One of the things we’ve loved doing this summer was toasting marshmallows around a fire. The little boys actually did this in forest school last academic year as well, which they thought was brilliant, but it’s also something we enjoy doing at home. It’s also a fun thing to do when their friends come over.
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We’ve made a fire pit in the garden, but you really don’t need anything like that to still have all the fun. You can use a chimenea, or even a small disposable BBQ.
With our firepit, I dug out a circle of soil and lined it with stones from the garden. We then built a small fire in the centre for the children to toast their marshmallows on.
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We do love the giant American marshmallows you can get, but we tend to find the smaller ones work much better, in that they melt more easily and are a better consistency.
You can of course get even more fancy and make smores. When we have done this in the past I put cookies, Nutella and marshmallows on a tray for the children to build their perfect smores.
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We like the fire products from White Horse Energy for our perfect marshmallow-toasting fire pit. We use one of their eco blaze firelighters – these are an absolute bargain at £15.00 a box as you get 200 of them, some of their kindling strips (which we use on our log burner in the winter too) and then a couple of kiln-dried boxed firewood logs – this is plenty for marshmallow toasting.
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Although we love doing this in the summer, you can toast marshmallows all year round, it’s just a bit trickier on a wet day, that’s all.
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4 comments
Cant beat the taste – our family loves
Never did this as a child myself so going to give it a go
Love this article. Thank you for sharing.
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