{"id":18363,"date":"2011-09-12T20:01:12","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T00:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/?p=18363"},"modified":"2014-05-09T00:08:33","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T04:08:33","slug":"great-toys-to-bring-camping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/great-toys-to-bring-camping\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Toys to Bring Camping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s be real here, when our family goes camping our van is packed to the ceiling. Between two tents, eight sleeping bags, pillows, supplies, food, and people there isn&#8217;t much extra space.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/files\/2011\/09\/army-men.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18364\" src=\"\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/files\/2011\/09\/army-men.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/files\/2011\/09\/army-men.jpg 550w, https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/files\/2011\/09\/army-men-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve found that bringing too many toys just wastes (valuable) space in the car and the kids don&#8217;t end up playing with them anyway. After several camping trips here are the toys that made the cut!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target = \"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000ID1B2K\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thehaphou-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399369&amp;creativeASIN=B000ID1B2K\">Army Men<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B000ID1B2K&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399369\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/li>\n<li><a target = \"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0007871V6\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thehaphou-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399369&amp;creativeASIN=B0007871V6\">Butterfly Net<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B0007871V6&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399369\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/li>\n<li><a target = \"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B001BMBGJK\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thehaphou-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399369&amp;creativeASIN=B001BMBGJK\">Bug House<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B001BMBGJK&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399369\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/li>\n<li><a target = \"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B002K3YPX8\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thehaphou-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399369&amp;creativeASIN=B002K3YPX8\">Nerf Football<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B002K3YPX8&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399369\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/li>\n<li><a target = \"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B002K3YPX8\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thehaphou-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399369&amp;creativeASIN=B002K3YPX8\">Nerf Football<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B002K3YPX8&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399369\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/li>\n<li><a target = \"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B002DJFPOM\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thehaphou-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399373&amp;creativeASIN=B002DJFPOM\">Lighted Frisbee<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B002DJFPOM&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399373\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/li>\n<li><a target = \"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00004YURI\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thehaphou-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399373&amp;creativeASIN=B00004YURI\">Metal Detector<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B00004YURI&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399373\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We try to bring things that are small or &#8220;special&#8221; (aka for camping only) to keep the kids interested.\u00a0 What are your favorite toys to bring camping?<\/p>\n<p><a>.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s be real here, when our family goes camping our van is packed to the ceiling. 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I&#8217;ve found that bringing too many toys just wastes (valuable) space in the car and the kids don&#8217;t end up playing with them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18364,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18363","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kids","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21285,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18363\/revisions\/21285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}