This semester, our ensembles are gathering around the virtual campfire to create and share a series of original stories called The Forms of Things Unknown. We’re making these campfire crafts to help set the scene and spark our imaginations. You can make one too!
Learn how in this video tutorial with our teaching artist, Emma!
To make this craft, you will need:
1 sheet of brown construction paper
Brown sharpie
Glue stick
1 sheet each of Red, Yellow, and Orange tissue paper
Clear plastic cup
Your ABLE flashlight or a battery operated tea light
Scissors
Instructions:
First, make your logs
Cut your brown construction paper lengthwise into 5 strips. Some can be wide and some can be narrow.
Use your brown sharpie to decorate your strips of paper to look like logs, You can add squiggly lines for bark. You can draw circles onto the ends to look like cut wood.
One stick at a time, build your wood pile. Place a strip of glue in the middle of a log and stack another log ontop of it at an angle. Then put a strip of glue on the top log and add another stick to the pile. Keep going until you have stacked all of your logs!
Next, make your flames
Fold your red tissue paper into thirds. Then fold it in half. You should have a square.
Trace your hand onto the tissue paper.
Cut out the shape that you traced. Because of how you folded the paper you should have 6 red tissue paper hands!
Repeat steps 1-3 with your yellow tissue paper.
Repeat steps 1-3 with your orange tissue paper.
Apply a lot of glue to the palm of one of your tissue paper hands. Glue it to the outside of your cup. Repeat this with a different color hand, slightly overlapping the first hand. Keep going all the way around the cup, alternating red, orange, and yellow so there are different colors all the way around the fire. Use about 9 or 10 hands.
Start another layer of hands a little bit lower than the first. Stick part of the palm to the bottom of the cup, and part to the side. Repeat this like before, alternating colors, overlapping hands, going all the way around the cup until you've used all of your hands.
Finally, build your fire!
Apply a lot of glue to bottom of your cup. Press this down firmly onto the center of your wood pile. You may want to put your hand inside the cup to press down.
Let the glue dry.
Once the glue has set, turn on your flashlight and place it lit side up inside the cup. It should make your flames glow. If you don’t have a small flashlight, you could also use a battery-operated tealight.
