Welcome! Summer days means long days outside and even backyard camping.
I have been doing lots of yard work. Having gathered up some old limbs and deciding to burn them in my yard last night, I figured I would kill two birds with one stone and make some smores and roasted hot dogs. I am a little picky, so I usually take the wire hangers back to the dry cleaners once I have put the clothing on my permanent hangers. I just happened to have picked up a batch of cleaning recently so I had the hangers on hand to make some camp roasting sticks. These hangers are uncoated which makes them safe to use for this purpose.
This is a really fun project you can do with your kids and doesn't take a ton of materials or prep time. Make your roasting stick today and be roasting delicious s'mores, hot dogs and marshmallows by tonight!
I used wood dowels that are about 1" in diameter and cut them into pieces about 10" long. Then, we drilled a hole in the center and glued a recycled wire hanger into the hole using Aleenes Liquid Fusion. Of course, we straightened the hanger before insertion. The fun part comes when you let your little ones loose to paint, draw, color designs on the sticks. It may be a bit easier for them to decorate the sticks before you glue the hanger into the drilled hole.
Happy Roasting!
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Posted by: bedroom furniture | July 28, 2013 at 12:48 PM
What a fun idea!
Posted by: robbie @ going green mama | July 20, 2013 at 07:16 AM
I love this idea for my Girl Scouts, and my Cub Scout, I am going to try to get my Cadettes to do this themselves at our next camp out .
Posted by: tisa | April 6, 2013 at 01:30 AM
I am not sure if what you are doing is good or advisable. It must be known that the smoke from those burnt things are not the same with the smoke that we use for barbecues.
Posted by: Sheri Green | January 22, 2013 at 11:47 AM
Hi! Do you do custom orders for folks??
Posted by: Heidi Snyder | January 14, 2013 at 03:38 PM
Jennifer, I haven't experienced any problem with the regular metal kind but if you want to be extra safe, you could use the white ones that are uncoated or even a metal stick designs for the purpose and make your own dowel handle
Posted by: Melony Bradley | June 13, 2012 at 07:44 AM
Oh no! Hangers are VERY often coated with plastics (or even made out of metals)that you would NOT want to ingest when heated/burned. SERIOUS toxic ingestion could occur.
Posted by: Jennifer Meredith | June 12, 2012 at 06:13 PM
What kind of glue works best?
Posted by: Chary | June 11, 2012 at 12:14 PM
Super great idea!
Posted by: Michelle Frae cummings | March 5, 2012 at 09:19 PM
fabulous idea! very cute TFS
Posted by: Becky Conley | March 5, 2012 at 12:23 PM
Great idea! I love your project...easy, pretty and fun!
Posted by: Einat Kessler | March 5, 2012 at 07:53 AM
Jeder ist ein Guter Gewinner doch keiner kann ein Guter verlierer sein .
Posted by: Maddy Rahwrr | March 5, 2012 at 07:42 AM
Hi Mel, great to see you on Craft Schooling Sunday and LOVE this project! all the best!
Posted by: [email protected] | August 27, 2011 at 05:21 PM
Cute idea! We made smores in the oven this week for our living room campout but its so not the same! We discussed getting a fire pit one day! We'll have to make these!
Posted by: destiny | July 1, 2010 at 12:36 AM
Fun project Mel! I used to LOVE that magazine when I was a girl scout and cub scout leader!
Posted by: Kristine Reynolds | June 28, 2010 at 04:26 PM