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Spell Bee Word: Campfire


What does campfire mean?

Word: Campfire

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Campfire means an outdoor fire that campers light to keep warm, cook food or sit around in the evening.

How do you spell campfire?

Syllables: camp - fire

Tricky part: It is one word, with no space or hyphen. The fire part keeps its usual i-r-e ending, even though it can sound like fyer.

Watch out for: campfair, campfiar, campfyer

Memory tip: The fire in campfire ends the same way as wire and hire: i-r-e.

Campfire in a sentence

Example 1: We roasted corn over the campfire at the Scout camp.

Example 2: Uncle told funny stories around the campfire.

Example 3: Ten of us sat in a circle round the campfire, singing songs.

Fun Fact

Baden-Powell's 1908 book Scouting for Boys is made up of Camp Fire Yarns, short talks meant to be read to Scouts around a campfire.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Makeup

Choose the correctly spelt compound word:

a) kampfire
b) campffire
c) cammpfire
d) campfire

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d) campfire. It is simply camp plus fire, with no letter doubled or swapped.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

pefimcar

a) capmfire
b) cmapfire
c) campfire
d) cpamfire

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c) campfire. Two short words hide here: a place to stay outdoors and the thing you light.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) lantern
b) picnic
c) camfire
d) blanket

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c) camfire. Say camp clearly and you hear its p.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letters to form a word:

c_mp_ire

a) a, v
b) a, f
c) o, f
d) u, f

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b) a, f. Camp has an a, and fire starts with f.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do campers pour water on a campfire before bed?

a) so it cannot spread
b) so it makes smoke
c) so it burns brighter
d) so the food cooks

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a) so it cannot spread

2. What is best for starting a campfire?

a) green grass
b) wet leaves
c) damp logs
d) dry twigs

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d) dry twigs

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