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How can people enjoy campfires in the wild without damaging surroundings? Listen to the poem, then craft your own verses about fire-safety.

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Fire lighting materials

Instructions

Before you begin
Use the safety checklist to help you plan and risk assess your activity. Additional help to carry out your risk assessment, including examples can be found here. Don’t forget to make sure all young people and adults involved in the activity know how to take part safely.
Make sure you’ll have enough adult helpers. You may need some parents and carers to help if you’re short on helpers.

Read the poem
Why not give this a go before starting to make a fire at camp? It could also be a great way to begin a campfire?
1. Gather everyone together. Explain that you're going to learn about how to sit safely by a campfire.
2. Together, read the poem aloud. You could choose different people to read different verses.

Searching for safety tips
1. While they’re reading, everyone should note down a checklist of things to consider before making a fire in the wild. What should people do to prevent damage from poorly-managed campfires or accidental wildfires?
2. Everyone should compare their lists. How many things did they identify? People could get a point for each tip they identified.
3. The person leading the activity should help everyone talk through all of the safety tips.

Add your own
1. Now, split everyone into small groups.
2. Give each group a safety tip from the list.
3. Each group should make up a rhyming pair of lines about their safety tip.
4. Gather everyone back together and each group should share their tip.
5. Everyone should piece the lines together to make a poem.
6. Now, someone (or a group of people) should read your new poem.

Copied fromhttps://www.scouts.org.uk/activities/sitting-safely-by-a-campfire/

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• Fire Safety - Campfires
• Fire Safety - Grass Fires