Thread: Hunting with kids under 10 - must haves

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

if you going to take a cooker......hide a bag of marshmellows in bottom of your pack,,,stop alongthe way and pick/cut a couple or four toasting stakes and give them to little miss for safe keeping without telling her what they are for...then after your noodles n hot milo...toasted marshmellows!!!!! you will be superDad for months.

Yep i did this with my kids when i first took them up the hills. We were walking along in the middle of the bush and i said to my daughter (about 5 then) how would you like a hot choc/fluffy, she looked at me oddly, then said yeah sure dad i'd love one, but how?

So we stopped, I pulled my gas stove from my bag, and proceeded to boil up some water and make her a hot choc, even had choc sprinkles and mashmallows. She was blown away, and absolutely loved it.

I also take a piece of closed cell foam mat cut to fit down inside the back of my pack, i use it for sitting on when sitting glassing etc, so i gave her that to sit down on. Sometimes it's just the little things that make it all that much more enjoyable for them and make them feel special.

Attention spam is pretty short at that age, so need lots of other things to break it up and distract them from the boredom ;-). Lots of stops for snacks and water and take the time to stop and look at things along the way that normally we would simply walk past as we have seen them a million times, but its all new to them.

Ie funny fungus growing on trees, any odd weird little thing that catches their interest, take the time to stop and talk about it (if they want to)

We had some funny experiences with my kids, and i managed to get plenty of pics and some video footage of some of it, and its so precious looking back at it now.

Enjoy.