To be in the company of 4 year olds is indeed a gift in so many ways. They love the world of make-believe and are keen to follow you (usually) wherever you want to go. As I was getting ready for my pre-schoolers’ Yoga class this past week, the unthinkable happened…the electricity went out! (We did have some emergency lights on so we weren’t in total darkness but close enough).  No lights. No music. And now no plan! With a pack of 4 year old boys descending upon me!

What to do? I thought to myself, when do you sit around a circle in the dark? Why, at a campfire of course!   So began our adventure into the wilderness. First, we needed fire. Luckily, I had been planning on using bean bags for one of the activities, so we talked a bit about what colors make up fire. The consensus was orange, red and yellow, and sometimes blue. We chose to stick with the basics of red, orange and yellow. We put them in the middle of the circle and began to stoke the fire with our breath. Breathing in deeply through our noses and