Coffee Filter Campfire Craft

This cool coffee filter campfire is the perfect summer craft or fall activity for kids.

Your little camper will be so excited to “roast” their very own homemade marshmallows over their campfire!

It’s fairly easy to make, uses common household and craft supplies and only takes about 30 minutes (plus additional drying time). Don’t miss all of our other coffee filter crafts for kids for more fun project ideas!

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Bonfire Coffee Filter Craft

Do you have fond memories of socializing around bonfires as a child or roasting marshmallows near a campfire? 

Nothing is better than a campfire on cool nights!

These make a great summer or fall craft project to make at home, as a family, or at school or camp.

Preschoolers and kindergartners will practice fine gross motor skills as they color the coffee filters and paint the craft sticks.

Elementary age children can practice folding, cutting, gluing and assembling this art project.

Children will also love spraying these coffee filters with water and watching how the colors blend to look like real flames!

These make great props for letting kids use their imagination and engaging in pretend play. Plus, they are an added bonus for nostalgia.

These would also make awesome centerpieces for an outdoorsy or camp-themed birthday party.

After making pretend marshmallows to roast over the fire, save the leftover cotton balls to make these cotton ball snowmen.

Coffee Filter Campfire Craft Supplies:

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• Toilet Paper Tubes 
• Round White Coffee Filters
• Washable Markers – Brown, Yellow, Orange, Red
• Liquid Glue
• Brown Acrylic Craft Paint
• Craft Sticks
• Jumbo Cotton Balls
• Paintbrush
• Scissors
• Water Spray Bottle (for color blending)
• Paper Plate, Zippered Baggie or Craft mat

How to Make a Coffee Filter Campfire:

Start by flattening out round coffee filters. Draw on them coloring red in the center, orange in the middle and yellow at the edges. I used 3 total for a fuller look.

Place the colored coffee filters on a paper plate, craft mat or large zipper baggie and spray with water.

Have fun watching the magic of the colors move and blend! Set aside to dry.

Using a separate paper plate or zippered bag, paint all sides of the craft sticks (allowing them to dry in between flipping) with brown craft paint and a paintbrush.

While these are drying, cut 2 toilet paper tubes in half (for a total of 4 pieces). Draw on them on the outer sides (upside down U shape) with a variety of squiggles and lines to look like tree bark.

Make 1” cuts into one side of 2 of the “logs”.

Once your coffee filter is dry, fold it in half and then in half again and again (3 total folds) until the bottom forms a pointed tip. 

If using multiple coffee filters, I recommend stacking them before folding and cutting.

Next, make two slightly rounded cuts that end in a tip onto the wider side (so that when you unfold it, it looks like flames).

Glue a cotton ball onto the ends of each dried craft stick. Allow to dry.

Now it’s time to assemble your campfire! Gently unfold your cut coffee filter “fire” and slide two of the folds into the cuts in the toilet paper tubes.

Arrange these on top of your other toilet paper “logs” to form an X shape. Use small dabs of glue to help hold in place, if needed.

Once everything is dry, enjoy endless amounts of fun pretending to roast “marshmallows” over your campfire craft! 

Helpful tip: this entire craft fits on a standard paper plate for easy transport.

More Coffee Filter Crafts:

• Coffee Filter Turkeys
• Coffee Filter Reindeer
• Coffee Filter Angels
• Coffee Filter Peacock
• Coffee Filter Dragonfly