Fragrant fire starters

Add a touch of fragrance to your next fireplace fire or campfire by including aromatic herbs into your homemade fire starters.

These Fancy DIY Dryer Lint Fire Starters are a festive and frugal way to light your wood burning fireplace and recycle your dryer lint as well.

In our home, the holiday season means roaring fires in our wood-burning fireplace for Christmas and festive S'mores by the fire pit outside with Hot Chocolate. Building a great fire is an art form that starts with having the right supplies like our DIY Wax Fire Starters. #holidaygift #diyholiday #firestarter #thismessisours

Learn to craft DIY fire starters with our easy guide. Perfect for gifts, complete with free printable tags to add a personal touch to your creations.

DIY firestarter candles are easy to make with beeswax and natural scented ingredients. Perfect to use in a firepit.

I liked the many suggestions for using paper towel and toilet paper rolls. My problem was that I didnt have a good way to stuff the rolls and pour/dip them in wax. Then I remembered my camp craft class where we made paper baskets (this was a looong time ago!).

Do you love a good fire in your fire pit? But you have trouble with bugs this year? Us too, so we created this DIY Fire Starter with dried herbs to repell the bugs. Follow us to find out how we did it!

I made and tested 29 different DIY fire starters. Here are the results for which fire starter worked best.

Making your own highly effective, DIY fire starters with sawdust and wax is easy. Learn how here.