Our church hosted a "Kingdom Chronicles" VBS this year so I needed to come up with some simple and inexpensive medieval decorations. Here's ...
How can you help kids travel back in time to the medieval era, a time of knights, dragons, and castles, as they discover the armor of God? By transforming your church into a medieval castle with awesome decorations, of course.
Create a feature wall with a simple technique using sponges and Annie Sloan's Chalk Paint. My son Colin did this wall in his bedroom in several hours. We did a makeover on his room awhile back but I never finished sharing it until now. I always thought the wall behind the bed needed a little oomph. What do you think? Take a look below at the plain wall. This is how the room looked before Colin did the stone wall treatment. My ideas ranged from painting chevron or stripes or even just a darker color. Then one day I mentioned, how about doing a stone wall like the one we painted together in my shop. Look familiar? Its the floor at Maison Decor. That did it! He loved the idea and was quick to get the project underway. He did it while I was at work one Saturday and I think it came out fantastic! He started at the ceiling and used large sponges and rolled the paint onto the sponge and then stamped the wall. He prepped the wall with a basic flat wall paint from Valspar, called Knight's Armour. Any dark charcoal or black paint will do, just have it be matte finish. Stamping the blocks in rows until he got to the bottom he would quickly finish the wall. He used Paris Grey Chalk Paint for the blocks and a little bit of Graphite for depth hand brushed over the blocks of Paris Grey. Lamps with burlap shades from HomeGoods look great on the bedside tables, also painted in Graphite, leaving the tops natural. http://maisondecor8.blogspot.com/2013/07/ragging-walls-and-more-cobblestones.html This is a tutorial on how we did the floor if you are interested. Part of the group of accessories we selected from our local HomeGoods included this very cool driftwood mirror. We also got the Lane wood base lamps with burlap shades and a bunch of pillows in shades of brown and black. Pillows and a black driftwood mirror from HomeGoods complete the look. We like to mix in old with the new to get a room that has individual flair and style. So mix it up with vintage finds, like trunks and taxidermy and then throw on some brand new plaid flannel sheets from HomeGoods to create a great looking room, with masculine appeal. He loves it, and so do I. Note: this post is partially sponsored by HomeGoods as part of my participation in their Pinterest program called Happy By Design. To see tips from other HomeGoods Designers visit our board! It is pretty fabulous!
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How can you help kids travel back in time to the medieval era, a time of knights, dragons, and castles, as they discover the armor of God? By transforming your church into a medieval castle with awesome decorations, of course.
How can you help kids travel back in time to the medieval era, a time of knights, dragons, and castles, as they discover the armor of God? By transforming your church into a medieval castle with awesome decorations, of course.
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I am in charge of VBS decorations again this year. The theme is Kingdom Chronicles which is sort of a Medieval/castle/knights type of theme...fun! Here are a few things I have worked on so far: I made this stained glass window by cutting the design out of heavy black paper (from good ol' Amazon). It was pretty cumbersome to do, but I put clear contact paper across the whole thing with the sticky side up. Then I layered squares of tissue paper all over and then covered it with another layer of contact paper. We have at least 5 more of these to make...time to delegate! :) These are torches to hang on the walls of the 'castle'. They are made of rolled up gold corrugated paper and the flames are made of orange and yellow tissue paper and metallic red deco mesh. Deco mesh is the trendy thing right now and I happen to think it is uglier than all get out, but it works for this project!
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Some of the kids sang the theme song during church Sunday morning. Last week our church held VBS. This year's theme was Kingdom Rock: Stand Strong for Jesus. The kids had a wonderful time (as always) and learned so much. I was in charge of preschool crafts again this year and had a great time doing that. I thought I'd share a few pictures from our week. Laura and I made this castle from cardboard boxes for the preschool craft room. The entrance to the craft room. Daniel Allison and Georgie Jack We made these watercolor crosses the day we learned about Jesus dying on the cross. We started with a blank sheet of white paper with a cross traced on it. The kids had to color the cross with white crayon. Then when we water colored the paper the cross stayed white. It was a wonderful way to show the kids that even though we can't see Jesus (like when the colored the cross white) we know He is there. If we trust, He will show us the way (like when we painted the page). We made wooden photo frames that held a picture of them from earlier in the week. We also made a prayer book from their hand prints which they filled with pictures of who they liked to pray for.
Another year of CCD started yesterday! We are all set for a year of learning and praying and growing. No exciting news yet, but I will show you a peek of our decorations: This year the theme is "Put on the Whole Armor of God!" from Ephesians 6. I have already posted a few activities about the Armor of God here and here and here and will be posting about our Armor of God Boys' Retreat soon. Here is the view coming down the stairs into our CCD hallway: Foam swords, shield, and draped silver plastic tablecloths give a dramatic flair... the shield was from Hobby Lobby and the swords from Dollar General. Flanked on both sides with pennants and posters about the "weapons" in the Armor of God. These posters are by North Star Teacher Resources. Then, first thing in the hallway is our Be Soldiers bulletin board. ...complete with some Armor of God resources, games, and books that will be added to throughout the year. More pennants and shields and swords... Speaking of swords, I got these on major sale (I think 90% off!) a while ago and stocked them away knowing that they would be useful. I wrote "The Sword of the Spirit" on one side in Sharpie, and "For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two edged sword." (Heb. 4:12) on the other side. At least when the boys are beating each other with these, they might get some Scripture through osmosis, right? I haven't used these cute helmet of salvation foam cut outs yet, but I see a bulletin board in the future! These are from Hobby Lobby. This cute poster is hanging in between our preschool and K/1 rooms. (Made by Carson Dellosa) And I also made some posters to go along with the theme: and St. Michael is our patron Saint: It's looking pretty good! The catechists' classroom are also looking better than ever, each with their own flair. These kids are in for a good year! :)
Our church hosted a "Kingdom Chronicles" VBS this year so I needed to come up with some simple and inexpensive medieval decorations. Here's ...
How can you help kids travel back in time to the medieval era, a time of knights, dragons, and castles, as they discover the armor of God? By transforming your church into a medieval castle with awesome decorations, of course.
