Week 5: Fun Activity for Camping

 

Week 5: Fun Activity for Camping

 

Week 5's activity was to go camping! Wrong time of year or no place to go: Set up a tent in your living room, complete with flameless candles to imitate a campfire.  No tent: Create one out of blankets like you did as a kid.  Don’t forget the marshmallows!  Indoor camping: you can still make S’mores by toasting the marshmallows over the stovetop on a long-handled fork or something similar but watch closely for messy drips! I have also made s'mores in an air fryer by melting the chocolate (I used white chocolate chips) and the marshmallows onto the graham crackers on a tray in the air fryer.  (Since I am posting this in February, you can always put this activity on a checklist and save it for warmer weather.)

 

Since it is definitely too cold to go camping and, unfortunately, we do not own a tent, we sent up a blanket tent for indoor camping.  Silly, but fun! We used flameless candles for the ambience and played fire cracking sounds on our Echo speaker.  I decided to make air fryer s'mores.  I used mini peanut butter cups (cut in fourths) in place of candy bars, then added bananas (which were not air fried) to the toasty marshmallows and graham crackers for my version of s'mores.  Very good and sweet, ate them open faced, and only ate one each as they are pretty sweet.  If you make these, I cooked them at 400 degrees on the top shelf for about 1.5 minutes (pre-heated air fryer for a few minutes first.).  These are so good Mel says he prefers them over cake, so they will be a good treat even on non indoor camping days, LOL!