A Bed in a Box

David Camps Johnson is in a beaver pack.

Their week-end activity was to have a camp-out: they were to make and sleep in a bed in a box. The goal was to take large boxes, like the ones sofa’s or refrigerators come in, and create some kind of place you would like to sleep in – a car, a building, an igloo, and in David’s case, ... a tree.

The fathers who attended knew to bring along an exacto knife and some duct tape, at the very least.  The more skilled fathers brought along electric saws to help cut out doors and windows.

Bonnie didn’t know to come with anything but the boxes, so she and David spent a lot of time borrowing from others. 

“Don’t worry.  There are no points taken off for ugly,” one of the father’s quipped to Bonnie.

Hayden’s sister came over to help Bonnie and David by adding graffiti to his tree, as well as sleeping over with them.  Room for two now became a room for three, with Bonnie spending very little of the night asleep.

Of any of the children, Bonnie thinks that David did the most work on his creation.  That is because he kept asking her to stop helping; she just didn’t understand the creative genius that was to emerge as his “tree-bed in a box”.

Bonnie says, "I have no desire to ever camp in a box again.”

David Camps says, “I had no idea camping could be so much fun.”