Before you begin 

• Use the safety checklist to help you plan and risk assess your activity. Additional help to carry out your risk assessment, including examples can be found here. Don’t forget to make sure all young people and adults involved in the activity know how to take part safely.
• Make sure you’ll have enough adult helpers. You may need some parents and carers to help if you’re short on helpers.

Planning this activity

• Remember to check for allergies, eating problems or dietary requirements and adjust the recipe as needed. Make sure you’ve checked everyone’s dietary requirements and allergies then adapted the recipe as appropriate. This may include ensuring no cross-contamination during food storage, preparation and serving, too.  
• Check if there are any items of food (or packaging) that people can’t touch or be near to or if there are items that people might not be comfortable using in the activity. 
• Be conscious about who may be fasting when providing snacks, eating and drinking – you may want to plan this activity for when everyone can get involved or leave out the eating and drinking part.
• Everyone should wash their hands.
• Everyone should build and light a fire.

Prepare your fire

Once the last flames die down, most of what’s left will be a type of fuel called white coals.

1. Someone should use a stick to spread the white coals out. It’s up to you how you position your coals. To create gradually increasing temperatures, make sure there’s more at the back of the fire bed, sloping into a smaller amount at the front. Spreading the coals evenly will mean everything cooks on the same amount of heat.
2. The fire is now ready for cooking, with adult supervision. Wearing heatproof gloves, you could use a billy can, an adult could place a grate over the fire, or you can cook the pittas in foil directly on the coals.

Make your meal

1. Ask everyone to get into small groups of between four and six people. Each recipe card makes one pitta pizza, so each group should work together to make a pitta pizza for each person. You may want to group people with similar dietary requirements together to make it easier and avoid cross contamination.
2. Everyone should wash their hands.
3. Groups should get ready to cook by making sure their area and their equipment is clean and ready to go.
4. Give each group a copy of the recipe card, their equipment, and their ingredients.
5. With adult supervision, everyone should follow their recipe card to make the pizza pockets.
6. When they’re ready, an adult wearing heatproof gloves should remove the pizza pockets and place them in a safe, stable area, that’s away from young people, to cool down.
7. Once they’ve cooled down, everyone can enjoy their pizza pockets.

Extinguish your fire and clean up

1. Once everyone has finished using the fire, no one should add any more wood. The fire will die down.
2. Someone should use a new stick (not one that’s been in the fire) to carefully spread out the wood and embers so they cool down faster.
3. Someone should pour water over the smouldering wood and ashes to make sure they’re fully extinguished. They should use the stick to mix the water through the ashes.
4. Everyone should work together to clear up quickly and efficiently – each group needs to wash up their utensils and dispose of rubbish and leftovers.

Reproduced from the original post found on Scouts UK: https://www.scouts.org.uk/activities/make-pitta-pocket-pizzas/

For this activity to count towards the Our Outdoors Challenge Award, it needs to take place on a night away.

Before you begin

• Complete a risk assessment, and read the safety guidance provided below.
• Check in advance whether anyone has allergies or dietary requirements, and make sure you have suitable ingredients or substitutes. We’ve included some ways to adapt this recipe for different dietary requirements below.
• Ask people which vegetables, herbs, and spices they’d like to add, so you can buy the right ingredients.
• If you’re planning to cook as part of a normal meeting, it may be best to let people know, so that they come ready to eat a meal.

Get cooking

1. Split into groups of around six people and give each the equipment they need. You might also want to make copies of the ‘safe and hygienic cooking’ guidance. Each group should have an adult to offer support and guidance, and make sure they stay safe.

It’s probably best to group people with similar dietary requirements together – having a gluten free group or vegetarian group makes it easier, and reduces the risk of cross-contamination. 

2. Groups should remind themselves of the safety and hygiene guidance, and get ready to cook by making sure their area, their equipment, and their team members are clean and ready to go. 
3. Give each group a copy of the recipe, and their ingredients. 
4. Groups should weigh and measure their ingredients, and follow the recipe card to prepare a tasty meal.

