Meanwhile a crack team of adult volunteers overseen by Scouts Victoria are creating a tent city for the five-day event at Gilwell Park, Gembrook, which starts next Monday.

Four semi-trailer loads of food will be delivered each day of Cuboree, a total of 1.7km of sausages.

Camp director Dan Voet promised kids a break from teachers and iPads in favour of climbing, building stuff and staging plays. It may involve mud.

"There's no homework to do, no one bossing them about, they just have fun."

But it also "builds resilience, is character-developing and teaches them independence".

Duties of the 1700 adult volunteers include putting up more than 1000 tents, cleaning toilets, serving food and running activities.

Cuboree's volunteer catering manager, Balwyn cub leader Jess Rutherford will work 18 hour days and won't be seeing much of her own daughter, nine-year-old Bianca, who is a camper.

Ms Rutherford's shopping list includes 5.7 tonnes of meat, 100,632 slices of bread, 4141 litres of milk, and 1142 litres of custard.

She must provide special diets for 595 children - from kosher and halal meals to vegan and diabetic diets, nut allergies, and dairy intolerances.

Cuboree's chief physician, Professor John Hutson, who was a cub 60 years ago and has been a medic at six Cuborees over the past 20 years, says there is no cause for alarm in the wake of what Health Minister Jill Hennessy termed Victoria's "horror flu season".

Professor Hutson, who is chair of pediatric surgery at Royal Children's Hospital, advised parents to get their child vaccinated for flu as a commonsense measure.

He has seen "a few" cases of flu at Cuberoos but it was "easy to treat" with rest and observation in the camp's 20 bed hospital ward "and if the child got really sick, we'd send them to hospital".

In his six Cuborees over 20 years, the worst injuries had been broken limbs, and the most common either "homesickness" or gastroenteritis.

"When you fall over and scrape your knee, the scrape seems 10 times worse when you're homesick."

He said the focus should be on fun.

"The kids will have such a wonderful time. They'll really enjoy it. Remember there are 1000 adults there.

"Adults and children will be tired, but we'll have had such a good time we'll go, 'how long is it till the next one'?."

Leanne Blunt, of Mooroolbark, whose son Jackson, 10, created an online video of himself packing, said "he cannot wait".

"They love getting away and doing things on their own without their parents' watchful eyes."