Have you heard of The Wild Night Out? I hadn’t until the fab people over at Millets and Blacks asked if I fancied taking part. Unfortunately I can’t on the night it is taking part this year but they asked me for my opinion* on Eurohike tent and a couple of Berghaus sleeping bags to do it another night. If you are looking for tents or sleeping bags, Blacks and Millets have some fab offers on at the mo. They also have some great Berhaus accessories too.
The Wild Night Out is taking part tomorrow, Saturday 30th June. It is the National Day of Adventure. It’s aim is to get friends, families and groups together, to venture outdoors and take part in fun activities.
When I got the tent from the parcel, Lucas’ face lit up and he couldn’t wait to put it up. We put it up in the garden and we got some books and read them in the porch area of the tent. We haven’t slept in it yet but we had a little party, dancing inside the tent!
If you want to take part in The Wild Night Out, it doesn’t need to be hard work and you don’t need to camp if you don’t have time to get a tent but isn’t it a fab excuse to get rid of the TVs and tablets for a day and/or night and spend quality time as a family outside.
These are a few ideas I have thought of
- Have a BBQ
- Play games in the garden
- Make some bubbles
- Have a picnic at the park (Thimble and Twig have some fab picnic ideas)
- Go for a walk
- Go geocaching
- Go on a scavenger hunt
- Go for a bike ride
- Have a treasure hunt
- Get some solar lights in the garden and stay up late looking at stars
- Invite some friends round
- Go paddling in a paddling pool in the garden or local steam
- Do some gardening
- Visit the ducks
- Paint some rocks
We absolutely 100% agree. We actually home educate so it’s so much easier for us to control screen time and we try to get out as much as possible. We’ll certainly take a look at The Wild Night Out!
What fun ideas! One of the best outings we had before having the boys, was a camping one. It was a few years ago now, but we had such a laugh. Can’t wait to do it again, but this time with the kiddies. x
The statistic about how little time children spend outdoors and instead spend in front of a screen is terrifying! We have reduced screen time massively in our house and our daughter is now signed up for various outdoor events (including her first spartan race) which require her to train – she’s spending much more time outdoors. Great ideas too 🙂
What a lovely idea. It looks so much fun 🙂
Oh we were hoping to do this tonight but there is way too much smoke from the fire! It stinks!
Ah I didn’t know about this, my kids would have loved to sleep outside for the night!
Such a lovely idea that I hope to try with my little boy. We need a new tent first though.
Mine love camping and especially lighting the fire and making smores
When I read the title, I thought this post was going to be about getting arrested, or possibly hangover cures! It’s a great idea for an activity though, we love camping, but you could easily make a den in the house, if you weren’t keen on being outside!