Grab your buoys and jump on board – it’s time to get excited for SHIPWRECKED VBS! One of the most important early tasks is to get printed items ordered. Today I’m sharing our Shipwrecked VBS advertising postcards. This post may contain affiliate links. I earn a small percentage of anything you purchase through these links...
Day 3's gizmo is the Decoder Band. Here's a DIY alternative - Small Bead Decoder Bracelets! Check back for more posts on gizmo alternatives for the rest of the week, as well as craft options for the full week! Follow Borrowed Blessings for more VBS ideas & resources!
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Ahoy, mateys! Hold on to your hats, because it's going to be a wavey ride as we rock the boat with Shipwrecked: Rescued by Jesus VBS 2018!
This week following on from a mini series of sessions for the relating to the life of Paul starting a month ago at the last Children's Church. I don't believe I have posted that session due to camera issues. Play The pallet boat/ shipwreck formed the main focus of the room, and later allowed us to tell the story through drama including the children. During the play session, the children decorated the wood pallet with pens and played with the scene. The main writing on the pallet read "The good ship sinker and peace maker" Shipwrecked Scene using the wonderful tuff stop/ builders tray containing sand, blue fabric and playmobil shipwreck (added wooden people also) Play with wooden harbour set that I have used for many water story and is great for linking bible stories to modern situations/ experiences. Sensory Water and boats (small people were added) Alongside the boats blueish jelly with snakes and sea creatures in it. (Snakes relating to the snake that bit Paul on the island of Malta) Craft: Tights???? For more snakes of course Playdough to make snakes (and whatever else but once one person starts the others follow) And I do believe we had some rather beautiful snakes this week. The play dough invitations to play are always so very popular that I am trying to put a play dough activity every session. Wooden boats, although these were not fully able to be undertaken by the children they were popular and children enjoyed decorating them. Because they were able to float they provided great opportunity to follow up story at home. (I will see if I can find some pictures of completed boats) Food: (always a food activity- always popular) Biscuits, with icing with brown sugar for sand, flapjack ship, cocktail stick with tape for sail and of course a jelly baby for Paul We did not have a game this session, we were going to have snakes and ladders but unfortunately were unable to find one :(
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I crafted up a pool noodle boat racing game with products from Office Depot as part of a sponsored post for Socialstars. #GearLove Keeping the kiddos entertained and not glued to electronics during the summer can be a tough task! Let’s not even mention when they utter the dreaded “I’m bored”. We headed to Office Depot to get un-board […]
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Ahoy, mateys! Hold on to your hats, because it's going to be a wavey ride as we rock the boat with Shipwrecked: Rescued by Jesus VBS 2018!
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!
These "I Spy" bottles are such a fun, budget-friendly craft! Clean out your craft room, dig out lost toys from the bottom of the toy box - they'll come in handy now! Follow Borrowed Blessings for more VBS ideas & resources!
Set sail on the high seas at Grace Community Church! This year I had the privilege of directing Vacation Bible School at church! It was an ...
I get the opportunity to teach you how to make a fake palm tree. I was asked to decorate for our Vacation Bible School, which was to be set in Athens. Therefore, part of the set design was to be palm trees. Luckily, our MOPS group had already made some palm trees for their Hawaiian...Read More
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Check out these super thrifty DIY pool noodle sailboats! These are perfect for day 5 of Shipwrecked VBS Imagination Station! Follow Borrowed Blessings for more ideas and resources.
Mike Spasoff is a tireless servant to this community -- at least for a few months out of the year -- and that's good enough for me. It...
From Lost to Castaway to Survivor to Gilligan’s Island, I’d say our culture has a bit of an obsession with the idea of being stranded on a desert island. I’m personally guilty of being inexplicably fascinated by the (not very possible) possibility of being washed ashore on an uncharted isle and having to fight for survival: […]
Create a safe, quiet indoor stacking game with pool noodles.
Here we are singing our hearts out during our Vacation Bible School! Our theme was Jonah! Here is my class of 5 year olds.....in the belly of the whale! Sweet Anna and one of her sweet friends!
Earlier this year the Church History Museum opened a new interactive children's exhibit, A Book of Mormon Fiesta: A Latin-American Celebrat...
I am excited to share with you a few fun crafts I constructed for my dad’s 60th birthday this past weekend! We surprised my father by hosting a murder mystery d…
Day 1's gizmo is the lost and found flyer. Here are my ideas for gizmo alternatives for day 1 of Shipwrecked VBS! Check back for more posts on gizmo alternatives for the rest of the week, as well as craft options for the full week!
Day 1's gizmo is the lost and found flyer. Here are my ideas for gizmo alternatives for day 1 of Shipwrecked VBS! Check back for more posts on gizmo alternatives for the rest of the week, as well as craft options for the full week!
Make a tiny ship in a bottle with items from around the house.
