Campfire Crafts for Indoors
When the weather simply is not cooperating and your children are stuck inside, campfire crafts are a quick, safe way to bring the cozy atmosphere of a camp fire into your living room without setting it on fire. You can make campfire craft projects with materials you may already have at home.
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Paper Plate and Construction Paper Campfire
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For this project, you need a paper plate, construction paper, safety scissors, masking tape and a glue stick. Cut a few flame shapes out of yellow, orange and red construction paper with the safety scissors. Cut a few strips from brown construction paper. Stand the flame strips up on the paper plate. Attach them with strips of masking tape. Run the glue stick over the brown construction paper strips. Arrange them on the paper plate around the flames.
Paper Towel Roll Centerpiece
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Cut three paper towel roll insides in half. Paint them brown with tempera paint or water colors. Wear an apron or an old shirt when you use tempera paints, because not all tempera paints will wash out completely. Arrange them in a cardboard circle. Place rocks gathered on a recent hike around the circle's edge. Paint the cardboard circle with black tempera paint or watercolors. Tear or cut yellow, orange and red tissue paper into flame shapes and glue the shapes to the the paper towel logs.
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Camp Fire In a Bucket
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For this project, you will need a small play bucket or an empty plastic ice cream tub. Cut several sheets of yellow, orange and red construction paper into fire shapes. Wash and dry the bucket. Tape the flame shapes to the bucket's outside with masking tape loops. You can fill this campfire bucket with freshly microwaved popcorn for your family movie night. You can also fill it with candy treats for your child's birthday party.
Moving Flames
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Cut a 4-inch by 11-inch strip of poster board. Paint both sides black. Shape the strip into a ring and tape it together on the inside with a strip of black electric tape. Tape three strings across the rim witch clear adhesive tape. Tape yellow, orange and read tissue paper strips or streamers to the strings. Lay a hand-held fan on the table with the blades facing up and turn it on. Place your campfire ring on top of the running fan.
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