I have a soft copy and wonder where I obtained it from...
This is all the info I could find:
- Campfire Magic is produced and provided to you by Royal Rangers
Section 14.
- For more information or additional copies please contact the Deputy Sectional
- Commander W. Lee Mikell at 561-992-9638.
- For more information or additional copies please contact the Deputy Sectional
- Campfire Magic
- It is very likely that a boy'sor an adult'sfondest memories of his
Royal Ranger experiences are of the times he sat around an evening's
campfire with some of his best buddies. Those campfires had a
magical quality to them a quality that often defies description.
One would be hard pressed to come up with a better way to end a day in
camp, or an evening's activity, than with a campfire. But leaders
with the skill and confidence to make good campfires happen often seem
few and far between.
- Perhaps you are one of those leaders who find it difficult to even think about involving your boys in a campfire, let alone set out to plan one by yourself. It is our hope that the following will help and that you will use the information, ideas and methods we set out, to help develop your skills in planning and leading campfires.
- A close relationship exists between the physical arrangements for a campfire and the actual program. While a beautiful setting, a well-designed and well-laid fire (lighted with a special method) is awe inspiring in itself, the magic soon wanes with a poorly planned and executed program. Take the time to develop a quality program, one that is well planned and with close attention paid to format and content, and it will be difficult to detract from it with less than ideal physical arrangements. No doubt you've seen an experienced campfire leader hold a group "in the palm of his hand" in a school gymnasium or church hall seated around an artificial campfire! The reason a good campfire leader is able to do it is program. He has paid particular attention to designing a campfire program that will involve and hold the interest of all the participants.
- There's a kind of magic about campfires. It's not evident right away because that's the rowdy fun time but, later, in the fading fire's glow as we sing spirituals and listen to a short yarn/devotion, huddling together perhaps for warmth but, most importantly, for human companionship - that's when the magic begins.
- Perhaps you are one of those leaders who find it difficult to even think about involving your boys in a campfire, let alone set out to plan one by yourself. It is our hope that the following will help and that you will use the information, ideas and methods we set out, to help develop your skills in planning and leading campfires.
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