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Hey There!

We're taking a bunch of young-ins (8-10yrs olds) out for an overnight in a couple of months. I'm in charge of, you guessed it, campfire entertainment.

Do you have any good campfire stories, or songs? Would you be willing to share it? I've used up the two I know.

THANKS

Sorry E. I posted a story but I don't think the Elves liked it.

Is there a way to ban yourself?

Alpinist wrote:Sorry E. I posted a story but I don't think the Elves liked it.

Is there a way to ban yourself?

Check the Bad jokes! thread in Old Favorites!

Ya, OK.

clean stories welcome. afterall, these are kids....

The children's version, ie. condensed, of Jack London's, To Build a Fire. Excellent stuff.
Told a rough paraphrase of it once around a campfire and it had everyone silent afterward, looking into the fire.

tigerlilly wrote:Hey There!

We're taking a bunch of young-ins (8-10yrs olds) out for an overnight in a couple of months. I'm in charge of, you guessed it, campfire entertainment.

Do you have any good campfire stories, or songs? Would you be willing to share it? I've used up the two I know.

THANKS

Last time I did that, I waited until the kids were in the tents for a while, then growled and scratched the tent walls. It helped that the camp leaders had already explained about bears and not leaving food around, etc. But then this was somewhat past campfire time....

tigerlilly wrote:Hey There!

We're taking a bunch of young-ins (8-10yrs olds) out for an overnight in a couple of months. I'm in charge of, you guessed it, campfire entertainment...

Ok, I'll be serious now. Are these kids little boys or girls? Makes a difference in the type/tone of the story. I once roomed with a couple of guys in a haunted house. Really, it was....but we didn't know it until we were in for a while. Stories are a bit long for the forum, but I can relate 'em offline if you like.

F_Rhoderick wrote:The campfire story from "Meatballs" comes to mind.

Bill Murray was great, but wasn't that one rated as PG ???

Gotta do the "Golden Arm":

Build it up as you will, the hero/thief/statue/king/queen/...
whose golden arm is the pride and joy/unique property/magical whatsis/...
that get's stolen, and he (she?) was desolate/enraged/unconsolable/...
asking "Who has my Golden Arm?" everywhere
wandering the land (repeat to appropriate length from say China to India to Turkey to Greece to Spain to Cuba to Alabama ...)
for years/decades/centuries/millenia/... (specify along with choice of place as you will),
optional here to add in carnage as the bereft one-armed figure becomes increasingly aggressive/violent/outrageous/...
until just recently when reported in nearest state/city/town/neighborhood/park/woods/... (pick up from earlier trajectory, and repeat narrowing as needed to just around the corner),
ever moaning/groaning/weeping/crying/whispering "Who has my Golden Arm?"

and when you've got them on the edge of their rocks

grab the nearest reasonably strong-charactered camper (careful whom you sit next to) while loudly proclaiming/yelling/shrieking/screaming/...

"YOU DO!"

Most effective of course if begun just at dusk and not finished until pretty dark,
OR
begun with the fire starting to diminish, down to coals by the finish,
etc. as you will.

Dramatic voicing requisite of course.

Now why can't I remember any of the many others, it's only been 55 years....

DON'T ASK!

I told a story a few years ago in Boy Scouts, scared the crap out of people. I pretty much just made it up as I went, talking about how a kid was angry with society and ran off into the woods, hacking off the limbs of animals to augment himself with their body parts, then when he was more animal than human, killing people in the night. The thing that made it scary was that as I went along, I told of the noises he made...which were an exact mimicry of the very noises I was hearing in the woods as I told the story. I will have to do that again sometime.

-mark

They are mostly boys. Some girl siblings get dragged along.

I usually read a good story from this book. It gets people scared!