Campfire Building

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Outdoor Skills, Backpacking, Cooking, Navigation, Cycling, and Wilderness Survival Skills. Troop Program Features let you make Campfire Building a part of your troop program.

Contents Campfire Rank Videos Knife Skills Ax and Saw Skills Campfire Setup Campfire Types Campfire Starting Campfire Safety

Resources

While the Boy Scout Handbook is your primary resource, the links below can help you learn Campfire Building. See the Disclaimers.

• Related Merit Badges: Camping - Fire Safety - Cooking - Wilderness Survival.
• Skills Instruction and Videos: First-Aid Skills - Swimming - Outdoor Skills - Wilderness Survival - Backpacking - Cooking - Navigation - Campfires - Clothing - Cycling Skills

• Related Awards: Firem'n Chit - Totin' Chip - Paul Bunyan Woodsman

►  BSA Video: The Skills Lessons are excellent but are large files that require Apple QuickTime.
►  This symbol notes many other lesson videos.

Campfire Rank Videos

Shortcut: Campfire Rank Videos

• See: Fire Safety merit badge and Firem'n Chit.

►  BSA Video: Second Class Light a Fire and Stove (See notes.)
►  BSA Video: Second Class Fires and Stoves

• Guide to Safe Scouting: Guidelines for Safely Using Chemical Stoves and Lanterns - Guide to Safe Scouting: Fuels and Fire Prevention

Knife Skills

Shortcut: Knife Skills

►  BSA Video: BSA Video: Second Class Knife, Saw, and Ax (See notes.)
►  Videos: Cleaning a Knife - Sharpening a Knife - Pocket Knife Care - Sharpening Devices - Sharpening Safety - Sharpening Mistakes - Sharpening Edges & Goals

• Guide to Safe Scouting: Knives - wikiHow How to Sharpen a Knife - Sharpening Tricks - How to Sharpen a Knife

Ax and Saw Skills

Shortcut: Ax and Saw Skills

►  BSA Video: Video: Knife and Ax Safety - Knives, axes, and saws to take to the wilds

Campfire Setup

Shortcut: Campfire Setup

• BSA Video: Second Class Prepare a fire (See notes.)
• REI: Campfire Basics - Campfire building

►  Video: Fire Site - Where to Build a Campfire - Types of Fires - Fire Pits - Build a Fire - Kindling -Picking Kindling - Wood - Arranging The FIre - Keep a Fire Going - Sparking a Fire - What Not to Burn - Put Out a Campfire

Campfire Types

Shortcut: Campfire Types

►  Video: Log Cabin Type Fire - Tee Pee - Speed Fire

Campfire Starting

Shortcut: Campfire Starting

►  BSA Video: Second Class Light a Fire and Stove (See notes.)
►  Video: Video: Fire Starting - Flint & Steel - BlastMatch - Steel Wool - Fire Piston - Magnifying Glass

• Eight non-match methods for firestarting
  

Campfire Safety

Shortcut: Campfire Safety

• See Outdoor Safety

►  Video: Safety - Video: Dangers

See also

• Skills Instruction and Videos: First-Aid Skills - Swimming - Outdoor Skills - Wilderness Survival - Backpacking - Cooking - Navigation - Campfires - Clothing - Cycling Skills

• Outdoor Skills

Related awards

Outdoor Skills Awards

Outdoor-related awards Boy Scout ranks: Scout - Tenderfoot - Second Class - First Class Boy Scout awards: Firem'n Chit - Totin' Chip - Paul Bunyan Woodsman - National Outdoor Badges - National Medal for Outdoor Achievement Boy Scout Merit Badges: Archaeology - Archery - Astronomy - Athletics - Backpacking - Bird Study - Camping - Canoeing - Climbing - Cooking - Cycling - Environmental Science - Farm Mechanics - Fire Safety - Fish and Wildlife Management - Fishing - Fly Fishing - Forestry - Gardening - Geocaching - Geology - Golf - Hiking - Horsemanship - Insect Study - Kayaking - Mammal Study - Motorboating - Nature - Oceanography - Orienteering - Personal Fitness - Pioneering - Reptile and Amphibian Study - Rifle Shooting - Rowing - Scuba Diving - Search and Rescue - Shotgun Shooting - Signs, Signals, and Codes - Skating - Small-Boat Sailing - Snow Sports - Soil and Water Conservation - Space Exploration - Sports - Surveying - Swimming - Traffic Safety - Weather - Water Sports - Whitewater - Wilderness Survival Venturing: Wilderness Survival Ranger Core - Backpacking Ranger Award elective - National Outdoor Badges - National Medal for Outdoor Achievement Sea Scouts: National Outdoor Badges - National Medal for Outdoor Achievement

Disclaimers

Disclaimer: This information is not intended as a substitute for professional advice, or formal training. Please note that the only materials recommended by the Boy Scouts of America are those found or listed in official BSA materials such as the current Boy Scout Handbook. Campfire Building recommendations are constantly being revised. Neither MeritBadge.Org, nor its contributors make any recommendations. See the Guide to Safe Scouting.

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