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Sixteen tricks, a bottle of ketchup, and one very fake gummy snake turn a campsite into a prank battlefield.
Troom Troom, the multinational DIY channel built on oversaturated colors and household-supply chaos, dropped “16 Camping Pranks And Life Hacks” as a guide to surviving — and sabotaging — a trip with friends. Published August 11, 2019, the video skips actual wilderness survival skills entirely in favor of craft-store gags: canvas tents rigged with pom-poms, a ketchup bottle loaded with edible glitter, and a plastic toy beetle deployed for maximum scream value.
- The video’s official supply list runs through canvas, pom-poms, twine, acrylic and silver spray paints, tulle, a visor, sequin trim, nylon tights, and cardboard boxes as its craft-side arsenal.
- Food-based pranks rely on bananas, milk chocolate, foil, chips, salami, cheese, and ketchup doctored with edible glitter.
- Specialty prank props include stabilized moss, hot glue, hand sanitizer, a plastic toy beetle, acrylic polish, and a gummy snake mounted on a skewer.
Craft Supplies Standing In For Camp Gear
Nothing on Troom Troom’s list resembles a typical packing checklist for a real trip into the woods. Instead of a tent stake or a water filter, the channel’s builds lean on canvas and cardboard boxes reshaped with hot glue, spray paint, and twine into campsite props. Silver spray paint and acrylic paints handle the finishing touches, while tulle, a visor, and a length of sequin trim get repurposed into costume-style camping “gear” rather than anything with functional outdoor use.
Nylon tights show up too, part of the channel’s signature trick of turning ordinary drugstore items into stand-ins for equipment nobody would actually pack. It is a style that has made Troom Troom’s tutorials easy to binge — bright, fast-cut, and visually simple enough to follow with the sound off — even as the projects themselves stray far from anything resembling real bushcraft. For a channel that has spent years covering fixes for the outdoors, from makeshift tent builds using plastic wrap to shelter tricks improvised on the fly, Troom Troom’s version swaps function for spectacle.
The Food Pranks Carry The Video
The comedy hinges on food more than anything else. A banana gets doctored, milk chocolate and foil combine for a switcheroo gag, and a pack of chips becomes a prop for a snack-based setup. Salami and cheese round out a fake charcuterie bit, while the ketchup bottle — spiked with edible glitter — is rigged to surprise whoever squeezes it next.
A ketchup bottle mixed with edible glitter and a gummy snake mounted on a skewer are the two props doing the most comedic work in the entire video.
The gummy snake on a skewer plays the same role a rubber snake would in any campsite scare gag, except it is edible — meant to double as both prank and dessert once the joke lands. It is the kind of low-stakes, low-cost trick that fits the channel’s whole approach: cheap materials, big reactions, minimal setup time.
Props Built For Reactions, Not Realism
Stabilized moss and hot glue turn up as set-dressing tools, giving the fake campsite builds a greener, more “outdoorsy” look on camera without anyone actually foraging anything. Hand sanitizer gets pulled into at least one gag, and the plastic toy beetle exists purely to startle. Acrylic polish closes out the kit, a small detail that fits the channel’s habit of grabbing whatever is sitting in a craft drawer and building a bit around it.
None of it is engineered to hold up on an actual overnight trip, and that has always been the trade-off with Troom Troom’s format — the surreal, exaggerated execution is the draw, not the practicality. Viewers looking for tents and gear that actually function outdoors are better served by something like the Coleman Instant Up 10P Lighted Northstar Darkroom Tent than anything built from canvas and hot glue in this video.
Sixteen pranks, one skewer, and a bottle of ketchup that never should have been trusted — that’s the whole video in a nutshell, and it’s exactly the kind of easy-to-follow, nothing-to-do-with-real-camping content that’s kept Troom Troom’s tutorials in heavy rotation since long before this one dropped.
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