Groups need to follow the steps in order – but they can work as a team to complete multiple steps at once. For example, some people could start chopping vegetables while others cook the pasta.

5. Once they’ve finished cooking, groups should sit down together and eat their meal. Then, they need to clean, wash up, and put away.

Reproduced from the original post found on Scouts UK: https://www.scouts.org.uk/activities/cook-macaroni-slosh/

Before you begin 

• If you have enough helpers, you may want to get some to help everyone learn about Fair Trade while the others sort out the oven (or campfire) and prep the bananas.

The terms Fairtrade and Fair Trade can seem confusing. ‘Fairtrade’ describes the specific certification and labelling system governed by Fairtrade International. ‘Fair Trade’ describes any system of trading based on the explicit principle of being fair. ‘Fair Trade’ can include products with and without the ‘Fairtrade’ mark, and is monitored by bodies including the World Fair Trade Organisation. Any other use of the words implies trading fairly, but not necessarily to any internationally recognised standards.

Learn about Fair Trade

1. The person leading the activity should explain that a lot of farmers have poor working conditions, and that they often don’t get much money for the things they grow, even though the big companies who buy their products and sell them to us make a lot of money from them.
2. The person leading the activity should explain that Fair Trade makes sure that the farmers who grow things such as bananas and cocoa (for chocolate) are paid a fair price for their products and have better working conditions.
3. The person leading the activity could show everyone the Pablo the super banana video, which explains how bananas are grown and how they end up in the shops.

You can find the video here. There are also story cards that may be useful too.

Make chocolate bananas

1. The person leading the activity should preheat the oven to 200°C, or make a campfire.

If you choose to cook on a fire, don’t forget to keep a bucket with water close to it.

2. The person leading the activity should prepare the bananas. They should place them (unpeeled) on a stable surface and use a knife to cut a slit along the length, being careful not to cut through the skin on the other side.
3. Everyone should wash their hands.
4. The person leading the activity should give everyone a slit banana and some chocolate (or chocolate buttons).

To reduce cost, you could ask local supermarkets if they’re able to give you bananas that would otherwise be thrown away, or you could ask people to bring a banana from home.

5. Everyone should fill the slit in their banana with chocolate (or chocolate buttons).
6. Everyone should wrap their filled banana with tinfoil. Everyone should cook their bananas. If using a campfire, they should use tongs to put them in the embers. If using an oven, they should use oven gloves to place them in the oven.
7. While the bananas are cooking (and cooling), the person leading the activity should help everyone to think more about Fair Trade. They could think about what other Fair Trade products people can buy.

Fair Trade products include chocolate, bananas, rice, flowers, sugar, and tea. Fairtrade products come from over 70 different countries. Fairtrade has encouraged many farmers to farm in a more environmentally friendly way.

8. After between two and five minutes, an adult should carefully check that the chocolate has melted. If the chocolate has melted, they should carefully remove the bananas using tongs.
9. The person leading the activity should put the bananas to one side for a few minutes, to cool.
10. Everyone should unwrap their cooled baked banana, and use a spoon to scoop the insides out of the tinfoil, eat, and enjoy.

Reproduced from the original post found on Scouts UK: https://www.scouts.org.uk/activities/cook-some-fairly-baked-bananas/

Before you begin 

• Use the safety checklist to help you plan and risk assess your activity. Additional help to carry out your risk assessment, including examples can be found here. Don’t forget to make sure all young people and adults involved in the activity know how to take part safely.
• Make sure you’ll have enough adult helpers. You may need some parents and carers to help if you’re short on helpers.

