2008-06-21
Entry
entryway painted cardboard images projected with overhead and traced with marker then painted and outlined
corner entry
carpet tube tree covered with paperbags. leaves are Christmas paper. Stand is made fron criss crossed hangers
Gate
painted cardboard
Gate
painted cardboard
Corner with donkey
carpet tube tree covered with paperbags. leaves are Christmas paper. Stand is made fron criss crossed hangers. Clip art donkey with thicker legs
Making tree
My oldest son making trees
Synagogue
painted cardboard attached to a butcher paper covered wall around the door
"Guard headquarters"
rocks spray painted on butcher paper covered walls. The shack is made with rock painted cardboard
Sign for guard shack
"to protect Ceasar and serve Rome"
Baskets
We projected this transparency in different sizes and flipped it to make them face a different direction
CornrGuard
Cardboard decorations are easy to store. This guy is four years old. Tape them to the butcher paper with duct tape. Duct tape will tear off paint.
Display cases
We converted the churches display cases to The Jerusalem town event boards
Event board Closeup
Pretend community announcements
Color Contest
We invented a Roman character called Larry the Crime Camel, a funny Roman knock off of McGruff the Crime Dog. We photocopied a picture and had a fake coloring contest and had the kids do these for us during Sunday School. We know Larry isn't in the Bible, but we figured Rome would try to influence the Providences with it's own propoganda, and we also thought it was funny.
Color Contest
More of the kid's coloring
Barabbas Poster
Wanted poster. Fun with Roman numerals, as "M" is 1000. More projected and painted cardboard.
Roman Recruitment Poster
"Join Today or Be Conquered Tomorrow".
Making Community Announcements
My daughter making up announcements to put on the Community mssg boards. My favorite is "Home made rock Candy, Made with real rocks, and some rock by-products".
Finished Board
"Car for sale, Put your family in one Accord call 'Luke" at VVV-L-L". "Anything For a Denarius" w/pull off tabs. "Passover room for rent: Inquire upstairs". "New Rock band 'The Fish Stix' appearing nightly" . . . you get the idea.
Camel Ad
Community Announcement for 3 leg camel for sale. You can use this yourself. . . actually you can use any of 'em if you want. Right click and "save as" somewhere easy to find on your computer, like the desktop.
Work ln Progress
You can see the difference outlining with black marker does by comparing this piece with the next one. Again, painted cardboard.
Final Logo
When using a marker, it is best to use long, continual lines, and try not to stop and start. It feels artsy to make those stop-start outlines, but they end up looking fuzzy and terrible. Smooth, thckly drawn black lines work best, the thickness will depend on the results you want.
Registration Desk
Every year we choose a new theme for our registration desk. This year we chose "Delilah's (not so) Kosher Kuts" salon. We area aware it is a lame idea, but hey, we came up with something. The kids seem to like it.
Barber chair
Hung from the ceiling with fishing line on ceiling hooks. Duct taped to the floor, built to fit around the churche's archetecture. Mirror is aluminum foil, phoney magazine cover "Camel beat" is picture of youth pastor when he was a kid.
Manicure salon
The right backdrop to our registry desk. Use bright colors when you paint stuff. Kids love it. There's a litle mouse in a bedoin hat on the middle far right, too. Include stuff for the adults, like the "50% off ten commandments Bubble bath, that cleans you inside and out", and Esaus' hair tonic from the previous pic. As pretty much all our stuff, painted cardboard on fishing wire to ceiling hooks for big stuff like this that has to free stand.
salon heads
found these in a thrift store
Sign post tree
My youngest son. Fourtunately some places have nails to hang things on. We took down an enormous wreath and replaced it with this tree. In the three weeks before VBS we hung a "help wanted" poster here 9in the middle). This is between the two double doors leading into the sanctuary. If you have an entrance like this, watch to be sure the ushers don't open the doors so wide that they completely covers it up.
Outlining
Again we project a picture, trace it paint it, then my husband outlines it. When oulining use straight continuous lines. Try not to stop and start. It makes the lines look fuzzy
Finished tree
Something this size take 6 th 8 hours from start to finish
HopScotch
We wanted to use Roman num. again
Kids playing
If you have an artist have him draw pictures on a transparency. If not, use a copy machine.All these pictures were copied off of coloring pages
Example of our process
Another of my sons paintng. Almost any skilled person can do this. Se the finished product on the previous page
boy playing soldier
finished pic
KidsPlay
Coloring page
KidsPlay2
Floating tree. Duct tape is kinda permanent so try to get it in the right place the first time.
tall chick
unsupervised children result in 8 foot tall standup women
Spray Paint Door on butcher paper
A good filler but be careful it is easy to have accidents
First Jesus picture
This year we decided to make so cut outs for the kids to put their heads through with their leaders for pictures.They are 3/8x4x8 plywood. over the wood with a solid light color to keep wood grain from showing through. We used light blue because we have a lot of it.
Jesus picture befors outline
This picture really makes my daughter laugh
Samson/delilah CutOut before outline 2
You can really see a difference between this and the next picture
Final Samson/Delilah CutOuts
the stands are made with three pieces of 4x4 one as a base then two smaller ones to slide cutout between
Full view of museum
We put some of the Attractions on posterboard so we could change them
Museum display
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Museum
the hall was too small to get a photo so my husband made tis from about twenty pictures
Museum display 2
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EvesApple
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museum display goliaths shoe
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shoes leaf
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lots wife
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Overview of fake hotel
Jael's rest
Jaels Wndw
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Jaels Rest SiseraSuite
Vague Bible refferences are fun
Jaels rest ad
Cultural refferences are fun too
CamelGuy
Good for fillers
Gathering place
Overveiw of the stage. During VBS the chairs are removed and tents are put up
Same picture
My husband fixed the lighting in this picture so you can see it better
Close up of background
Butcher paper projected clip art and colored with markers.the flash washes out the color. A better picture is next
Even closer close up
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Monkey
Another cultural reference
MonkeyBasket
When you draw thing, keep in mind it has to be cut out with a box knife. Notice the monkey's tail is not pasted the straight line
baskets and tree
these transparencies were flipped to make tree and baskets face a different direction
Tent
hung sheets around the sanctuary put together with safety pins to simulate a tent.
Same picture
It is great to have a talented husband
Tent with tribal flags
The sheets were plain so we safety pinned tribal flags to some of them
Tribal Flags
Projected image then colored with crayons
Soundbooth
Whereever we needed shorter walls we used pillowcases
Dan
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Tent side with flags
When the sheets were too short to reach the floor we pinned torn sheets to the bottom
Well
made with bricks. This is wjere the market place will be set up but not yet
Well 2
the stand ups in the background are projected painted and outlined then nailed to the fence
Barnyard sign
We have live animals. Instructions about animals