City Girl Builds a Campfire

I've mentioned that this year camping will be my classroom theme.  I thought it would be fun for my students, and fun for me too.  One thing that comes to mind when you think about camping is telling stories around the campfire.  Sooo, I wanted to have a campfire for my students to read their stories around.  Here it is, what do you think?

Since I'm a teacher, and on a tight budget, I managed to throw this together for a whopping $2.  I bought a pizza pan at the Dollar Tree, as well as a package of red and orange tissue paper.  I lined the tray with rocks, then hot glued them down.  I also hot glued some sticks into a little teepee shape.  Then I bunched and twisted up tissue paper and glued that to the tray as well.  In my typical "day late, dollar short" fashion, I realized that I should have spray painted that pizza tray.  I'm thinking it could still happen though.  All in all, I think that my little fourth grade friends will get a kick out of sharing their writing around the campfire.