I'M A FIRE STARTER

As promised I am starting to share some of the crafty things I made for 'A Night in Bethlehem' event.

We are going to have a floor seating area with mats, rugs and cushions and I wanted to have a fire in the middle of it but obviously for health and safety reasons I couldn't have a real fire.

I started with an almost round circle of cardboard which I then painted black.

Next I made some rocks by crumpling brown paper and coating them in a pva/water mix. Once these were dry, I then painted them grey and stuck around the edge of the fire base.

Next I needed some logs. I cut some strips of cardboard and rolled them up. I used 3 layers of strips for each log.

I then painted the logs brown.

To complete the fire I used some red, orange and yellow tissue paper to make flames and added the logs.