ghost of Blue Eyes..."
The father, being the bravest as fathers of course are, crept out towards the trees to check it out. After a minute he came running back inside, jumped into the bunkend, and pulled the sheets over his head.
They heard it again, " I m the ghost of Blue Eyes..." Mom (who was also pretty brave) grabbed her s mores stick tightly and went off towards the trees with a determined look in her eyes. Suddenly she came running back, jumped in the pop-up and sat down shivering.
So sister (hey, this is how I remember it from my youth! []) decides to go. She disappears behind the trees and the baby (I m assuming this is like toddler age) hears " I m the ghost of Blue Eyes!" and sister runs back towards the pop-up screaming.
Finally the baby, who had had enough by now, grabs TWO s mores sticks and walks determinally towards the woods. He hears, quite loudly now, " I m the ghost of Blue Eyes!"
He says, " You better shut up, or you ll be the ghost of black eyes!!!"

I know, I know, but kids love it! [: (]

fivegonefishing · Apr 05, 2003, 11:34 AM

WayfarerThose are great stories...my three kids prefer songs, I have a song book that we sing cover to cover almost every night [&:]

Their favourite song is Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts (sung to " The old gray Mare" )

Great green gobs of
greasy grimy gopher guts,
mutilated monkey meat,
dirtly little pigeon s feet,
all mixed up with a
pile of poison possum pus,
and me with out my spoon,
and me without my spoon.
Great green gobs of
greasy grimy gopher guts,
and me without my spoon,
we ll use a straw!

My kids just love this song. Another favourite of all three (remember I have two boys) is:

Pink Pajamas (Sung to the Battle Hymm of the Republic)

I wear my pink pajamas
in the summer when it s hot,
I wear my flannel nighties
in the winter when it s not

And sometimes in the springtime
and sometimes in the fall,
I jump right in between the sheets
with nothing on at all

Glory, glory hallelujah,
Glory, glory hallelujah,
Balmy breezes blowing through ya,
With nothing on at all

[

]Tammy

Starryart · Apr 05, 2003, 09:28 PM

WayfarerHey I found this interesting website for kids camping ideas

http://www.freemanriver.com/Camping_Tips/activities_for_children_2.htm#A%20CAMPING%20WE%20WILL%20GO

hope this works...

tlhdoc · Apr 06, 2003, 12:14 AM

birol

QuoteORIGINAL: birol

Yes, more please, how do you guys think I am going to keep my monsters busy at night in VA ?

Birol

I thought you put everyone to sleep when you talk.[

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jackgoesthepopup · Apr 06, 2003, 01:53 PM

Wayfareri go camping to get away from that purple dino.And the teletubies. They should make prisoners watch thease show they would never want to come back. or is that cruel and unusual punishment.

Jo Ann · Apr 06, 2003, 02:55 PM

dee106

QuoteORIGINAL: dee106

remember clean ones! they have their granddaughter listening![8D]

well ...there went my story....shoot.

Gamecock Camper · Apr 06, 2003, 10:36 PM

WayfarerOk, so here is yet another song (sung to the tune, " If you re happy and you know it" ......

Is there a booger in my sugar
No it s snot.
Is there a booger in my sugar
No it s snot
Well I had a bunch for lunch
You could hear those suckers crunch
Is there a booger in my sugar
No it s snot.

(My kids love that song)....

birol · Apr 07, 2003, 09:19 AM

tlhdoc

QuoteI thought you put everyone to sleep when you talk.[]

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