The school holidays are a time where you need all the ideas you can get to keep the kids entertained with fun and creative activities. As a Ready To Burn certified kiln dried firewood supplier, we’re here to share some fantastic ideas that involve having fun with fire! Supervised by responsible adults of course!

These activities not only promise a summer full of adventure but also foster creativity, teamwork, and a love for the great outdoors.

Let’s explore some engaging activities that will make your summer memorable!

Campfire Cooking Adventures

Nothing says summer like a campfire! Gather your kiln dried firewood, kindling sticks, and natural wood wool firelighters to set up a safe, supervised campfire in your backyard. Kiln dried firewood burns efficiently and cleanly, ensuring a great fire with less smoke.

Campfire Activities:

• Campfire Cooking: Teach the kids to make classic campfire treats such as s’mores, hot dogs, and foil-wrapped vegetables.

  DIY Popcorn: Use a popcorn popper designed for campfires and watch their faces light up as the kernels pop!

• Storytelling Time: After your wood-fired cooked evening meal, let the kids take turns telling stories or reading from their favourite books around the campfire.

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Outdoor Firewood Art and Crafts

Kiln dried firewood, kindling sticks, and natural wood wool wax-dipped firelighters can be transformed into amazing art pieces. This activity is perfect for kids who love to get hands-on and let their creative juices ignite!

Activities:

• Firewood Painting: Provide the kids with non-toxic paints and let them paint the firewood with their favourite designs and pop them on display in your garden or somewhere where they’ll be safe at home.
• Kindling Stick Crafts: Use kindling sticks to make small sculptures or picture frames. Kids can decorate these with paint, stickers, or natural materials like leaves and flowers.
• Nature Impressions: Roll or press firewood over soft clay or playdough to create unique textures and patterns, then let them harden as keepsakes.

Firewood Building Construction Projects

Encourage your kids to think like little engineers by using kiln dried logs and kindling sticks in their building projects! This not only enhances their problem-solving skills but keeps them active and engaged too!

Activities:

• Miniature Log Cabins: Show the kids how they can stack small pieces of firewood to build miniature cabins or forts.
• Fairy Houses: Create magical little homes for fairies using smaller logs, kindling sticks, twigs, leaves, and other natural materials from your garden or when you’re out and about on a walk.
• Obstacle Courses: Design an obstacle course in your garden using larger logs firewood as stepping stones, balance beams, and hurdles. Be sure to make sure it’s safe to avoid the risk of any nasty accidents or trip hazards.

Log Fired Outdoor Movie Night

Transform your garden or patio into a cosy outdoor theatre using a fire pit or a chiminea…and of course a handy Fire Pit Logs Firewood Bundle to start, build and keep log fire adventures going hour after hour!

Activities:

• Campfire Snacks: Prepare some popcorn and marshmallows over the fire. Take a sneaky dip at Toast’d and fire up the fun with their tantalising s’mores kits! Perfect for camping, glamping, or family fun at home!
• Movie Setup: Set up a projector and a white sheet as a screen – or whatever means you have to create an outdoor cinema screen. Arrange blankets and pillows around the campfire for a comfy viewing experience.
• Themed Nights: Choose a theme for the movie night, such as “Adventure,” “Fantasy,” or “Nature.” Go a step even further and let the kids dress up as their favourite characters! Smart phones at the ready! They’re the sort of memories you just have to capture.

Safe Fire Lighting Demonstrations

Teach kids the basics of fire safety and the science behind starting a fire using natural wood wool firelighters, kindling sticks and the importance burning kiln dried logs and not wet logs

Activities

• Fire Safety Lessons: Educate children on the importance of fire safety.
• Fire-Starting Basics: Show the kids how to use natural wood wool firelighters dipped in wax and kindling sticks to start a fire.
• Fire Science: Discuss the science of combustion and what makes kiln dried firewood burn more efficiently that wet logs.