Tie-Dye a Shirt

If you really want to hearken back to your own sleepaway camp days, re-create the uniform: a tie-dye shirt. Camp's Tulip Rainbow 5-Color Tie-Dye Kit comes with enough dye to make shirts for everyone in your family. (You can even get white logo shirts from them, too.) 

Have S'mores for Dessert

Making s'mores is basically the whole reason to have a backyard campout in the first place. You can go for the classic chocolate, graham cracker, and marshmallow combo — or try a variation on the theme, like this version that also has a layer of edible cookie dough. 

Play a Camping-Themed Board Game

Camping-related board games are a toy trend whether or not you plan on using them outside. Keep to the theme of the night by playing a round of Camp, where players are challenged with trivia questions about the great outdoors; Toasted or Roasted, which has players race to "toast" marshmallow cards while trying to put out their opponents' fires; or Camp Talk, which aims to start conversations by generating silly questions. 

Color Your Own Patches

If you're looking for more flair for your tent or pennant, try a scouting-inspired badge. You can make up ones to earn throughout the night, or get a kit like this set of iron-on patches and just color them in for fun. 

Tell Stories Around the Campfire

We all love a good ghost story, but campfire tales don't necessarily have to be straight out of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. In fact, it might be even more fun if your family makes up its own tall tale, with one person continuing where the last one left off. 

Play Flashlight Tag

It's hide-and-seek — in the dark! But if you get caught in a flashlight beam, you're out! (Too hard? Glow stick bracelets might make the finding a little easier.)

Stargaze

Even if you don't have a telescope, there are plenty of apps that will help you identify what's going around in the night sky above you, demystifying what you can see with the naked eye. Sometimes, the International Space Station even comes into view, and you don't need any instruments to spot it. 

Screen a Backyard Movie

Bring the drive-in experience to your backyard. You'll need an outdoor projector (like this one, which has more than 10,600 positive reviews on Amazon) and a screen — or a white sheet, which might feel even more like a summer camp experience. Don't forget the popcorn!

Make a Pretend Campfire

If you have real little campers at home and you don't want them going near a real campfire, give them the version that uses their imaginations. Fisher-Price's role-playing camping set comes with fabric s'mores and a cloth fire to roast them on (made with crinkle paper). It even comes with a stuffed "axe" to split the "log" for the fire, and bear gloves in case a hungry animal wants to pretend to sneak in and steal the treats. (An inflatable campfire also works.) 

Wake up With Breakfast Sandwiches

Breakfast is the most important camping meal, after all. With this egg-and-cheese receipe, you can even do a little prep — you can freeze it ahead of time if you think you'll be too overwhelmed cleaning up to make them from scratch.