What's Inside · 50 pages, eight phases of camp
Hear what camp was really like.
Camp Journal is a guided keepsake journal — 50 beautifully illustrated pages of warmly worded prompts, checklists, and open-ended questions that help campers capture the feelings, friendships, and moments that define a summer. In their own handwriting. In their own voice.
$14.95 · ships free. Also available on Amazon.
Captures camp while it's happening.
By the time the camper's back in the car, the names of the cabinmates are blurring and the songs are half-remembered. Camp Journal catches the specifics — in the camper's own handwriting — before they slip away. The real stories, not the four-word version.
Every summer, kids come home with a few quick answers and a lot left unsaid.
Camp Journal changes that. With warmly worded prompts and beautiful illustrations on every page, it helps campers capture the feelings, friendships, and moments that define a summer.
Most camp journals are blank books. Camp Journal is built for this job.
A note from the counselor.
One page is reserved for the camp staff member who knows the camper best — in the counselor's own words, unprompted. A treasure within a keepsake.
Catches what kids hear, smell, notice.
Sensory prompts pull out the details memory drops first — the sound of the cabin at night, the smell of the mess hall, the cricket that wouldn't quit. Part of the experience kids would otherwise forget.
Reveals how they felt, not just what they did.
Prompts surface the inner experience — what surprised them, what got them out of their comfort zone, what they learned about themselves. A mirror you rarely get.
Honors the hard days too.
One page is called Not Such a Great Day — a mud-stained jacket illustration, a blank space, no prompt. Everyone can have a bad day, and writing about it, unprompted, can help.
Built so kids actually fill it out.
Checkboxes that require no writing. Sentence completions that supply most of the work. Doodle space for kids who'd rather draw. Engaging prompts (many of them humorous) that don't feel like homework.
No rules. No wrong answers. Skip around, come back, share as much or as little as the camper likes.
Something they'll open for years.
Long after the summer is over, the family will open this journal and read what the camper noticed. Grandparents too — most aren't part of the post-camp kitchen-table conversation, and Camp Journal lets them in. In ten years, the camper will open it themselves. Loved by kids. Treasured by parents and grandparents.
Trusted by camps and families since 1999.
The original Camp Journal was carried by L.L. Bean, Barnes & Noble, and leading specialty stores and camps across the country. Named a Dr. Toy Best Product for Kids. Updated for 2026 with new content and all new, original illustrations.
"In the end, long after summer's over, parents and campers both will have something to save and look back on."
The Sacramento Bee · May 30, 1998
$14.95. Less than a camp T-shirt — and you'll still have it when the T-shirt's gone.
How to get Camp Journal.
Order at campjournal.com — free shipping, ships in 1–2 business days. Or add it to your next Amazon order — Prime two-day shipping. Camp Journal is also carried by select specialty stores and camps.