Doll Summer Camp for Nature Lovers

Just a few crafts for doll campers from our listings below: sleeping bags, breakfast skillets,
a paper mache campfire and bedroll.

        What doll can resist the call of the woods, the desire to know the forest and its furred and feathered inhabitants, the fish, the insects, the plants? But to gather this knowledge, in safety, the dolls must first learn the ways of the woods, the life of the camper, how to cook and find their way by the stars, how to tie knots and what to do in case of accident, the language of signs and the secrets of the trail. There is no better way to do this than to explore and participate at our doll summer camp for nature lovers.  

No Sew scout vest made for our
smaller dolls using felt.

Things to Craft So That Your Dolls Can Set Up Camp: Artifacts depicting campers from long ago...

• Sew Super Sweet Sleeping Bags for 18inch Dolls
• Cut and Paste Your Doll's Campfire
• How to Recycle a Hammock For a Doll
• No Sew Scout Vests for Slender 18" Dolls 
• How The Old Folks Made Camp
• New Girl's Camp Movement, 1914
  
• Having fun at camp over 100 years ago...
• Girl Scout postcards from the past...
• How to make doll camp foods
• A Vintage Boy Scout paper doll - mechanical
• Scout clothespin doll craft - Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts, Campfire Girls, Brownies and Girl Scouts of America.
• Craft a Camouflage Binoculars for 18" Dolls
• Write about Flossie and how she and her friends camp-out in Grandpa's backyard - fun writing exercise for doll campers
• Make a doll's camp lantern that really lights up!
  
• Make easy camp sit-upons for your dolls
• Craft doll camp kazoos - tiny instruments, easy for kids and dolls to play
• Craft visors for dolls to wear in the summer sun...
• Craft fashionable doll flip-flops! - three examples
• Flossie Floats a Boat and Builds A Raft - read what Flossie does with your eyes and write her story in your own words
  

Things Smart Dolls Learn Before Hiking:

• The Constellations by Mitton  and How to Navigate using the Stars 
• Scout Trail Markers by Scout TV 
• How does a compass work? from Owlkids
• AG Dolls Go Hiking, stop motion by bluepastelsandpolkadots
• Tips for hiking with kids from Crazy Family Adventure 
• Indoor Hiking Adventure! by Liberty Girls 

Scout/Campfire coloring pages and printables for doll play: 

• Free Coloring Pages About Camping and Scouting
• A Free Coloring Book for Smokey's Friends
• Betty Bonnet's Camp-Fire Cousin
• What your doll might see and draw while camping...
  

More Doll Tent Crafts:

• DIY 18" American Girl Doll Camping Tent Craft Tutorial
• How to make a foldable 18" Doll Sized Tent

Old Campfire Poems:

• In The Cabin
• In Camp
• The Brave Boy
• Our Camp

Ways To Dress Your Doll For Camp:

• The 1914 Scout Uniform for 18" Doll Clothes Pattern
• Shop for American Girl Doll Girl Scout Uniforms
• Free American Girl Doll Patterns: Girl Scout Uniform
• 18" dolls Girl Scout Junior Uniform from Emily Rose
• Scout Club Uniforms for 18'' Boy Dolls (pattern)
• Vintage to Contemporary Scout and Campfire Girl Uniforms

Traditional Camp Fire Songs:

• Kumbaya Song: About (with words) and Listen
• I'm a Nut! (Traditional Camp Song) and words
• On Top of Spaghetti and words
• Row Your Boat and Baby Shark Action Camp Songs and words
• Boom Chicka Boom from The Learning Station
• Over In The Meadow with Words
• Aram Sam Sam Dance with Words
• Father Abraham Had Many Sons with Words
• If You're Happy and You Know It! with words and movements
• The Arky, Arky Song by Heritage Kids with Lyrics
• I've Got Peace Like A River with action and lyrics
• Sing Hosanna - I've Got The Joy, Joy, Joy
• The Other Day I Met A Bear and words
• Teach your dolls or baby siblings "We're Goin' On A Bear Hunt"
• "This Little Light of Mine" words and music by Listener Kids

SWAPS short for "Special Whatchamacallits Affectionately Pinned Somewhere" that also make great doll sized crafts for your friends at camp! There have been many requests for these. I will also include a few that are specific to different Scouting groups.

1. Soft Braided Pretzel SWAPS
2. Mini Campfire Bundle  
3. Assemble Italian Spumone Sodas
4. Craft tiny canteens for a doll's camping trip, or SWAPS
5. Mini Breakfast Skillets
6. Craft a Pom-pom Caterpillar SWAPS
7. Make Mini Golf Tee Flashlights
8. Bake a Dinosaur Footprint Charm 
9. Make faux rock candy for a SWAPS
10. Make Miniature S'mores
11. Assemble a Threaded Spool SWAPS
12. Craft a Small Wooden Gumball Machine 
13. Craft Cotton Candy for Dollplay or SWAPS
14. Roll and Sew A Tiny Bedroll 
15. Craft Small Award Ribbons
16. Make a Magician's Top Hat SWAPS
17. Miniature Flower Vases
18. Craft a sleeping bag with a doll inside
19. Chenille Stem Lollipops
20. How to Make a Doll Sized Cardboard Loom
21. DIY Movie Theater Popcorn for Dolls
22. Sew a Stack of Felt Pancakes
23. Twist and Tie Yarn Butterflies

Read And Learn About Natural History: Little lessons about nature are included here for kids to explore with their dolls at summer camp. You can also: take them on a family vacation, or read these aloud at a doll campsite set up in your own backyard, or even share them in a nature center at school.

