SonSurf Beach Bash Vacation Bible School

I was in charge of Vacation Bible School again this year for the Plattsmouth First United Methodist Church. Our theme was SonSurf Beach Bash and was so much fun! We averaged about 60 kids a night! We had music, games, Bible stories, snacks, and crafts each night of VBS. It was a huge success!

We started making decorations and props about a month before VBS and we started decorating the hallways and rooms on the Friday before VBS. It look lots of time to set everything up - THANK YOU to all who helped me!

Christie Haag helped me tremendously with VBS preparations!

Picture of our beach props we used for VBS.

Crafts and supplies ready to go! I had to watch 60 white towels to get ready for tie dying on the 2nd night of VBS. The UMW provided us with money to purchase the towels!

Laura & Anna Glynn helped in the weeks before VBS!

Kristi, Donna, Heather & Kasey helped with setting up the hallways and rooms in the days before VBS started.

Bible Stories Room! Set up to look like we were telling stories around the campfire.

We decorated the hallways with waves and fish!

The stage was set up for our nightly skit and for class pictures!

Registration Table

This was the craft room - all set up for kids!

Another view of the craft room!

The kids played games inside the first couple nights because the heat index was over 100*!

Snacks!

We tie died towels as Mariah helped to tie die Betsy & Maggie's towels because they weren't there this night! They turned out very neat!

Kelby tie dying her towel!

Emma had a good time too!

Green Turtles - Kasey Barr led this group each night!

Blue Sharks - Christie Haag led this group each night

Donna Glynn led the Bible Stories Sunday-Wednesday. We set the room up like a campfire!

Becky Aughenbaugh and Kristi Shotkoski led the crafts each night.

Heather helped JD with his picture frame.

Alden & Caden hard at work!

Kaia, Emily, Samantha, & Stella wait patiently to put sand on their picture frame.

Samantha's Class - Yellow Seashorses - Katie Graves led this group!

Red Crabs - Heather Meisinger led this group!

Snacks! Big D's Dinner! Sharon Smith, Margaret Ann & Jerry Blackwell, & Tina Harvey helped with snacks each night. Doug's mom - Sandy McKnight-made all the snacks for the kids to eat!

Waiting for the next activity! Everyone stood so quietly!

Kyle Graves led the games each night. Andy Rishel, Kiley Wheatley, & Max Hjermstad helped each night!

Doug, Kyle Graves, Laura Glynn, & Anna Glynn did a skit each night of VBS to teach the kids about what we were going to learn about.

Crafts! The kids decorated a beach pail and then we put all their crafts inside the beach

More fun during games!

Caden, Alden, Jayger, & Mikena were all in the same group! Christie had a handful each night!

Pastor Laura led Bible stories on the last night of VBS.

Son Surf VBS

I (Michelle) am the director for Plattsmouth United Methodist Church VBS again this year. Just thought I'd share this so you'd know the dates: July 10-14th from 6-8pm. We are doing a Beach Theme this year: SonSurf Beach Bash! The program will be during church on July 17th @ 10:45am. If anyone would like to volunteer to help, I am always in need of more hands! Send me an email - michelle.mcknight@yahoo.com - if you'd like to help! We will have a website up soon to register kids!

VBS Closing Program

We held our Closing Program for Hero Headquarters VBS on Sunday, July 25th during church. The kids sang the songs they learned and Doug and Anna and Laura acted out each day's mission. I had to give a speech, too. I guess it was a family affair. The kids were really cute singing. Emily & Drew came to church and sang the songs. Samantha and Emily were HILARIOUS!! I told Samantha to sing loudly before church because I knew she knew the words to all the songs. Little did I know that Emily knew all the words too and they had a little singing (more like SHOUTING) contest. Luckily the church crowd thought they were cute too. :) Samantha taught Emily how to snap her fingers right in the middle of a song and Emily taught Samantha how to "throw the bones" (Husker Blackshirt style) instead of make an "O" for the "O" in HERO. :) Those two are quite a pair! After church, we took pictures of all the Moyers and the McKnights at church that day. My cousin Luke and his wife Brandy brought their little boy - Brogan (9 months) - to church to watch Drew & Emily too.

VBS 2010- HERO Headquarters

I was in charge of our church's Vacation Bible School (VBS) this year! My first year of actually being in charge! It was very hard work planning a whole week's worth of fun for kids! But SO rewarding! My journey began in January when I ordered the curriculum of HERO Headquarters, and we had a few long weeks of working on decorations and props and planning in June-July, and finally it all came to an end the week of July 18th! Doug was Maintenance Mac - an everyday super HERO - in our beginning skit every night! Alden liked to tag along with him while he said his lines, so we nicknamed him "mini mac" or "bread stick boy" (one of the other super HERO s in the skit was "Pizza Polly"). The kids seemed to think he was really cute! I had a HUGE support cast this year and it all turned out so well! We averaged about 45 to 50 kids each night and did crafts (that I planned out ahead of time - but did not actually teach the crafts this year) such as super HERO capes, masks, reusable bags (to be a hero for the environment), bracelets, and picture frames to hold a picture of their VBS group. Doug's mom made almost all of the snacks this year ahead of time and they were really cute! One night we had cupcakes that looked like sheep and another night the kids got 2 sugar cookies shaped like a men - one had sprinkles and the other did not - they were to represent Naaman and one of them had leprosy and other did not.