Bonfires have become the face of teenage group relaxation. A nice small, warm fire with a cup of hot chocolate is how most might picture it. Maybe with someone playing a guitar nice and soft to keep a mellow feel infused in each person staring into the mesmerizing fire. What most of us don’t want to admit is that’s incredibly boring. But what can we do about it? I mean it’s a bonfire. Well, I will give you step by step instructions to through a bonfire that will be talked about for years to come.

Preparations start at least two days in advance. First, invite all of your friends (obviously, be sure not to invite people who think anything other than reading a book is “childish”. This will be a high energy party.

Next, make sure you have fairly large fire pit and LOTS of burnables. This may include old furniture, logs, timber, and old school work. Maybe even current school work. Or maybe not. Also some kindling to get things started. All of this should be done 2 days prior to the bonfire.

One day prior to the bonfire, obtain conformations as to who will be attending. Make sure your house is presentable and clean (this is more for your mom’s sake). Set up a snack table about fifteen feet from the fire. This will be a large fire.

Now for the day of. Get everyone around the fire pit. Put just a few burnables in there and use kindling to start the fire. Take a piece of wood that is two to three foot long. Stand about five to ten feet back depending on how well you can throw. Toss the stick onto the fire.  So now your fire has started.

Make sure the fire is steadily burning. Once you have achieved this then you can now involve your audience. Have each person take one piece of the pile of burnables at a time and through it into the fire.  Now get somebody to play a high energy up beat song, preferably Wake Up by Arcade Fire, on the guitar and make sure the majority of the audience is singing along as you dance around the fire. After a while things might start to settle down.

Soon things begin to settle down and people begin to sit down and talk about their feeling while someone plays softly on the guitar. To close off the night, just like any other bonfire, you just allow everyone to leave there as they desire. All you do is sit back with the peace of mind that you just threw a monumental and memorable bonfire.