The Sleeping Bag

A sleeping bag is like a cozy bed you can carry with you. It is a long bag filled with soft, warm stuffing. You zip yourself inside and stay warm all night. Sleeping bags are great for camping trips and sleepovers.

The First Sleeping Bags

A Welsh man named Pryce Pryce-Jones made the first modern sleeping bag in the 1870s. He called it the Euklisia Rug. It was a wool blanket sewn up the sides with a pocket for a pillow. Soldiers and explorers loved them. He even sold them to armies around the world.

Sleeping Bags Today

Today's sleeping bags are much lighter and warmer. Some are filled with soft duck feathers called down. Others use fluffy man-made fibers. The best sleeping bags can keep you warm even in snowy weather. They roll up small so you can fit them in a backpack.

Fun Facts

• Mummy-shaped sleeping bags are shaped like a mummy to keep in more heat.
• Astronauts on the space station sleep in sleeping bags attached to walls.
• Some sleeping bags can keep you warm below freezing temperatures.

Did You Know?

Climbers who go up tall mountains use special sleeping bags that work in very cold and icy air.