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Description

This activity not only teaches you how to build different types of campfires, but it is also incredibly tasty too! Learn how to build campfires such as lean-to, star and teepee fires, using chocolate fingers as your logs.

Resources

‘Campfire Pairs’ & ‘Campfire Information’ Sheets
Chocolate Fingers or Matchmakers
Orange jelly sweets or Smarties
Icing tube

Instructions

A leader will need to download and print the sheets required for this activity. They will also need to gather the other resources, ready to make the edible campfires.

Use our mix of activities below to learn more about different types of campfires, how they are built, where they might be used and their pros & cons.

Campfire Pairs
1) Print out a set of the ‘Campfire Pairs’. This contains 24 images of campfires. Cut them into their individual boxes and lay them out on a table, with all the images facing the table.
2) Children should work either individually or in pairs. One at a time a child/pair should have a go at turning over two of the cards, to try and find a matching pair. If the fires match, then they should remove them from the game and gain a point.
3) Continue playing, with children/pairs taking turns, until all the pairs have been found. Congratulate the child/pair with the most campfire pairs at the end of the activity.
4) Now take a look at all the pictures from the game. Ask the group to point out any differences they can see (how the logs are laid, thickness of the logs, the number of logs etc). Explain that we are now going to look at four of these types of fire and the reason why they are built differently.

Meet the Campfires
1) Show the group the ‘Campfire Information’ sheet. This contains four types of campfire. You may wish to cut these into their four individual boxes, so you can show one fire at a time.
2) Go through each of the fires one by one, taking a look at its name, how it is built and the various pros and cons of each type of fire.
3) To support this, a leader could search for images of each fire on a computer, to help children see each campfire in more detail.

Edible Campfire
1) Now you have got to know four types of campfire, it’s time to start building some edible version.
2) Hand each child a plate (or similar) and some chocolate fingers/matchmakers.
3) Call out one of these four types of campfire and then children should attempt to create that type of fire, using the edible resources they have. How well can they recreate the fire using these tasty treats?
4) Children can complete their campfire by adding the flames. To do this use orange jelly sweets, jelly tots, smarties or something similar. You may need to use a small bit of icing to help them stay in place.
5) Repeat this process with the three other types of campfire. Can they create each one accurately using their chocolate? To save on resources, children could dismantle their first fire to use the ‘logs’ to build their next one.
6) Finally, children could then design their own type of campfire, being creative with the resources that they have. What will they name their design and what are the pros and cons of this new design?
7) Finally, if appropriate to do so, children can then finish the activity by eating their edible campfire and enjoying the chocolate.

Ideas to take this further
Give this activity a go for real. This could include building campfires and then learning how to light them. Check out our ‘Fire Lighting’ activity for inspiration.

Tags

• Get Adventurous
• indoors
• Juniors

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