Discover amazing creatures, explore Jesus' character, and learn to follow Him in your own unique
Discover amazing creatures, explore Jesus' character, and learn to follow Him in your own unique
Discover amazing creatures, explore Jesus' character, and learn to follow Him in your own unique
Discover amazing creatures, explore Jesus' character, and learn to follow Him in your own unique
Discover amazing creatures, explore Jesus' character, and learn to follow Him in your own unique
Discover amazing creatures, explore Jesus' character, and learn to follow Him in your own unique
Discover amazing creatures, explore Jesus' character, and learn to follow Him in your own unique
Discover amazing creatures, explore Jesus' character, and learn to follow Him in your own unique
Discover amazing creatures, explore Jesus' character, and learn to follow Him in your own unique
Discover amazing creatures, explore Jesus' character, and learn to follow Him in your own unique
Discover amazing creatures, explore Jesus' character, and learn to follow Him in your own unique
Discover amazing creatures, explore Jesus' character, and learn to follow Him in your own unique
Discover amazing creatures, explore Jesus' character, and learn to follow Him in your own unique
Discover amazing creatures, explore Jesus' character, and learn to follow Him in your own unique
Oh my, it is nearly two years later and I am FINALLY posting pictures! I have seriously got to get a handle on that! We have SO much fun putting together our Epic vacation bible school every year and I wanted to share with you what we have been up to! With it nearing VBS season again I thought I would take a trip down memory lane and share with you some great ideas that you can use for your own VBS! This year (2014) the theme was Wilderness Survival. The vision was to decorate the church with both desert and jungle themes! This was my first time in the role of "lead decor" and I had NO idea what I was doing (picture having to keep this all in fire code, yikes!) but luckily it all came together in the end! I will try to explain my technique for making things as I go... Here we covered the wall in kraft paper (Lowes or Home Depot in the painting section). Using tan wall paint and a large rectangle sponge, we "stamped" the wall to create bricks then went back and outlined sections in dark brown to make them stand out. It goes really fast if you stick to groupings of stone instead of every single one. The "sand" is just tan fabric by the yard from Joann's. I believe we ordered a few bolts online. The camel prop was ordered from the VBS catalog (we have since created out own VBS curriculum). The rocks are painted pieces of styrofoam. Keep going to see how we did the palm trees and vines. This large hallway I wanted to look like a cave! We used brown paper bags (amazingly cheap on dollartree.com) and crinkled them up and stapled them to the wall. WARNING: this took forever so I would suggest you stretch them as your staple to cover way more wall with less bag. And MUCH less staples! The effect in here was amazing! Here are our palm trees! We used pool noodles to create these. Cut a hole in a box a tad smaller than the noodle (so it stands up), cut the bottom off brown paper bags, and string them onto the noodle! I put a large paper plate on top to tape the leaves to. The leaves are just traces and cut from a roll of non-fade green paper. Drape the base in burlap or tan fabric to look like sand. That last picture is of our class photo area! The vines were my favorite craft! We used plastic table cloths from the Dollar Tree in a couple of different shades of green. These were really easy and each table cloth yeilds a ton of vines. Fold your tablecloth the long way a few times will it is about 5" wide. Trim the sides so you end up with long strips. Cut diagonal lines to the middle. TIP: make sure you stagger them so you dont ever cut all the way through! And even if you do you can always use short vines too! We used these EVERYWHERE! They were great fillers and really tied the theme together! As you will see in the second picture, we also used nets and hula skirts (dollartree.com) everywhere! The monkeys were also ordered online and below I will tell you how we made the rope vines... These rope vines were made using cut, twisted and staples brown paper bags. If I did this again, I would use skinny strips of rolled kraft paper instead. If would have gotten done much faster! We stapled leaves (again cut out of the non-fade paper) when we were done. These also went everywhere and were great for covering large expanses like the ceiling in the cafe. We also wrapped them around the check in area. Also on the ceiling you will see colorful paper lanterns. These are from Oriental Trading Company. This giant tree was my biggest project! The frame is made from PVC. It ended up being 12 feet tall! We used the rolls of brown kraft paper here as well. It is simple... roll it out, wrinkle it up, stretch it out, and tape it on top to bottom! The last picture shows you what it looked like from the inside. The branches were made the same way but left wrinkled and twisted. I wanted to add more but we ran out of time! This hallway is always the kids favorite. The black light hallway! Luckily one wall was already dark, the other we wrapped with a roll of black non-fade paper. The volunteers had fun make fish, octopus, turtles and other sea creatures using white paper and fluorescent paint! These were then stapled onto the wall. The floor was covered in clear balloons that we squirted with the florescent paint on the inside. The jellyfish are paper lanterns lightly painted with fluorescent paint, with streamers and white string hanging from them. The ceiling also had streamers and nets. The openeing to this hallways was made to look like a waterfall. We used clear celo wrap, paper bags (done in the same way as the cave hallway) and the flowers were made using more non-fade paper. And because the nursery kids are important too... we gave them a little decor!
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Why, Oh Why did it not occur to me to take some pictures of these palm trees in progress? Silly, I know! Pool Noodles are the secret to making palm trees. I taped two pool noodles together end to end with duct tape. Then I spray painted them brown. Each tree took about 100 lunch size paper sacks. I cut the bottoms off of all of them and then smooshed them down together. I slid the bags onto the pool noodles until I had the whole thing covered. The bottom and top bag got taped onto the pool noodle with masking tape and kinda scrunched around to cover up the tape. After that I took them outside and sprayed a little brown paint on them to give them a bit of texture. The palm leaves required 24 inch florist wire, hot glue and tissue paper. I cut the paper in half and laid the two rectangles end to end overlapping a little bit. Then I ran a generous bead of hot glue down the length of the paper starting about an inch from the end and embedded the wire in it. It took two pieces of wire for each one that overlapped in the middle and stuck out a few inches on one end. Then I glued the other piece of tissue on top over the same glue line. Next, I fringed the sides of the palm fronds. I used fishing twine in the top of the pool noodle to hang them from the drop ceiling. Then I jammed the wires into the hole in the end of the pool noodle and used more fishing line to position the fronds. Clear as MUD!
VBS during the summer of 2014 at our church was the Weird Animals theme from Group. In an effort to save money, the decorating team from our church makes many of the decorations themselves. If you are looking for ideas check these out! They cut out a variety of animal footprints and taped them to the floor throughout the church. This sign and paw prints are hanging on our Pastor's door This turtle was made three dimensional with the bottom of a soda bottle This is one of our pastors holding my pet snake. I brought the snake in since it was a weird animal theme.
Welcome to the jungle.
