Thanks for the great idea. I hadn't tried to put the beads on the bandana yet (our VBS is in Aug), but was on my "to do" list.
Last night at church, my craft lady and I got together and I told her of the problems everyone was having and told her of your idea with the Bolas (I didn't know what to call them last night --got some funny suggestions from others). We decided to do this instead of cutting and threading beads on the bandana themselves. We also decided to use the salvation colors for the beads.
For the preschoolers though, we decided beading was too difficult, so we ordered plain with bandanas and prestamped them with the buddy stamps. Then we are having the kids color them with fabric markers and/or fabric crayons.