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| |  Posted 5/31/2007 12:07:41 PM | |
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| Everyone here is so creative, I know someone will have a great suggestion. We are creating an area in the Sanctuary to look like cowboys sleeping out on the range. We'll have the AR backdrop, trees, etc. One thing I can't figure out is how to make a campfire. I've found some faux campfires on-line but there were way too expensive. Any cost effective ideas?
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| | | Posted 5/31/2007 3:10:00 PM | |
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| | | Posted 5/31/2007 10:22:27 PM | |
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| One easy way would be to make one from a small fan. duct tape 2 flame-shaped pieces of white silk in a X-configuration to the front grille of the fan, with the fan facing up. Aim a small orange light up through the silk. This is basically how faux-flame pots are made. One more complex way would be to put an ultrasonic mister in a glass bowl of water, which would be sitting over colored lights. Or rig a small smoke machine- maybe the chauvet Hurricane- under $40 to blow through a piece of tubing which gradually slopes to point up to the top of the campfire. Again, put a small orange light under this.
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| | | Posted 6/1/2007 10:50:35 AM | |
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| I have used a campfire in my Bible Adventure room each year. I use kindling (you can buy some at gas stations!) clear Christmas lights and yellow and red tissue paper. I have even used one of those touch lights that you can buy at the dollar store before someone donated the clear Christmas lights! I cut out a piece of cardboard and assembled the campfire on it. It is always a big hit with the kids.
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| | | Posted 6/2/2007 7:31:14 AM | |
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| | I made one for FIESTA last year. This is what I did: I made "rocks" out of crumpled up newspaper wrapped in brown grocery bag paper to look smooth-like a rock and spray painted with very inexpensive gray and black spray paint ($1 a can). I built the fire on a cardboard circle. I glued the "rocks" in a circle (@ 18 inches in diameter) onto the cardboard. Then I used little red Christmas lights to simulate red coals and covered them with crumpled up orange and yellow cellophane. The "logs" were made by rolling and twisting paper bags, spraying the top half of the log with brown paint and the bottom with black and orange. The "logs" were arranged on top of the red Christmas lights. I knew I couldn't make realistic flames so I settled for a realistic looking "glowing-embers" kind of campfire. |
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| | | Posted 6/2/2007 8:32:58 AM | |
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|  You can buy these from many places, and they are fairly cheap (less than $15 for ours). They make the most realistic looking fire I have seen. We've tried tissue paper, fans, lights, etc. This uses those basic things and is either battery operated or plugs in, depending on what you buy. We have used ours for many things. |
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| | | Posted 6/2/2007 11:44:19 AM | |
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| | Shadanco - That sounds really neat do you have a picture of it? Weldon From OH |
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| | | Posted 6/2/2007 11:44:39 AM | |
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| | Could you tell me what these are called and where you find them? They don't show up very well on my page. Do you use them with other things to get the appearance of a campfire or alone? The campfire is one of the details I haven't worked out yet either. Thanks.... |
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| | | Posted 6/3/2007 5:54:42 AM | |
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| Weldon,
Naturally, I wasn't organized enough to do that! Since the only cost, besides the paint I already had, was only $.88 for the little red lights, I passed it on to another local VBS. It took about 30 minutes to make, at most. I will be making another one and will remember to take a picture this year. |
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