How to make homemade fire starters
Get your outdoor fun underway with these easy homemade fire starters using items you have on hand! Perfect for the backyard bonfire or the weekend campfire!
Don’t throw out that dryer lint quite yet! These homemade fire starters will put that lint to use and two more items you most likely have on hand already! Really, all you need is some lint, toilet paper rolls and wax paper. They’re ridiculously easy AND are a great way to “recycle” materials you already have.
Here’s how to make Homemade Fire Starters:
MATERIALS
- Dryer lint
- Toilet paper/paper towel rolls
- Wax paper
- Scissors
DIRECTIONS
1. Remove the lint from your dryer lint trap
2. Cut your paper towel rolls into thirds or leave toilet paper rolls whole
3. Stuff your paper rolls with the dryer lint, but don’t pack it in too tight
4. Cut a 6″ piece of wax paper
5. Place your paper roll in the center, wrap the long sides over each other and twist the ends
6. Trim the ends of your wax paper if you’d like
TO USE: place one of your fire starters under a few pieces of kindling and light the end of your wax paper
** Lint is very flammable, store in a metal box
Thanks for this.
Wanted to know if there is anything else that’s cheap apart from cotton makeup pads that’s cheap that can be used.
Is it safe to add food color or something of the sort for color? Don’t even know if the color would show. I buy some from Amazon that have color but you add the color packets at the end after you have finished with hot dogs, marshmallows etc… Probably should be two separate things. My Grandchildren are fascinated by the colors and can’t wait for everyone to finish up their food!
The colours are made when different chemicals burn. The easiest would be to add sugar.
what to do if you don’t have dryer lint?
Go to a laundry matt and get some. They will think you are crazy. Just tell them you are crazy, or it’s for a daughter/grand daughter school project
Can you use parchment paper
Love these! We’ve been making them for years and they are awesome! We don’t use wax paper, but we use newspaper and we also use empty paper towel rolls too. Thanks for sharing as these are low cost as always great to give as gifts for those who like to camp.