My teachers this year did a phenomenal job of making going to class seem like the kids were stepping right into a theme park! The Bible study portion of VBS was done in "Coaster Alley." At the entrance, a sign read- "you must be this tall to ride".
In the main room where the classrooms broke off, we had one big roller coaster set up.
The coaster was constructed from our regular kids chairs, foam pipe insulation taped in an arch over them, cardboard boxes- cut, taped together and covered in paper, and duct tape to hold it all together.
Our Pre-K/Kinder class was too much fun. They entered under a darling awning.
Past the ticket tree
They even had a perfect photo-opp area!
The 1st-2nd grade class was full of thoughtful, adorable details.
On the first day, the teachers took photos of the students and attached their photo in the roller coaster cars! Too cute!
Would you believe our 3rd-4th grade class was decorated by two college guys? They did an awesome job!
And finally, our 5th-6th graders had more fun details in their room!
We also had multi-colored pennant banners made from construction paper and curling ribbon throughout the hallways in addition to balloons and streamers- fun and cheap ways to add pops of color throughout!
What do you use as inspiration for your classrooms?
Ched 'R' Peppers should never come without a pepper! Sad day, Sonic.
My mom makes the best salsa in the world. She uses her garden grown tomatoes and cans it all summer long. Well, I got tired of waiting on this season's crop and made my own using this recipe. It's pretty good. It went well with our enchiladas.
I made my students my favorite enchiladas and they LOVED them. Definitely give them a try if you haven't!
After consuming crazy amounts of enchiladas, we had some live band karaoke at the church. This may have including 1000 Miles by Vanessa Carlton and Only Hope from A Walk to Remember. David was thrilled.
This past week, our church had Kids Bible Camp in parks and home in four separate neighborhoods around Austin. I took pictures and video each night and it was awesome to just observe and capture how God worked through that time!
Also, I worked for hours trying to put a decent edited video together and failed miserably each time. David graciously volunteered to take care of it for me and did a fantastic job!
On Saturday we invited all of the children from Kids Bible Camp to the church for a big celebration service. We had free food, lots of songs, silly skits, puppets, and shared the gospel.
(practicing a skit)
At the very end we surprised all the kids with a giant water balloon fight! It was seriously so fun (even though none of the children listened to me, and they still threw the balloons at my head.) I was so grateful to all of the students who gave up their Saturday morning to come help us fill up 1000 water balloons!
Sadly, yesterday I missed out on spending Father's Day with my daddy and I missed a surprise party for my grandma's 70th birthday. I'm so grateful for video messaging and phones that I was still able to communicate with both of them!
Oh, and I'm definitely sending this card late. It's so perfect! My daddy still tells me I'm his favorite oldest daughter.
