Personalised potty training camping book for children

What happens in your child's Camping Loo Surprise

1. Your child helps put up the tent and notices the campsite loo.
2. A trusted grown-up walks with your child to explore the blue door.
3. Your child tries the toilet and learns where the flush and handwash are.
4. A small accident happens, and dry clothes are found without any fuss.
5. Your child returns to the tent for a cosy evening, feeling pleased to have had a try.

How the first page could read

Your child’s tent was tucked between two tall hedges at the campsite. There was a sleeping bag, a torch and a mug for warm milk. Then your child noticed a small wooden building with a blue door. “What’s in there?” your child asked. A trusted grown-up smiled. “Let’s go and see together.”

Your child’s name, look and little details replace these words, and the whole story is written for their age.

Why this story works

Camping changes the usual toilet routine just enough to make it a useful, low-pressure setting for children aged two to five. The loo is presented as an unfamiliar but ordinary part of a family trip: there is a door, a light, a flush and a nearby grown-up. Your child can see that it is fine to pause, ask for help and try again. A small accident is handled calmly, with dry clothes and no fuss, before the story returns to snacks, torchlight and the tent. Seeing their own face in the illustrations makes the campsite sequence easy to talk about at home.

Reading it together

• Read the loo-exploring pages before a camping trip or another outing with an unfamiliar toilet.
• Pause when your child has an accident in the story and remind them that grown-ups can help with getting changed.
• Let your child point out the toilet, flush and handwashing steps on each reread.

Suggested art style: Storybook watercolour

Soft watercolour keeps the campsite, tent and little loo block welcoming and calm. A sidekick idea: a curious campsite robin. You can pick any of the four styles and change the details in the form.