Having a safe cooking source 

• Make sure that everyone’s fires have been built outdoors in clear, open areas, with plenty of ventilation, and away from any areas where people will be sleeping.  
• All the fires need to burn down to hot embers before they can start cooking. This increases the chance of the fuel burning without enough oxygen present, increasing the risk of carbon monoxide exposure. We’ve more guidance on different cooking methods. 
• If using a gas stove, make sure it’s on a stable heatproof surface and in a clear and open area, with plenty of ventilation. 

Building a fire and preparing to cook on a campfire 

• Build and light a fire before starting this activity. Our activities, Campfire admirers or Construct a campfire, can help you to do this. You’ll use the hot embers to cook on, so the fire will need enough time to die down before cooking. 
• You could run our fire safety activities, Fuel air ignition and Sitting safely by a campfire, prior to running this session. 
• Remember to have a hand washing station and take extra hygiene precautions when handling food. Take a look at our guidance on food preparation. 
• Make sure you have all the ingredients ready.  
• Remember to check your ingredients against any allergy or dietary requirements to ensure everyone can enjoy the recipe. This may mean using alternative ingredients. 

Introducing the activity 

1. Gather everyone in a small group and tell them that you’re going to make hot cross buns on a campfire. 
2. Hot Cross Buns are a traditional Easter dish. You could make this recipe as part of Easter celebrations. 
3. You may want to run a fire safety talk or show people how to use the equipment safely, such as for cooking or chopping ingredients, or you may need to remind everyone about ways to be safe around a campfire.

Making the hot cross buns  

1. Everyone should wash their hands.  
2. The recipe makes 12 buns. Depending on how many people you have, you may want to split everyone into smaller groups to make their buns. 
3. Mix the flour, yeast, sugar, mixed spice, salt and sultanas in a large bowl. 
4. In a small saucepan, place the butter and milk, then heat it until it’s slightly warm. 
5. Add the butter and milk mixture into the bowl with your dry, flour mixture. 
6. Now, add the egg into the bowl and stir well, using a knife to combine the ingredients.  
7. Stir well until the dough starts to come together.  
8. You can use your hands to finish mixing everything together to make a soft dough. 
9. Once your dough’s formed, put some flour on a clean, flat surface.  
10. Put the dough out onto the floured surface and knead it until it’s smooth, then shape the dough into a ball. 
11. Lightly oil a bowl. It can be the same large bowl from the beginning, so long as it has been cleaned out first. Place the dough into the lightly oiled bowl and cover it with clingfilm. 
12. Place the bowl to one side in a warm place for an hour, or until the dough doubles in size. To save on time, an adult volunteer could make the dough before the session if needed. 
13. After an hour, remove the risen dough from the bowl and gently ‘punch down’. To “punch” the dough properly, firmly, but gently, push your fist into the center of the dough. Then knead the dough a few times and reform the dough into a ball.  
14. Divide the dough into 12 equal balls, or buns. 
15. Place the buns onto a greased tray, cover them with plastic wrap, then leave in a warm place to rise while an adult volunteer heats the Dutch oven. Remember to use personal protective equipment, such as heatproof gloves when handling the Dutch oven and placing it onto the campfire. 
16. Now it’s time to make the flour paste. To make the flour paste, mix the flour and water together in a small bowl until it’s a smooth paste. You can add a little more water to the mix if it’s too thick. Spoon the mixture into a small Ziplock bag and, when you’re ready to start piping, cut off one small corner of the bag. Carefully take the buns from the warm place and pipe the flour paste to form crosses over the top of each bun. 
17. An adult should carefully remove your Dutch Oven from the heat, remembering to wear the heatproof gloves. They should place it down on a heatproof surface in a safe place, away from young people, and allow it to cool. An adult volunteer should place the Hot Cross Buns in the camp oven and then return it to the campfire. 
18. Bake the buns for roughly 25 to 30 minutes or until buns are cooked through. You can test by seeing if they sound hollow when tapped by an adult volunteer with a utensil, as this shows they’re cooked. With an adult volunteer, keep checking every 10 minutes to make sure they’ve not burnt. 
19. When ready, an adult should carefully remove your Dutch Oven from the heat, remembering to wear the heatproof gloves. They should place it down on a heatproof surface in a safe place, away from young people, and allow it to cool. 
20. Once cooled, with an adult volunteer, carefully take your Hot Cross Buns out of your Dutch oven and use safe cooking utensils to put them on a plate.  
21. To make the glaze, place water and sugar into a small saucepan and stir on a hob until the sugar has dissolved. Brush the warm glaze over the Hot Cross Buns.  
22. Divide them up into bowls or onto plates for your group to try. 
23. Everyone can add any toppings if they’d like them, such as butter or jam, then make sure the Hot Cross Buns have cooled down before you tuck in. Enjoy! 

