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If you have boys, then you don't need a bucket...take an empty (wide-mouthed) Lenor fabric conditioner bottle.

When they need a pee, there's enough room for them to pop their willies into the top of the bottle, and do what they need to (only works for wee, obviously)

Tip it out and rinse through the next day...and it still smells of a fragrant summer meadow!

I'd never camp without one!

(works for girls too, but in a more precarious-balancing-plastic-funnel-on-the-top kind of a way...)

I have a 6yr old and i try to camp on sites that either have a swimming pool or indoor play area nearby so that if bad weather lurks, he still has plenty to do.  I also prefer having a playpark insitu, facilities for laundry, and evening curfew for all campers (nowt worse then hearing overgrown idiots chuckling away at drunken jokes at midnight, dont put up with neighbours sh*te, so not likely to on holiday)

I also ensure that the tesco clubcard vouchers are exch, arranged for suitable days out for the family, last year we used them at camelot theme park!  

I have also taken along the nintendo ds and dvd player for evenings!

as for toilet runs, last year i was using pyjama shorts for my wee one (bed wetting -anxiety), this year i'm not sure if he'll still wear them!  (dry overnight).  Personaly wouldnt use any form of container unless it was single use only.  

Thanks for all the great tips, advice and insights. We're just planning our first-ever family camping trip with our 5 and nearly-3 year olds. I grew up caravanning, laterly with my own tent at the side, but hubby has only been camping once - it rained all weekend.

What a great little community this is