Bible times decorations

This week was Vacation Bible School at our church. This ain’t your Grandma’s VBS. For the past several years our church as been doing an “ancient bible times” theme. This year was Hometown Nazareth. Our fellowship hall was transformed into … Continued

I have made several different types of tents for the kids to actually use while we act out the Bible lesson. This post shows some of them!

The theme for this year’s Vacation Bible School was The Jerusalem Marketplace. The gym, chapel, classrooms, and courtyard were decorated to give the children an idea of what kinds of shops and activities could have been part of Jesus’ life in Jerusalem and nearby areas. The kids were able to dress in first century clothing, walk through the marketplace shops, stop to hear about the importance of bread and spices, make a musical instrument, stomp in mud and straw to make bricks, weave a…

A house in Nazareth might have been one roomed or have several small rooms opening into a central courtyard. Stairs on the outside of the ...

Fabric Tent I made this easy fabric tent so that all the children in my class (22-25) could fit inside while I tell the Bible story....

Bible Bazaar: Carpet tubes and muslin tent, baskets of fake fruit and cloth, pillows, burlap.

DEFINITELY NOT YOUR RUN-OF-THE-MILL PARTY What do you do when you want to celebrate God and Jesus in your child’s birthday but at the same time don’t want it to be too serious, boring, …

Bible times village out of flat cardboard. Used markers to draw the bricks

Hello everyone! I hope your weekend is off to a good start. We have been really busy around here this past week working with the VBS program at my church. I'm sorry to say that this week I did not meet my challenge of a new layout per week. But, I do have some pictures to share that will help explain why I have no layout for this week! My hubby, a good friend and myself have spent the last few months working on the set for this year's VBS program....Hometown Nazareth. We worked with 4 foot…

Michelle Barrera let me use lots great pictures of how her church, Teaching Word Faith Center (Fort Worth, TX) decorated for Athens VBS seve...