Putting out the fire safely and tidying up 

1. Once everyone has finished using the fire, no-one should add any more wood. The fire will slowly begin to die down. Ask young people to step away from the fire while it’s put out. 
2. Use a stick, but not one that’s been in the fire, an adult should carefully spread out the wood and embers, so they cool down quickly. 
3. An adult should pour water over the smouldering wood and ashes to make sure they’re fully extinguished. Use a stick to mix the water through the ashes. 
4. Young people should work together to clear up quickly and efficiently. Each group needs to wash up their utensils, then dispose of any rubbish. Any leftovers could be taken home to avoid waste. 

Reproduced from the original post found on Scouts UK: https://www.scouts.org.uk/activities/make-campfire-hot-cross-buns/

Before you begin 

• Use the safety checklist to help you plan and risk assess your activity. There’s also more guidance to help you carry out your risk assessment, including examples. Don’t forget to make sure all young people and adults involved in the activity know how to take part safely.
• Make sure you’ll have enough adult helpers. You may need some parents and carers to help if you’re short on helpers.

Getting ready to bake

1. Gather everyone together and tell them that they’re going to make Welsh cakes. You may want to all bake them all together, or make them in small groups and give each group the equipment and instructions.  
2. Alternatively, an adult volunteer could prepare the Welsh cakes in front of the section, while another adult volunteer explains the significance of Saint David’s day. 

Get baking

1. First, sieve flour into a mixing bowl, then add half the butter or margarine, sugar and baking powder.  
2. Rub the ingredients together with the tips of your fingers until it resembles breadcrumbs.  
3. Mix in the sultanas and egg. You may want to add a splash of milk if the mixture’s dry. 
4. Lightly flour a surface and roll out the dough using a rolling pin. Make sure the dough is about the thickness of your little finger. 
5. Once it’s rolled out, use a cookie cutter to cut out your Welsh cakes.  
6. Grease your frying pan using the remaining butter. 
7. An adult volunteer should turn on the stove or hob and place the frying pan over a medium heat. 
8. Cook the Welsh cakes for about 3 minutes on each side until golden brown. You may need to do this in batches.  
9. Once they’re cooked, an adult volunteer should remove the pan and place it on a heatproof surface, away from young people. 
10. Using heatproof tongs, or similar, the Welsh cakes can be removed and left on a plate or cooling rack to cool down.  
11. Make sure an adult is always supervising any hob or stove. You may want an adult volunteer to cook all the Welsh cakes while young people take part in another activity, depending on if you can run both activities in-line with the Yellow Card and ratios.  
12. Once cooked, everyone can give their Welsh cakes a try – perhaps with some butter – or people may want to take them home and that’s OK, too. 
13. Remember that everyone can get involved in tidying and washing up afterwards. 

Reproduced from the original post found on Scouts UK: https://www.scouts.org.uk/activities/bake-welsh-cakes/

Before you begin 

• Use the safety checklist to help you plan and risk assess your activity. Take a look at our guidance to help you carry out your risk assessment, including examples.  
• Make sure all young people and adults involved in the activity know how to take part safely.
• Make sure you’ll have enough adult helpers. You may need some parents and carers to help if you’re short on helpers. 

