DS and I have been working on making homemade hobo stoves for the past few weeks. Here's our most recent creation - a fire kit to help 8 yo DS practice his fire making skills. (It's little heavy for my liking but easy enough to pick and choose for each adventure.)

The entire kit is contained in a reclaimed Pirouline cookie tin. There are two hobo stoves - a big one made of an apple juice can and a small one made from a regular soup can. Between them is a 750 mL can for boiling water in.

Between the cookie tin and stoves there's: a piece of foil from a AMK Ritter PSK, 1 waterproof tampon holder containing strike anywhere matches (protected with nail polish), 1 LMF fire steel and striker, 5 fire starter sticks, 12 esbit discs (in original packaging).

Inside the stoves are: 3 tea lights, 1 mini bic, 1 mini fire steel and striker, 2 skewers to form a grill using holes in stoves, 1 small can of sterno and 1 tin (that used to hold hot chocolate) of vaseline soaked cotton balls.

Before the lid goes on the kit, a black garbage bag is added. Here's how it all looks: