The Best Tent Toilet
Do you camp with your little children? Find out why our tent toilet is Momma's favorite camping equipment with littles. It makes life so much easier.
The bathroom is one of the hardest things for me when camping with littles. I do not like using the public bathrooms while camping with my children all day and night. I would be running to the bathroom all day long with my four littles.
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It is even worse when it is a pit toilet. I don’t like using pit toilets, let alone my little children using them. I know that they won’t, but I always feel like my children are going to fall down into the pit toilet, especially when it is my two year old littlest one… Does anyone else feel like that or is it just me?
Four years ago I discovered my favorite camping equipment with littles, OUR OWN TOILET!!!
It is so nice for my children to run into the vestibule of our tent, not leave our campsite and go to the bathroom as many times as they want. It is also REALLY nice to not have to take numerous walks to the bathroom in the middle of the night or …overflow the pee bottle in the tent…
We learned about this the year before at Grand Teton National Park from an older couple who did not want to have to leave their tent in the middle of the night. The first time we used this we were camping at Rocky Mountain National Park. We had a 2, 4, 6 & 8 year old all needing to use the potty. When we got to the campground we were told that the bathrooms were really primitive and were all pit toilets, the really scary deep kind of pit toilets. We were extra thankful for our own potty that we brought.
You can buy a potty already together with a toilet seat like this, but it is much more inexpensive to go to a store like Home Depot and get a 5 gallon bucket and buy a toilet seat like this for it. This seat is really nice because the other one can fall off or be a little top heavy so this one just snaps onto the 5 gallon bucket. This is our favorite toilet seat for littles that we used on our toilet. We do recommend having a tent with a vestibule because that means the rainfly covers your tent completely and you will stay dry in the rain (look at this article for more description on tents). But if you do not have a tent with a vestibule you can get a pop up privacy tent for your bathroom, which is a great option!
We used 13 gallon trash bags for the liner of the bucket. We got them at Costco and never had one rip or leak. Make sure you get quality trash bags as you wouldn’t want them to rip or leak. You can buy these on Amazon as well. Then we changed it out 2-3 times a day.
Next time your family goes camping make sure you take your own toilet!
I’d rather give my children a life of adventure than a house full of stuff!
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