Here's a way to start your very own fire and cook on it! You can do this in your backyard (*To be done under adult supervision) -
1. Build a fire pit on top of gravel, sand, or bare soil.
Important: select a flat spot away from trees, dry grass, and anything else that could burn. Stay clear of overhanging branches and tree roots in the ground that could catch fire. Clear away any flammable debris (leaves, sticks, pine needles, etc…) for at least ten feet around the fire pit
2. Accumulate dry wood and put it into the fire pit
3. Make a tinder nest out of anything that catches fire easily, like dry grass, leaves, and bark
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1. Build a fire pit on top of gravel, sand, or bare soil.
Important: select a flat spot away from trees, dry grass, and anything else that could burn. Stay clear of overhanging branches and tree roots in the ground that could catch fire. Clear away any flammable debris (leaves, sticks, pine needles, etc…) for at least ten feet around the fire pit
2. Accumulate dry wood and put it into the fire pit
3. Make a tinder nest out of anything that catches fire easily, like dry grass, leaves, and bark
4. Create a spark using flint and steel - Steel and iron produce hot sparks when struck against any glassy stone such as quartz, jasper, agate or flint.
Alternatively,
use a lens or condensing reflector (such as a burning glass) to focus the energy from the sun onto tinder.
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A concave mirror, such as a polished soda can bottom, can also be used to focus the sun's rays on tinder.
5. Use the spark to put the tinder nest on fire, then put the nest onto the dry wood to start a full fire.
6. Boil water in a vessel over the fire you have just started & make a pack of delicious NOODLES on your very OWN fire!
Below is a video that shows fire being created using flint and steel-
http://youtu.be/Te8rYiwcun4
http://youtu.be/Te8rYiwcun4
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