It's summer, so that means Vacation Bible School. Our church used to do much more elaborate setups than we have in the past couple of years. These pictures are from the last year of big decorations. Our director at the time really enjoyed planning VBS sets. It was a lot of fun but also a lot of hard work. Sadly, he passed away suddenly last year.
The theme for this particular year was Colossal Coaster World. My husband built the roller coaster car. I put the stripe down the side using vinyl and cut the letters on one of my cutting machines. My nephew made the cardboard cutout people. The swing ride was borrowed from another church.
I made the carousel from cardboard. Using a projector, I enlarged a carousel horse from purchased clip art and traced, cut out and painted three. I cut the trim around the top from poster board using my Cricut machine and added some signs given to us by another church. The poles are painted PVC pipe.
The ducks in the shooting duck game were cut on my Cricut from "A Child's Year" cartridge.
Sometimes you have to get creative to work with what you have. This was the room where the children made their crafts. The room had an unused chalkboard which I turned into a ticket booth. This room also has footprints painted on the walls, so we cut out balloons to cover them on one wall and my daughter cut out a paint palette and paint splotches to cover some of them on the other wall. We left some footprints to appear someone stepped in the paint.
One of the men in the church did these booths from cardboard. I thought they turned out cute. That's Paul (formerly Saul) working the popcorn booth. ;-)
Here is an overall view of the sanctuary.
This was one of the crafts the children made. I designed them in Cricut Craft Room combining some glasses from the "3 Birds - Life's a Party" cartridge and a roller coaster from the "Carousel" cartridge. I also cut a slit so the coaster car could move along the tracks. It is attached with brad "wheels". The children decorated the glasses as their craft that day. I think they enjoyed making them and wearing them.
(See post about VBS Colossal Coaster World bulletin board HERE )
