Trip to Michael’s!

Looking at foam shapes for the tennis shoe craft

Today my mom and I went to Michael’s for about 30 minutes to go shopping for supplies needed for the crafts. We bought tons of plain white t-shirts for the tie-dying and we bought some paint and other supplies needed for the whale and the tennis shoe crafts. Our total was $224! The sales associate asked what the supplies were for and I mentioned it was for a VBS. After she heard that she gave us a 20% discount on our total order!! My project facilitator said “God’s favor is always a blessing!”

Working on the tennis shoe craft for the Jonah VBS

I cut out 40 tennis shoes for this craft!

Tonight I worked on cutting out my tennis shoes for my craft!! My hands are very sore!! It was all worth it though. I cut out the stensils for the craft and then punched holes in all of the shoes to make way for the laces. I spent an hour and a half just cutting alone!! I hope the kids enjoy this craft! I’m so excited to do crafts like this because it will be a fun and easy way to communicate my point without having to use many words, considering the language barrier. It’ll be a neat way to bond with the kids and learn on what to do for next time.

Working on crafts

Punching holes in the tennis shoes for laces!

Working on crafts

Working on the tennis shoe craft for the Jonah VBS. Cutting out tennis shoes and punching holes.

Tie Dye Kit

I found this tie dye kit at Walmart half price! It has examples of cool ways to tie dye including a heart which will go nicely with the theme for that days VBS…God is a God of compassion and loves us no matter what!

Tie Dye Sample

Here is one of the t-shirts I tie dyed for the Jonah VBS.

Time for tie dye and Lesson 3!

Yesterday (June 26th) I worked on tie-dying some t-shirts as practice for the lesson. I bought four shirts at the store and just started working on different designs to experiment on how I wanted to create them when we’re actually down in Bolivia. I spent about 20 minutes figuring out the designs for the ones I was practicing on. Then my mom helped me out by buying some more dye for the actual trip! Now I’m prepared to create any kind of tie-dyed t-shirt!

I also created Lesson 3 while I worked on my t shirts that talked about God’s compassion. The t shirts are incorporated with the lesson because I’m going to try and tie dye a heart for the object lesson. I spent 30 minutes working on this lesson.

Working on the Whale!

On Monday (June 25th) I worked on my second craft for my second lesson. I used a paper bag and created it to look like a whale! It was a very cute craft, and it really symbolized the main point of my second lesson. I worked on it for about 30 minutes because I had to paint it and include the time it took to dry!

Meeting with Pastor James

This Sunday (June 24th) I met with Pastor James at church for about 15 minutes. I showed him the binder with all the lessons and crafts I have so far. He said he was really impressed and thought that my ideas were off to a good start! He really enjoyed my shoe and fishing pole props and said my lessons had some very good ideas and points in them. It was a good meeting with my facilitator! Also at this meeting I handed out the lyrics to my songs for worship to the rest of my team. Hopefully they’ll take them home and drill the words into their heads!!

Whale craft for lesson 2

Final product of the whale craft. Cutest craft ever!!