Make your pancakes

1. Combine all the dry ingredients. If you’re making these on camp, you can do this at home and tip them into an airtight container to pack.
2. When you’re ready to make your first batch of pancakes, tip the yoghurt into a jug with the egg and milk and mix with the fork or whisk.
3. Clean and dry the yoghurt pot so you can use it to add a scoop of dry mix to a bowl.
4. Create a well in the middle of the dry mix, add the wet ingredients, and then beat together into a smooth batter.
5. Heat a frying pan and add some oil. Add tablespoons of batter to the pan, not too close together and cook for 2-3 minutes until bubbles appear.
6. Flip and continue cooking until the pancakes are firm.
7. Add more oil and keep cooking pancakes until all the batter is used up.
8. Serve with orange wedges and enjoy your pancakes as part of a balanced breakfast!

Reproduced from the original post found on Scouts UK: https://www.scouts.org.uk/activities/camp-pancakes/

Before you begin 

• Use the safety checklist to help you plan and risk assess your activity. There’s also more guidance to help you carry out your risk assessment, including examples. 
• Make sure you’ll have enough adult helpers. You may need some parents and carers to help if you’re short on helpers. 
• Remember to give a safety briefing for the cooking equipment and methods you’re using. You may wish to demonstrate the methods or activity before you all start cooking. 

Cook your Bannock bread

1. Gather everyone together and explain you’re going to make Bannock Bread. 
2. Have a fire safety talk or demonstrate how to use the equipment safely, such as for cooking on a campfire or chopping ingredients. Remind everyone to regularly wash their hands, tuck in loose clothing and neckers, and tie long hair back.
3. Everyone should get involved in building and lighting a fire. If there’s not enough time to light the fire and let it die down to embers, the person leading the activity could build the fires before everyone else arrives. At least one adult should always be supervising the fire throughout the activity.
4. Everyone should wash their hands, then get into smalls groups and gather their ingredients and equipment.  
5. Make a pile of your dry ingredients in a mixing bowl. Press the back of a spoon into the top of the dry ingredient pile to make a small well or hole.
6. Carefully add half a cup of warm water into the well and mix it thoroughly. 
7. If you’re making the fruity Bannock bread, now’s the time to mix in your seasonal fruits or berries.
8. When you’re ready, roll the mixture into one or two balls of dough. Flatten it, either by hand or with a rolling pin, making sure it’s no more than about 2.5cm thick.   
9. Before cooking, make sure your campfire’s only hot embers and there’s no flame. 
10. With adult supervision, cook the Bannock bread in one of the following ways, always using heatproof gloves and heatproof tongs:
    • Carefully place the dough onto a grid-iron, which is a grate used for cooking on a campfire.
    • Put a small amount of oil in a frying pan and let it heat up on the campfire’s embers. Then, carefully place your dough in the pan to cook.
    • Brush your dough with a little oil and place it on a piece of kitchen foil. 
11. If you want to use an oven instead, cook at about 160 degrees Celsius, turning halfway through. 
12. Cook each side until it’s golden. This should take about 5 to 10 minutes each side on a campfire or 15-20 minutes in an oven.
13. An adult should carefully remove the Bannock Bread from the heat, remembering to wear the heatproof gloves and using heatproof tongs.
14. The adult should place the bannock bread down on a flat, stable and heatproof surface to cool down, such as a baking tray, making sure it’s out of reach of young people.
15. Once it’s cooled, an adult can help to serve the Bannock bread into bowls for tasting. Enjoy your Bannock bread! 

Reproduced from the original post found on Scouts UK: https://www.scouts.org.uk/activities/bake-campfire-bannock-bread/

Before you begin 

• Use the safety checklist to help you plan and risk assess your activity. Take a look at our guidance to help you carry out your risk assessment, including examples.  
• Make sure all young people and adults involved in the activity know how to take part safely.
• Make sure you’ll have enough adult helpers. You may need some parents and carers to help if you’re short on helpers. 

