Posted by: Kathryn Good

Our church is in the middle of our Vacation Bible School! I’m the assistant director this year and will be directing next year, so I’m trying to soak up as much knowledge as I can. Here are some of my take-away tips from Days 1 and 2.

• Encourage older kids to really sing and dance during assembly. Younger kids are watching them and will follow what they do!
• We split the preschoolers (4s and 5s) from the elementary kids this year, and it was a huge success. It really helped decrease the chaos during dismissal. Plus the little kids were really able to get into the singing and dancing. I’m not sure if it was the smaller room or the lack of older kids taking their attention away, but the preschoolers seemed to enjoy themselves much more. I’ll definitely be doing this again next year.
• Make sure you don’t have groups gather too close to the entrance/exit. We had a minor traffic jam on the first day!
• Take lots of photos. Post them the next day so kids can see themselves having fun. Allow parents to take them on the last day as a reminder of the fun had at VBS.
• Say thank you to your volunteers on a daily basis. Ask them if they need anything to help them do their job better.

3 Responses to “Take-away tips from Day 1 and 2”

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   Lori
   July 30th, 2008 at 9:20 am

   Great suggestions. We just had our first night last night, lots of kids, but it went very well. They are doing so good with the music this year!

   I will remember to thank my helpers tonight!

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   Della
   August 2nd, 2008 at 7:45 pm

   We finished our vacation bible school on 07/25/08. We all had a great time. I gave each of the helpers a Thank You card and a note pad with pen to keep with their bibles. A great way to show appreciation.

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   Cheryl
   August 13th, 2008 at 8:27 am

   I just did my 4th year of directing a vbs. I took something I learned from Cub Scouts and thanked the teachers each night. After they would leave, I left a thank you gift in their room so when they got back the next day it was the first thing they saw. Examples would be: Hugs & Kisses (the hershey’s kind) in tissue with a note, Kudo’s bars with a ‘Kudos (thanks) to you’ note, we made angel pins from shells for one night, since our them was surfin’ we used surfboard notepads, pens and bookmarks for another night and finished it off with a shell or fish picture frame. You can find Cub Scout pages on the web that have all sort of suggestions for inexpensive thank yous.

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