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Send Us Your Great Ideas
and Join The Saint Circle . . .
Sometimes, planning a VBS can seem like
a complicated maze. We don’t think it should be. Even though we
offer several suggestions for planning your VBS in our VBS Kit,
we like to get feedback from all of you out in the field. Our
DREs, VBS Coordinators and Volunteers have fantastic ideas for
implementing our Totally Catholic VBS Programs! We want to share
their ideas with you to help with planning your own Growing with
the Saints VBS. Share a great idea! Please send it to Susan
Lawson:
ideas@growingwiththesaints.com
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Craft Ideas:
Crafts
All Programs
Helping Hands Rainbow
We traced the kid’s hands in crafts on
Monday and made a rainbow of helping hands on the wall leading to a pot
off gold (black cauldron) which we accepted for donations to help raise
money for Nigeria village school tuition.
Cathy Roach, DRE & Jennie Lane, VBS Coordinator
Our Note:
While ideal for St. Patrick and the Holy
Trinity VBS, this idea can be used for the Assorted Saints and the
Parachute with the Angels Programs. Change the black cauldron at the end
of the rainbow to a “donation suitcase” with “around the world” travel
stickers on it for Assorted Saints or use a big box wrapped in cotton
batting to look like a Pennies from Heaven cloud for the Angels VBS.
From all of us at Growing with the Saints, Inc.
Crafts
St. Patrick and the Holy Trinity
Cozy Tube Snake Idea
Change the snake craft to a tube sock snake
which all the grades can make (cut tongues for the snake out of red
felt, sew or glue them onto the toe part of the sock - done beforehand
by an adult) Have children decorate their sock with permanent markers,
fill with 1 cup of rice and have adult sew the end. Tell the children
that their parents can warm it up in the microwave so they can put it
around their neck as a heat wrap.
Eugenia Martinez, Religious Ed. Coordinator
Crafts
St. Patrick and the Holy Trinity
"Million Man" Mitre March
We loved the idea of the Mitre so much that
we had all the grades make one.
Eugenia Martinez, Religious Ed. Coordinator |
