I gathered up all my materials one day and set to work making some homemade fire starters.
All you need to make homemade fire starters are recycled paper egg cartons, some wax and a few combustible items (I just used dryer lint, empty toilet paper tubes and the lids of the egg cartons (torn into shreds). I was worried I wouldn't have enough filler material but as it turns out, I had way more than enough!
Fill your egg cartons with combustible material:


Pour melted wax over your combustible materials. You don't need to submerge everything in the wax. You just need enough wax to just hold everything together (and it slows down the burning):

Allow wax to cool. Then cut apart sections.

To use, light a corner of the egg carton. Of course, please use your fire starters with extreme caution!
We put four or five fire starters in a sandwich bag and keep a bag in each of our emergency packs. The rest are stored with our camping gear. Now whenever The Boy goes camping with the scouts, he takes a few fire starters with him.