1. The Importance of Conservation
2. Learn About Baby Birds
3. Cottontail Rabbits
4. Learn About Baby Snakes
5. Insect Mimicry and Protective Coloration
6. Bats, Ace Fliers
7. Land Otters
8. Beavers As Engineers 
9. White-tailed Fawns
10. Insect Guests In Our Gardens
11. Dogs
12. Red Fox Family
13. Frog Eggs and Tadpoles
14. Glimpses of Ant Life
15. Rivers As Sculptors of The Land
16. Hibernation
17. The Story of Bread
18. The Plants in A Woodland Community
19. Nature's Crystals
20. Horns and Antlers
21. The American Porcupine
22. Pollen and Nectar Carriers
23. Musquash The Muskrat
24. The Weasel And The Mink
25. The Skunk and It's Habits
26. Sir Stickleback, The Hedgehog
27. Bears
28. The Common Snapping Turtle
29. Hibernation is Normal To Many Animals
30. Some Ways of Self-Preservation Among Animals
31. The Fish That Children Catch

Discover More Natural History Online:

• The Field Museum in Chicago
• The National Museum of Natural History at The Smithsonian  
• The American Museum of Natural History in New York
• Missouri Historical Society

History of Camp For Little Girls in The United States:

• Learn History of The Camp Fire Girls of America and Visit The Current Organization Today and Browse the old Camp Fire Girls manuals for activities
• Learn History of The Girl Scouts and Visit The Current Organization then Browse the old Girl Scout manuals for activities
• Learn about the Girls In Action and The Acteens Sponcered by the WMU and the history of the WMU
• The Wohelo Camps, The old manual "Sebago-Wohelo Camp Fire Girls" and the history of Camp Fire Girls
• The World Association of Girl Guides and Scouts, and their history in Great Britain

Free Summer Reading at Project Gutenberg: Recommended Reading: Books About Camp Fire Girls - Juvenile Fiction 
The following ten titles are by Hildegard G. Frey:

• The Camp Fire Girls in the Maine Woods - (The Winnebago's Go Camping)
• The Camp Fire Girls at School - (The Wohelo Weavers)
• The Camp Fire Girls at Onoway House - (The Magic Garden)
• The Camp Fire Girls Go Motoring - (Along the Road That Leads the Way)
• The Camp Fire Girls Larks and Pranks - (The House of the Open Door)
• The Camp Fire Girls on Ellen's Isle - (Trail of the Seven Cedar)s
• The Camp Fire Girls on the Open Road - (Glorify Work)
• The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit - (Over The Top With the Winnebago's)
• The Camp Fire Girls Solve a Mystery - (The Christmas Adventures at Carver House)
• The Camp Fire Girls at Camp Keewaydin - (Down Paddles)

The following titles are by Margaret Love Sanderson:

• The Camp Fire Girls on a Yacht
• The Camp Fire Girls at Driftwood Heights

The following titles are by Isabel Hornibrook:

• Pemrose Lorry, Camp Fire Girl
• Girls of the Morning-Glory Camp Fire
• Camp Fire Girls in Ware and Peace

The following titles are by Irene Elliott Benson:

• How Ethel Hollister Became a Campfire Girl
• Campfire Girls' Lake Camp; or, Searching for New Adventures
• Ethel Hollister's Second Summer as a Campfire Girl

The following titles are by Margaret Vandercook:

• The Camp Fire Girls in the Outside World
• The Camp Fire Girls in After Years
• The Camp Fire Girls Across the Seas
• The Camp Fire Girls' Careers
• The Camp Fire Girls in Glorious France
• The Camp Fire Girls at The End of The Trail
• The Camp Fire Girls Behind the Lines
• The Camp Fire Girls at Sunrise Hill
• The Camp Fire Girls Amid the Snows
• The Camp Fire Girls at Half Moon Lake
• The Camp Fire Girls by The Blue Lagoon
• The Camp Fire Girls on The Field of Honor

The following titles are by Jane L. Stewart:

• The Camp Fire Girls at Long Lake; Or, Bessie King in Summer Camp:
• The Camp Fire Girls on The Farm; Or, Bessie King's New Chum
• The Camp Fire Girls in the Mountains; Or, Bessie King's Strange Adventure
• A Campfire Girl's Test of Friendship
• The Campfire Girl's Happiness
• The Campfire Girl's First Council Fire
• The Camp Fire Girls at The Seashore; Or, Bessie King's Happiness
• The Camp Fire Girls on The March; Or, Bessie King's Test of Friendship

The following titles are by Stella M. Francis:

• Campfire Girls' Lake Camp; or, Searching for New Adventures
• Campfire Girls at Twin Lakes; Or, The Quest of a Summer Vacation
• Campfire Girls in the Allegheny Mountains; or, A Christmas Success Against Odds
• Campfire Girl's Outing; Or, Ethel Hollister's Second Summer in Camp

The following titles are by Margaret Penrose:

• The Campfire Girls of Roselawn; Or, a Strange Message From the Air
• The Campfire Girls on Station Island; Or, The Wireless from The Steam Yacht

The following titles are by Margaret Widdemer:

• Winona of the Camp Fire

The following titles are by I. T. Thurston:

• The Torch Bearer: A Camp fire Girl's Story

The following titles are by Howard Roger Garis:

• The Camp Fire Girls; Or, The Secret of an Old Mill