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This article is from the Outdoor Activities for Young Children FAQ, by Gloria Logan glogan@atk.com with numerous contributions by others.

28 GENERAL CAMPING: blankets

Funny how sometime after 12 months children asleep resemble
helicopters, rotating round the bed, waking one every so often with a
knee here, a head butt there...

I used blankets with Deborah on those trips in her 2nd-to-3rd year, not
a sleeping bag. I don't describe what we used after she turned 3 and
1/2, because due to mom's allegations, we didn't even see each other,
let alone camp... Now (age 9 last Wednesday) we use a rectangular
fiberfill bag, fully zippered, which takes care of a reasonable range
of temperatures, is still warm when wet (and pre-teens manage to wet
things too with spilled cocoa, or a bag dropped in a puddle, or we ship
water in the kayak). Really _cold_ nights ski camping a Pendelton
blanket adds warmth and color. This year we'll do hut ski tour camping!

 

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