Bug Safari VBS
Sure, I could only spare one day for this awesome event for the children (after all, I need to work). I could see the children and the youth had a very good time running this event. There were songs and music, funny entertaining sketches, crafts, story telling and outdoor games. Tell me which child wasn’t excited?
It took a lot of preparation and lots of work organizing it. Kudos to those put in lots of effort (I couldn’t spare as much but did chip my help wherever I could). At the end of the three days event, the children (helpers included) couldn’t believe it was all over and they wanted more! They made new friends, learned new things, and did so many things only us adults gave a sigh of relieve when it was all over. But for the little ones, nope, they want more, more, MORE!
So here’s a quick video highlighting the various fun, entertaining and educating activities.
Jhunhoe’s skits on day 2 and day 3 of VBS
Comment by FKW — 26-November-2007 @ 9:20 am
Heya do you know if your church still has the chadder video for bug safari and would be willing to sell it or loan it to me?
Comment by Deb Haschel — 9-September-2009 @ 9:31 pm
Thank you for blogging aboout your VBS! We are a small church doing Bug Safari for the first time. I am missing quite a lot of information from the tin of stuff that was left in a shed. I need information on the daily games and snacks. Do you have or remember any of these?
Thanks!
Blessings!
Rev. Linette Ballew
Colorado
Comment by Rev. Linette Ballew — 27-January-2010 @ 1:51 am
Dear Rev. Linette Ballew,
Bug Safari, the preparation or rather the decoration took up the most effort! I was only part of the team and my job was to take pictures and videos (apart from the decoration which all of us rather not do again because of the amount of work to cut out those little insects!)
Normally when you buy the VBS program the pack they come with games and snacks suggestion that will tie in with the theme of VBS. You need not follow it because of difficulty with the location or buying the items. For example our recent Power Lab VBS we decided not to do some of the lab experiments because it will mess up the church hall and nobody wants to clean up after the mess. So what you need to do is to get everyone involved and have a brainstorming session and come up with ideas that will fit into the theme that is still within budget (ie cheap), that won’t mess up the church and still let the children have fun (and of course learn something out of it) and still convey the message of the theme.
By the way, you will need a lot of helpers to control the children as they have so much energy!
Good luck!
Jan.
Comment by Jan — 28-January-2010 @ 11:56 am