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 Posted 6/21/2007 10:39:53 AM |
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| We built a campfire for ours that uses some of the ideas posted here. We had someone willing to let us borrow one of the halloween flames (pictured in one of the posts above) and also someone else with firewood that we could borrow. So, we crisscrossed the firewood just like you would if you were building a real fire and nestled the fake flame in the middle on top of the first layer, then added more logs crisscrossed around it. (The downside is that it needed to be located near an outlet so that the flame could be plugged in because ours wasn't battery operated.) It looks just like a campfire, and you really can't tell until you're right on top of it that it isn't real. Our VBS is running this whole week, and the kids have been absolutely fascinated by it. I also downloaded the campfire sounds wave file posted elsewhere on this forum (sorry, I can't remember exactly where - it was at least a month or two ago when I first found it). I put it on my MP3 player, which I connected to small external speakers and hid under the logs, then set it to repeat so that it plays the entire evening while we're there. This way it not only looks like a real fire but sounds like one, too. 
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| Posted 6/21/2007 3:20:47 PM |
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| Here is a photo of our campfire... http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2090749118&idx=16 (I don't know how to put the photo on here, just the link) Anyway - it's cartoonish, but had the desired impact. We had afully lit room, so the lights didn't show up well. We used real logs, real bricks, and tissue paper. Easiest and cheapest decoration of the whole week! Laura at River of Life
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| Posted 6/21/2007 3:54:59 PM |
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| The new Family Fun Magazine has a Campfire Cake in it. Easy to make and so realistic.
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| Posted 6/21/2007 4:41:37 PM |
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We used a campfire in bible adventures last year, or was it the year before, any way. We used pieces of wood we picked up outside. We used yellow and orange tissue paperand red blinking lights. I cut little strips of the paper and clued them to the pieces of wood that we stacked kindof like a teepee. We put a small fan under the wood allowing the air from the fan to come up from under the tissue paper. It looked like there were flames from the fire.
Angela in NC
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