Recommended Items for Troops to Take to Camp

  1. Lawn chairs for leaders (rocking chair is optional for Scoutmaster)
  2. Funds for emergencies and supplies while at camp
  3. Games for campsite
  4. Reference materials for Skits and Cheers
  5. Cooking equipment for Wednesday meals
  6. Stories for camp fire
  7. Eating utensils for in camp meals
  8. Sharpening kit (ax, knife)
  9. Troop Flag
  10. American flag (or Canadian Flag if from Canada)
  11. Troop Merit Badge pamphlet library and any reference materials for studies
  12. Troop First Aid Kit - include sun screen, mosquito repellent
  13. Battery operated clock
  14. Cooler for ice, extra foodstuffs, medicine storage
  15. Fire starters
  16. Spices, sugar, cinnamon, pepper, salt, condiments, coffee, tea, creamer
  17. Patrol Flags or construction materials to make them at camp
  18. Duct tape (tent repair, coverings for thumbs during woodcarving)
  19. Supply tent
  20. Portable tables
  21. Clothesline and clothes pins
  22. Binder twine
  23. Rope
  24. Buckets with sealing lids (kindling, clothes washer, storage)
  25. Soft soap and dispenser for wash basin
  26. Dutch ovens and equipment for them
  27. Citronella candles
  28. Aluminum foil
  29. Large trash bags
  30. Cobbler mixes / personal pie fixings
  31. Personal pie irons
  32. Instant soup mixes
  33. Peanut butter and jelly
  34. Hand ax and bow saw
  35. Plastic ground clothes for wilderness survival
  36. Lanterns and fuel
  37. #10 cans
  38. Dishwashing equipment
  39. Cots