Evening Preparations

Launches 15 August at 4pm
We hope you'd had a great day so far with loads of challenges completed. It's time to think about the evening now. Where will you be sleeping tonight? Will you have a real campfire or a pretend one? Oh, and don't forget to stop for dinner!

Den building, Swedish style

We love these IKEA style den ideas. Which one will you try?

Campfire building, South Africa

A new analysis of burned antelope bones from caves in Swartkrans, South Africa, confirms that Australopithecus robustus and Homo erectus built campfires roughly 1.6 million years ago. Nearby evidence within Wonderwerk Cave, at the edge of the Kalahari Desert, has been called the oldest known controlled fire.

Not everyone is able to light a real fire but if you are doing this please make sure your grown up is there to support you and ensure you do it safely.

If you've not got a real fire to light then why not set up a pretend one? What could you make it from? Maybe some real sticks or twigs from the garden and some coloured tissue paper for the flames? 

Show us your dens & campfires

We'd love for you to share your dens with us. We'll share some of your photos below once the camp is underway.