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Check out our Free Father’s Day coloring pages. These make prefect little gifts for any Dad!

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For those you doing VBS this week, what highlights have you had so far? We hope things are going smoothly!

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What craft are you most excited about having the kids complete this summer?

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We know all of you out there are talented at taking a VBS program and making it yours. Or maybe you are planning a completely custom VBS. So, tell us one way you are making a publisher’s curriculum unique to you OR tell us the theme of your custom VBS.

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Ask members of the congregation to donate potted plants (artificial or real), mini fountains, bug nets and rope (to be used as “swinging” vines).

Tree Stumps - use brown paper boxes and draw tree rings on the top of the box.

Tree Top Canopy - use green fabric to hang from the ceiling and walls. Pin stuffed animals like birds, monkeys and more to the fabric to make a wild canopy!

Have the kids make watercolor butterflies during Sunday School. Then hand in a small hallway to create a butterfly room.

Create a waterfall using blue cellophane and brown paper. Add in real or artificial ferns. If you are adventurous, use a baby pool at the bottom and have real water and fish in it.

Twist green and/or brown paper to become vines.

Use netting to make a mosquito bed. Put stuffed animals inside. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mosquito_Netting.jpg for inspiration.

Beautiful Butterflies - decorate walls and more with these artificial butterflies.

Rain Forest Floor - use artificial leaves, brown fabric and fake bugs to create the floor of the rain forest.

Safari Hats

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Starry Night Backdrop

Ask members of the congregation to donate Christmas lights, lava lamps and black sheets or black garbage bags (to cover walls).

Crate a mission control station by asking members of the congregation for old computer key boards, computer monitors, radios, printers, fax machines and chairs.

Out Space Cutouts - Sun, Moon & Stars, Cloud, Earth

Glow Necklaces

Space Asteroids - Use round balls (basketballs, etc.) and cover them with aluminum foil. Place them in hallways and classrooms!

Glow-In-The-Dark Stars

Stellar Space Rooms - Use these Black Light Bulbs to create a stellar space experience with your glow-in-the-dark materials.

Hang black paper to cover the walls. Use florescent paint to paint constellations. Then use black lights to make the paint look like space.

Space Trash - cover trash cans with aluminum foil.

Praise God Wall - cover a wall in black paper. Supply chalk or white crayons and allow kids to write things that they praise God for.

Sounds from Outer Space - real audio recordings from space!

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Yellow Cellophane - Use this to cover windows to create the feeling of a hot desert.

Ask members of the congregation to donate fake or real potted plants and kiddie pools to create an oasis.

Cardboard Pyramid

Create torches by adding orange and yellow tissue paper to the ends of cardboard tubes.

Palm Trees

Hang paper through halls and let kids and families add their own “tomb paintings.”

Desert & Sky Backdrop

The Nile - Use blue colored carpets, blue fabric, construction paper or blue cellophane to lie on the floor to create the Nile River.

Columns - Use square boxes and build them up to your desired height (make sure that they are not going to fall over), wrap brown colored paper around the boxes to get a circular look. Please them outside doors, this will make the kids feel like they are walking into a pyramid.

Hieroglyphics - Use this website to create words in hieroglyphics. Copy them on to larger poster board or paper by either redrawing or painting them, then simply hang them above doors or in rooms. You may also use this to print our kids names in hieroglyphics!

“Life Size” Camel or Mini Stuffed Animal Camels

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