vbs--day 5 (God is in Charge!)

picture for day #5! everyone at snacks

friday was the last day of vbs!! the Bible story was about Naman who got leprosy. with the preschoolers, we played dot sticker tag!! it was really cute and a lot of fun!! :) i think all the kids enjoyed playing it! basically, if you don't know how to play, you run around with dot stickers and "tag" people by sticking the stickers on them. it was a lot of fun!! somehow, with all three groups, everyone ended up chasing me at the end of the game...hmmm...maybe jaina had something to do with that... :) anyways, it was a lot of fun, and i had an awesome time for the whole week, and hopefully we showed the kids a little bit of Jesus!! :) thanks, jaina, for helping me, you were awesome!! :)

vbs--day 4 (God is Awesome!)

picture for day #4! the problem bubbles (dum dum duuuuuum)

today's Bible story was when Jesus died and rose from the dead! so, of course, we had to play a game with something that rose into the air. so, we played with balloons and bubbles!! it was an o.k. day, nothing spectacular happened, except that when i got to the church brianna told me jaina wasn't going to be there. :P so i had to do games by myself. it wasn't too bad, i guess... but dumb me, i totally forgot to take the seals off the bubbles, so there i was sitting on the picnic table, trying to get 24 containers of bubbles open and read for use in 10 minutes at max. i got past the clear seal that keeps the cover on, but when i got to the silver seal that's over the actual top of the container, i ran into a little bit of trouble. you'd think it would just peal off, right?! wrong!! they were so annoying!! it was like they were stuck to the container with super glue!! they would not just simply peel off, like they're supposed to (like anything could be made simple for me...i have a tendency to complicate things...). so, what i finally ended up doing (i think i had 2 or 3 done by the time the first group of kids came. :P) was i used my mom's scissors and cut off the seals, and when the kids came, i sent their crew leader and ryan to work cutting off all the other seals while we played with balloons. (thanks so much mr. b and ryan!!) (oh and btw, before all this, mr. scott and mr. dan helped me blow up 15 balloons, because i can not blow up balloons. ...but then i figured out that i can... thanks for all your help, though!!) so, we played "try to keep the balloons up in the air" with all the crews and only had time to play with the bubbles with the first and last crews!! i was pretty tired after last night...lol! and tonight's the last night!! i'm happy and sad about that...

vbs--day 3 (God is Strong!)

picture for day #3! some of the preschool kids making a tower!

yesterday's Bible Point was God Is Strong (the 1st one was God Is Real and the 2nd one was God Is With Us). The Bible story was the story of the Israelites and the walls of Jericho!! So, of course we played a game with knocking down stuff involved!! :) Preschoolers love to knock things down!! :) so, the game we played was, we had 2 piles of cardboard blocks, and split the kids up so that half of them were at one pile and the others were at the other pile. when we said "go", the kids had to take a block, hop to the middle, and put the blocks down and start building a wall!! that was really cute to watch them try to build a wall without it falling down!! :) then once they were done, we marched around it and blew our trumpets, and when I (or Jaina) said "GOD IS STRONG!!" they all got to knock over the wall!! It was really fun, and I think all the kids enjoyed it!! :)

vbs--day 2 (God is With Us!)

picture for day #2! Elias doing games with the older kids

last night's Bible story was when the Isrealites crossed the Jordan River. So, for games, we had a tarp, and pieces of brown and black paper taped on it for 'stones'. the kids had a box, and they walked across the 'river' with the box, gave the box to the person on the other side, and said "God is with us!!" and the other person replyed with "WAA-HOO!!". i had no idea how the kids would like it, but they seemed to find it fun! the first group was crazy, they wouldn't stay in one place, and were running around, so that game didn't last too long (they were all boys, btw...). so, we just kinda played "tag" (or run randomly around!) until it was time for them to go! the next group had about 10 kids in it, so someone was always somewhere they weren't supposed to be!! the game lasted a little while, and then we played simon says to get a little of their energy out!! lol!! the last group was the best!! there were 4 girls in the group, and they did the game perfectly!! they were really behaved, and they actually said "God is with us!!" and "Waa-Hoo!!" when they were supposed to (all the other kids just kinda went across and handed the box to the next kid! oh well!)!! we played the game for a while, and then we played duck duck goose. that was a lot of fun, too!! preschool games is so much fun!! :)

vbs--day 1 (God is Real!)

picture for day #1!! jaina and mr. happy tree (i think that's what we called him... :/)

last night, our church had the first night of vbs (vacation Bible school!)!! :D yeay!! it is a lot of fun!! jaina and i are doing preschool games!! (jaina is awesome!) it is a lot of fun (except for the fact that we had to move inside because it started to rain a little. hopefully today will be really nice!). all the kids are so cute! last night we played hide and seek and tug of war. i wasn't sure how either of those would go, but they both went great!! when we played hide and seek (or 'find the spies' as it was supposed to be called. the Bible story for yesterday was on Rahab and the Israelite spies.), the kids would come up to me, "i want to be a spy next!!" or "i want to be a soldier next!!" (the spies hid and the soldiers went to find them!). they were all really cute!! :) and for tug of war, they all were really cute, and determined!! O_O i didn't expect them to be pulling for as long as they did!! i wasn't sure about doing it, because when we moved inside, the room we did it in just had carpet over concrete, so it wouldn't be too good if anyone fell. but, thank God, no one god hurt!! it was a really fun night!! we get to go back again tonight for more insanity!! :) yeay!!