We're camping with the grandkidz this weekend and I need some campfire stories to tell them....scary and not scary...they'd love them all. Any suggestions are appreciated.
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This website Spooky Campfire Stories, will give you some that you can pick from.
Good luck with the grandkids. Whatever you do or find they will love it since you are the one doing it. You're spending time with them and that is the most important.
Two ideas - neither of which require learning new stories. One is a story you create on the spot, the other is really a game people of all ages can play together:
Cabbagehead - Old Victorian game. One person begins a made-up story, then stops and passes it to someone else. You get some amazingly weird and funny stories this way. Any kid old enough to talk can play. If you start the game yourself, you can make the story just as scary or non-scary as you please, of course.
Einstein - In this game, the first person says a noun of their own choosing. The next person prefixes an adjective or adverb of their own choosing then repeats it back in order. The next person prefixes another adjective or adverb to the previous, and repeats the whole thing back. So it would go 'motorboat', then 'purple motorboat', then 'atomic-powered purple motorboat', etc. The first one to lose track of the growing 'invention' and fail to repeat it back loses. I have taught even very young kids the parts of speech without them realizing it in about 10 or 15 minutes this way, though most kids will play much longer once they get the idea of it. The memory part is harder for many adults, so it's a fair game where a reasonably sharp 7 year-old can kick your ancient butt and get the bragging rights. Plus, you come up with some pretty outrageous and amazing inventions that will keep everyone laughing. You can also theme the game a little by starting with the noun 'monster' - or whatever suits your activity.
I always tell tales about a "friend" of mine.... O.D. Cleaver.
OD was one heck of a man with maybe a twisted sense of life.
Why once me an' OD were out in our favorite campin spot an' OD was practin' his ropin' skill.
Well ol' OD jes happened to rope him a bull elk. That elk didn't take to well to havin' a rope around his neck so he took off up the mountain side, with OD hangin' on for dear life to the rope. 'Bout three hours later OD came draggin' back to camp all scratched up, bruised, an' jes lookin' like he'd gone 10 rounds with a bear.
I asked OD what happened an' he said that elk drug him through brambles, briars, pines an' all sorts of stuff, up over the ridge, down the tother side, through the crik, an' finally wedged OD 'tween two big rocks.
I said, "OD why didn't you jes let go of the rope?"
Welp.... OD looked at me sorta funny an' said, "Are you nuts? I paid two dollars fer that brand new rope!"
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"When I was a kid" stories are great as long as you leave out the "I had to walk 10 miles to school up hills both way" etc. I've gotten into genealogy in the last 10 years and how I wish I could sit around the campfire with my parents/grandparents and listen again to the stories they would tell!
The grandkids might be able to tell you lots of stories too. Some of the best conversations we had with our 4 children were around camp fires! Sharon
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