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VBS prep - 9/5/2009 10:07:56 PM
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saving-grace
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Just have a quick question...I was wondering for the children's art area, and you doing a specific craft per day or a special craft for the whole week - you know one more like a keepsake? If you are, what are you doing? Any input would be tremendously appreciate.
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RE: VBS prep - 9/6/2009 3:33:23 PM
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We did one craft per day. The problem with doing one craft that takes multiple days is that a child who can only attend one or two days of VBS has nothing finished to take home with him/her.
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RE: VBS prep - 9/8/2009 2:39:35 AM
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Elena1030
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The curriculum we use offers two to three choices for a craft for each day. The team of teachers chooses what craft they will do each day.
At my church, we recruit two sets of crafts teachers for the elementary-school-age kids: one team for grades 1–3 and another team for grades 4–6. Each grade is one class, and the three classes rotate through the stations, which include crafts. All the kids make the same craft each day.
The preschoolers do crafts in their own rooms; they don't rotate through stations.
(Our stations are these: crafts, recreation and snacks, music and missions. We begin each day with the worship rally, go to the first portion of Bible study, rotate through the stations, and then have a closing Bible study.)
The curriculum also offers an option that sets up preteen VBS (called VBX - Vacation Bible Experience) as a self-contained entity --- which means the teachers do everything: Bible study, crafts, music, recreation, snacks, and missions. (preteens = kids who have finished 5th and 6th grades)
I usually teach Bible study - either 5th or 6th grade. Our crafts teachers do a great job choosing which crafts to do, explaining the steps and process, and gathering the supplies. 
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RE: VBS prep - 10/9/2009 12:54:45 AM
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saving-grace
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Thanks for your input.
I was wondering what you might have done as a keepsake craft for the kids...we have about 500-800 kids attend so it needs to be somewhat uniform, there are too many of them for there to be choices...
Have you ever done any wood crafts, painting crafts, etc. So many of the crafts that you can get these days are the foam crafts and they don't last very long.
I was just interested in some thoughts, ideas, etc.
Thanks
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RE: VBS prep - 10/9/2009 8:03:48 AM
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Are you using a particular theme?
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RE: VBS prep - 10/9/2009 8:32:54 PM
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Elena1030
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ORIGINAL: saving-grace
Thanks for your input.
I was wondering what you might have done as a keepsake craft for the kids...we have about 500-800 kids attend so it needs to be somewhat uniform, there are too many of them for there to be choices...
Have you ever done any wood crafts, painting crafts, etc. So many of the crafts that you can get these days are the foam crafts and they don't last very long.
I was just interested in some thoughts, ideas, etc.
Thanks
The kids don't choose what they will do. The teachers choose that. The kids have choices of colors usually, within each craft activity.
We do tend to do a lot of painting crafts. And kids really enjoy them.
This past summer the 4th–6th graders did these crafts:
* colored sand glued on wooden picture frames
* clear glass plates that were painted on the underside with glass-crafting paint
* denim Bible covers painted with slick paint and decorated with craft foam cutouts
* a boomerang made out of two paint stirring sticks and two rubber bands and decorated with colored permanent markers
* a mini bulletin board poster made of a square of cork board & a pad of sticky notes on cardstock and decorated with dots painted on w/ a cotton swab
If your church can afford it, you probably can buy a lot of stuff in bulk... maybe even wholesale. Definitely tax free, since most churches have tax exempt status. You might get some donations from stores. (Or get church members to donate either money or supplies.)
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