Create a make-believe campfire with the hand prints of the students in your class. Trace each child's hand on an orange, yellow or red piece of paper. Cut out two long, brown pieces of paper and crisscross them to represent logs, placing the children's hand prints on top to represent a fire. You can also make a banner for your campfire by having each child place his hand in paint and press it against the banner. Write down the name of your school and date of the campfire and hang it up.
Children can make marshmallow roasting sticks for their campfire using simple objects. You can help the preschoolers unwind a hanger to use for their marshmallows, but this requires extensive adult supervision in order to ensure the safety of the children. You can also purchase thin dowels without pointed ends at a hardware store. Give the children paint and ask them to decorate their sticks. Let them dry overnight and take them to the campfire so the children can roast their marshmallows.
Children can make their own campfire out of paper or toilet paper rolls. Have the children take empty toilet paper rolls and paint them brown to represent logs. Instruct the children can to crumple up pieces of yellow, orange and red tissue paper and glue them to the "logs," creating a campfire. In addition, children can use safety scissors to cut red, yellow and orange flames out of construction paper and place them atop brown construction paper "logs."
Food is an essential part of a campfire, whether it is baked beans, popcorn or s'mores. Have the children in your class draw the types of food people eat at a campfire. For older preschool students, you can ask them to use clay to "make" food for a real or pretend campfire. You can bake these clay pieces and the children can paint them once they have hardened.