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We all loved this meal while camping and also enjoy it at home, it is easy and quick.  All you need is:

• Frankfurts
• 2 tins baked beans
• 1 Onion
• 2 tomatos

1. dice onions and tomatos, slice frankfurts
2. fry onions
3. add tomatos
4. add frankfurts
5. stir in baked beans
6. enjoy!

Hope you enjoy this recipe!

Jen

A holiday treasure box is a great momento of your holiday for your children.  It will keep them occupied and involved in your trip or holiday.  Any sort of box can be used, we found plastic boxes with compartments in them, but a cardboard box could also be used.  Encourage your child to collect ‘treasures’ along your trip such as:

• beach shells
• rocks
• tickets
• feathers
• brochures
• sand

The type of holiday you have will determine the items in the treasure box, but what every your child wants to collect should be encouraged.  He / she can enjoy sorting through their treasures on the trip and then back at home after.

For other fun toddler activies visit baby-patch

Jen

You better hurry for this great holiday offer, $500 to spend at ToysRUs.  Just click here to get your gift card.  I am not sure how long this offer will be avaliable so you better hurry!  (for US Residents Only)

Jen

Many of our friends said we were crazy to plan a 3 week camping trip with a 20 month old and 3.5 year old - but we all had a ball.  Driving 5000km around Western Australia was awesome, we camped mainly in caravan parks to give us access to amenities and only ‘bush’ camped for a few nights.  We planned ahead and had lots of activities for the long road trips, some of the things that kept us sane were:

• A child friendly map of the trip that our 3 year old could place a sticker on each destination once we reached it
• A bag of small gifts for both children that could be pulled out and given to them to play with in the car (these were rationed to last the whole trip)
• “tickets” for each long trip, for a 500km trip the kids got 5 tickets stappled together - once we completed 100km they exchanged a ticket for a lolly and could count the number of tickets left giving them a sense of how much longer we had to go.  This worked really well.
• Lots of music and audio books
• General car games like ‘Spotto” and 20 questions

Our kids loved sleeping in a tent, once the novelty wore off they went to sleep without a problem and we all managed to have a great trip.

Jen