Cook your Camp DIY team food

What can we use if we don't have aluminum foil, wooden skewers, or olive oil?

Use a covered oven-safe dish or parchment paper instead of foil, swap wooden skewers for clean chopsticks or short plastic fruit picks when threading fruit, and replace the drizzle of olive oil with a small pat of butter or cooking spray when adding the pre-cooked protein and chopped vegetables.

What should we do if the foil packets leak or the vegetables stay hard after cooking?

Fold the foil up around the food and seal the edges tightly, cut vegetables into uniform bite-size pieces or par-cook firm veggies before adding them to the foil, and ask an adult to cook the packets longer until they are hot and the vegetables are tender.

How can we change jobs so kids of different ages can help safely?

Give younger children simple, safe roles like threading fruit onto skewers, arranging pre-cut pieces on the foil, or being the cleaner, while older kids can use a child-safe knife to chop soft fruits, season the packets, and help with timing under adult supervision for the camp stove or oven steps.

How can we personalize or extend this activity for more fun or learning?

Create mini recipe cards for each foil-packet flavor, let teams experiment by adding herbs or citrus to the pre-cooked protein and chopped vegetables, design themed fruit skewers, then taste together and share photos and recipes on DIY.org to highlight teamwork outcomes.