How to Make Fire Starters for a Campfire

Video Transcript

"When you're at the lorn, it's important to have the tools that you might need to make a fire. You might need a cook over fire or in some cases you might be cold and just need that external heat source so it's a good thing and have some fire starter with you in addition to your nice, dry kindling and your wood that you're going to use for a fire. A few ways to make some home made fire starters are take everyday cotton balls and to roll them in petroleum jelly and get them nice and coated with that so you want to coat that cotton ball and totally wet it down with petroleum jelly and then you can take your cotton balls and you can actually store them in a film canister and after you soak this thing with petroleum jelly you can put in into an old film canister, you'll be able to store about twenty of these in there after they're soaked and this is a little water proof container and then you can keep this with you in your backpack so that if you get into this scenario where you need to start a fire, put two or three in these soaked cotton balls underneath your nice, dry kindling and light it up and this will be a great way to start a fire. Another great homemade fire starter is if you can take an old, worn belt, webbing belt or just some backpacking straps that are webbing and cut them in two inch strips so cut this all both up and then you actually soak this in nice, hot wax and let it cool off and keep this in your pack, in a Ziploc bags, they're nice and water tight and when you need to start a fire, grab one of these strips that's soaked in wax, throw it down in that nice dirt with the your good dry kindling on top and light that up and it should be a great way to start a fire."