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| Ok, I need some construction help. We are doing Lava Lave this year and I was thinking it would be cool to make a giant sandcastle. I'm thinking about 7ft tall, maybe with a tunnel that the kids can crawl through? If I can't make it strong enough that the kids won't destroy it, I might have to lost the tunnel. Any ideas on how to build it and how to make it look like sand? Also, if anybody has any great ideas, decorating or otherwise, from Lava Lava, I'd appreciate those too.  Thanks! Becky |
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| I did not get a chance to do this Group vbs. There are lots of decorations in the party stores now as its Laua time. For the sand castle, make a base out of wood or cardboard and cover with sandpaper or lay out paper to cover, use spray glue and shake sand over the paper. Then shake off the sand. This might get too heavy. Attached to your form. In stead of being free standing , do this aound the door into Sing and Play. You would need less cardboard and sand or sandpaper and the kids still get the feeling of going into a sand castle.
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| | We have our gym decorated like an island right now for children's church. Some of the highlights include a dock that the kids walk in on with water on both sides (including a shark in the water on one side of the dock & a boat on the other); A bamboo hut with a thath roof and a "sand" beach area complete with tiki torches and umbrellas. For the dock we bought vinyl flooring that looked like wood floor strips (got it from fred's for about $8.00 a box). We cut cardboard and attached the wood strips to the cardboard. I wanted to raise it off the floor with wood pallets but we couldn't find any. We then made round post out of carpet rolls (we cut foam for the tops) and painted them brown. we then ran rope from post to post. For the water we took large (10x10 sheets of cardboard and covered with light blue paper. we put polyfill under the paper and bunched it up to make waves. We then took white paint and made white caps on the waves. Add a shark fin and a boat and you have an awesome dock!! For the bamboo hut, we took foam and used a hot knife to cut to make look like bamboo. we then painted it like bamboo. For the roof I found some brown rolls of paper in the paint section of lowes that is the color of a brown paper sack. We put the paper through a shreader and instant thath for the roof!! We call our shack " Joe's Craft Shack" I also made surf boards out of foam and several palm trees out of carpet rolls and umbrellas. We tried the real sand thing with glue-too messy so we just used more of that brown paper for the sand area. Hope this helps you some. God bless
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| Palm Trees! Lots of 'em!
Carpet Tubes covered with lunch bags....and old umbrella (just the frame, remove the cloth)...and paper leaves....that's all.
Put the carpet tube in a stand (like a patio umbrella stand or similar). Open the bottom of each lunch bag and slide the bag onto the carpet tube (use as many bags as you need to cover the whole carpet tube). Put the umbrella frame in the top and cover with paper leaves (cut from green butcher paper).
Someone put this idea on the board the LLI year and everyone was making them! Really cheap and easy! And a great filler for extra space.
We also made a 7 foot volcano using PVC for the frame work and 3 painter's canvas tarps sewed together hung on the PVC. Very cool!
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| | Galveston, TX has a sandcastle competition every year. You might check their newspaper or contact the chamber of commerce. They could put you in touch with professionals who could give tips. There is also a guy at Pismo Beach, Ca that was building a sandcastle every weekend there. I saw it in the local paper while visiting there and went to check it out. Both of these are awesome. |
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|  Here is one we made for SCUBA from one of those hard plastic play scapes the kids climb on. It is covered in large pieces of cardboard and tan butcher paper. The pillars are from carpet tubes.
He who works his land will have abundant food, but the one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty. Proverbs 28:19
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