Getting ready to cook

1. Gather everyone together in a circle and tell them you’re going to make Campfire Fajitas. 
2. You may want to run a fire safety talk or show people how to use the equipment safely, such as for cooking on a campfire or chopping ingredients. 
3. Ask everyone to wash their hands before cooking, then collect the ingredients. People can get into groups or pairs, as needed. 

Potato packets

1. This recipe is designed to be cooked on a campfire, check out Construct a campfire for top tips on safely building one.
2. Everyone should wash their hands, then hand out the equipment and ingredients to each group.
3. Using scissors, cut 8 pieces of aluminium foil around 30 cm long. You need two for each packet.
4. Cut the potatoes into round slices, which are about half a centimetre wide
5. Cut the chicken sausages into quarters. The equipment used to cut the chicken should be washed or put to one side for washing.
6. Put all the ingredients into a large mixing bowl. Add the paprika, thyme, salt and oil.
7. Mix all the ingredients together until everything is coated with the oil and spices.
8. Lay out four aluminium foil sheets on a baking tray, which will help to contain the ingredients.
9. Using a spoon, divide the ingredient mixture evenly between them, placing in a pile in the middle of each sheet.
10. Fold the edges of the sheets over the ingredients, fully sealing in the goodness.
11. Place each packet, with the folded side facing down, onto another sheet of aluminium foil.
12. Wrap the packet up again using the second foil sheet to make sure all the food stays inside.
13. Cook the packets for 25 minutes, or until the sausages are fully cooked, over campfire embers. Use heatproof gloves or tongs to remove the packets, which should be done by an adult or under adult supervision.

Reproduced from the original post found on Scouts UK: https://www.scouts.org.uk/activities/sausage-pepper-and-potato-packets/

Before you begin

• Use the safety checklist to help you plan and risk assess your activity. Additional help to carry out your risk assessment, including examples can be found here. Don’t forget to make sure all young people and adults involved in the activity know how to take part safely.
• Make sure you’ll have enough adult helpers. You may need some parents and carers to help if you’re short on helpers.

Getting ready to cook

• Ensure everyone’s washed their hands before cooking or preparing the mixture.
• Before this activity, you could run Be an emergency aider: burns and Sitting safely by a campfire to help everyone to stay safe
• Create a campfire ready to cook on. Use our activity, Construct a campfire, for a step-by-step guide to building a fire and some top tips.
• Make up enough brownie mix for everyone. As a guide, a packet of brownie mix fills about five oranges. It’s up to you whether you use a pre-made brownie mix, or make your own.
• Ensure the mixture caters for all dietary requirements and allergies in your group. We’ve included a dairy-free and egg-free recipe that can be made gluten free too.
• Slice the tops off of the oranges.

Make the oranges

1. Everyone should wash their hands and get ready to cook. The next step is messy, so everyone should protect surfaces (and their clothes!) with aprons, or old newspapers or bags.
2. Give everyone an orange with the top cut off and a dessert spoon. Everyone should use the dessert spoon to scoop out the inside of the orange.
3. The inside of the orange doesn’t have to be thrown away, think about other ways to use it, such as eating it or straining it over a sieve for juice. 
4. Everyone should fill their empty orange half full with brownie mix. No one should overfill the orange. The mixture expands while it cooks, so overfilled oranges could create a brownie volcano! 
5. Ask everyone to put the top back on their orange, like a perfectly fitting lid. Then wrap their orange in tinfoil. 
6. An adult should use tongs and heat-resistant gloves to put the oranges in the embers of the fire.
7. Everyone should try to remember where their orange is – maybe they could sit opposite it.
8. After ten minutes, an adult should use the tongs and heat-resistant gloves to turn the oranges over so both sides cook evenly. 
9. While the oranges are cooking everyone could help clean up or play a game such as Citrus switch. 
10. An adult should check the orange brownies are cooked by holding them with tongs and heat-resistant gloves. Push a cocktail stick or skewer into the centre. If it comes out pretty dry, the oranges are ready! If it’s covered in sticky, sloppy, mixture, leave it in the fire to cook for a few more minutes. 
11. Once everyone’s orange brownie is cooked, they should leave it for a few minutes to cool down. Then they should enjoy eating the juicy brownie with a spoon.

