Camp Fire Planning
Your campfire program should have a definite, planned structure. It should happen similarly to how a fire burns - starting small, building to a bright excitement, and then tapering off to glowing embers.
Opening - gather people together and light the fire. The opening includes parading to the formal circle, introductions, quiet songs, the fire lighting, and guidelines for the fire and welcomes people to the magic of the experience.
Lighter – begin building just like the fire does – sing songs that are fun and include everyone
Burning - Skits, Songs, and/or Stories with different people presenting
Dying - Plan a slower, silly song, followed by a couple slower songs
Closing - Wrap up with a short story or thankful prayer for the day or some other thought.
Ashes - after the program ends, you may say its 'lights out' and make it known that the time for loudness is over since some people may be ready for bed.
Opening - gather people together and light the fire. The opening includes parading to the formal circle, introductions, quiet songs, the fire lighting, and guidelines for the fire and welcomes people to the magic of the experience.
Lighter – begin building just like the fire does – sing songs that are fun and include everyone
Burning - Skits, Songs, and/or Stories with different people presenting
Dying - Plan a slower, silly song, followed by a couple slower songs
Closing - Wrap up with a short story or thankful prayer for the day or some other thought.
Ashes - after the program ends, you may say its 'lights out' and make it known that the time for loudness is over since some people may be ready for bed.
Camp Fire Ashes Ceremony (Ashes of Friendship)
The History
The taking of ashes from one campfire to another is a ceremony done by Girl Guides and Boy Scouts all around the world. The main purpose of these ashes is to bring to all Scouts and Guides the international aspect of the world of scouting. Ashes taken from a campfire are
sprinkled into the flames of the next campfire. The next morning when the ashes are cold, they are stirred and each Guide present at the ceremony takes some to mix to the next campfire. Each Guide keeps a list of all of the campfires that they have sprinkled their ashes in. If more than one Guide brings ashes to the campfire, the lists are combined and the dates and places of all campfires are recorded and passed on. As Girl Scouts, Girl Guides and Boy Scouts travel, the ashes circle the globe. It is a tradition that only those actually present at the campfire can receive ashes from the ceremony to carry on to another campfire.
The Ceremony
We carry our friendships with us in these ashes from other campfires with friends in other lands. May the joining of the past fires with the leaping flames of this campfire, symbolize once more the unbroken chain that binds Guides and Scouts of all nations together.
With greetings from our brothers and sisters around the world, I will add these ashes and the fellowship therein, to our campfire. Will anyone with campfire ashes please come forward and join me.
(Wait for others)
The ashes I spread into this campfire carry memories of past campfires dating back to the 1980s.
I will now charge these ashes to the campfire.
So that you may pass these ashes on and share them with others at your next campfire, you will be given a history of where these ashes have
been.
The taking of ashes from one campfire to another is a ceremony done by Girl Guides and Boy Scouts all around the world. The main purpose of these ashes is to bring to all Scouts and Guides the international aspect of the world of scouting. Ashes taken from a campfire are
sprinkled into the flames of the next campfire. The next morning when the ashes are cold, they are stirred and each Guide present at the ceremony takes some to mix to the next campfire. Each Guide keeps a list of all of the campfires that they have sprinkled their ashes in. If more than one Guide brings ashes to the campfire, the lists are combined and the dates and places of all campfires are recorded and passed on. As Girl Scouts, Girl Guides and Boy Scouts travel, the ashes circle the globe. It is a tradition that only those actually present at the campfire can receive ashes from the ceremony to carry on to another campfire.
The Ceremony
We carry our friendships with us in these ashes from other campfires with friends in other lands. May the joining of the past fires with the leaping flames of this campfire, symbolize once more the unbroken chain that binds Guides and Scouts of all nations together.
With greetings from our brothers and sisters around the world, I will add these ashes and the fellowship therein, to our campfire. Will anyone with campfire ashes please come forward and join me.
(Wait for others)
The ashes I spread into this campfire carry memories of past campfires dating back to the 1980s.
I will now charge these ashes to the campfire.
So that you may pass these ashes on and share them with others at your next campfire, you will be given a history of where these ashes have
been.
Camp Fire Songs and Skits
Pick and choose songs and skits to use in your campfire ceremony. Check out the Virtual Songbook for great examples and lyrics of lots of Guiding songs.
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