Reproduced from the original post found on Scouts UK: https://www.scouts.org.uk/activities/cook-campfire-chocolate-oranges/

Before you begin 

• Use the safety checklist to help you plan and risk assess your activity. Additional help to carry out your risk assessment, including examples can be found here. Don’t forget to make sure all young people and adults involved in the activity know how to take part safely. 
• Make sure you’ll have enough adult helpers. You may need some parents and carers to help if you’re short on helpers 

Planning this activity 

• Be aware that melted marshmallow can become extremely hot and burn mouths and skin. 
• Marshmallows are not advised for children under 6 as they can be a choking hazard. Take a look at meal safety advice for four and five year olds to prevent choking. 
• You could do this activity around National S’mores Day on 10 August. 
• It’s important to use water-soaked wooden skewers rather than metal skewers, which could get hot and burn people’s hands. 
• You could also use wooden handled extendable toasting fork, ensuring that hands don’t get too close to heat or fire. 
• Remember to check your ingredients against any allergy or dietary requirements to ensure everyone can enjoy the recipe. This may mean using alternative ingredients. 

Building a fire and preparing to cook on a campfire 

• Build and light a fire before starting this activity. Our activities, Campfire admirers or Construct a campfire, can help you to do this. You’ll use the hot embers to cook on, so the fire will need enough time to die down before cooking. 
• You could run our fire safety activities, Fuel air ignition and Sitting safely by a campfire, prior to running this session. 

Having a safe cooking source 

• Make sure that everyone’s fires have been built outdoors in clear, open areas, with plenty of ventilation, and away from any areas where people will be sleeping.  
• All the fires need to burn down to hot embers before they can start cooking. This increases the chance of the fuel burning without enough oxygen present, increasing the risk of carbon monoxide exposure. We have more guidance on different cooking methods. 

Getting ready to cook 

1. Gather everyone together in a circle and tell them you’re going to make some s’mores. 
2. You may want to run a fire safety talk and show people how to use the equipment safely. 
3. Make sure the wooden skewers have been soaked in water, to prevent them setting on fire.  
4. It’s important to use wooden skewers rather than metal skewers, which could get hot and burn people’s hands.  
5. You could also use wooden handled extendable toasting fork, ensuring that hands don’t get too close to heat or fire. 

Make your s’mores 

1. Gather everyone in a circle and tell people that they’re going to make s’mores. 
2. Ask everyone to wash their hands.  
3. Everyone should take a skewer and marshmallow. Make sure your wooden skewer has been soaked in water, to help stop it setting on fire.  
4. Gently push the marshmallow onto the top of the skewer. 
5. With adult supervision, everyone should toast a marshmallow above the embers of a campfire, until it’s golden and gooey.  
6. When ready, remove the marshmallow from the fire and take a plate. 
7. Now, everyone should take two chocolate digestive biscuits, making sure that the chocolate sides are in the middle, and make a marshmallow sandwich using the gooey marshmallow. 

Be careful, as the marshmallow will be very hot. You could use a fork to help you get the marshmallow off the skewer or clamp the marshmallow gently between the two biscuits, so you don’t need to touch it to get it off the skewer. 

8. Wait for a few moments for the heat of the marshmallow to melt the chocolate, and for it to cool down a little. 
9. Enjoy your gooey campfire treat!  

Reproduced from the original post found on Scouts UK: https://www.scouts.org.uk/activities/scrumptious-s-mores/