Allison Aha!

I wish I could have attended the party, but it was not a Saturday that I had free.

My VBS is the same week as yours! I have not heard from anyone else yet this year. Last year I was fortunate to work with someone who had her VBS the week before mine, so I lent her some things, and she lent me and gave me some things, and there was another church that just gave me a bunch of their stuff. Then the best part, I also found a church that had theirs after mine that I was able to pass my things on to, and then they in turn passed it all on to another church. 

So anyone especially close or in the Chapel Hill area, contact me. I love to share! 

Allison Aha!

I'm disappointed that your VBS is not after mine, so that I can pass on some things to you. I hope I can find someone to share with.

Not sure what to tell you about cheap lab coats or scrubs. I've read some things on the forum about people ordering inexpensive labs coats. You could search "lab coats" and see what was posted about them.

We are not having coats or shirts for the kids this year. However, we have done that in the past. What I have done is on the first day of VBS, I sent home a note on a brightly colored piece of copier paper telling parents that on the third day we will be painting shirts and have your child bring a plain white Tshirt to VBS on that day. Of course we also had extras incase someone forgot or couldn't get to the store, or couldn't afford one. We did that for years, and I never had any parent complain about having to provide a plain Tshirt for their child. Some parents would even go out and buy a package of three shirts and donate the other two (that's how we would end up with extras). Those were usually the parents who were also part of my VBS staff. We would paint shirts on the third day so they could dry overnight and be taken home on the fourth day, and then everyone could wear them on the last day. All in all, it is a very inexpensive way to do shirts.

Allison Aha!

I am located in Turkey, NC which is about an hour East of Wilmington.  I am interested in your Power Lab materials.  I am looking to having our VBS mid-July.  I will be willing to drive to Chapel Hill.  My hubby just took on a new church and they were not even going to have VBS until we came along so you can imagine what the budget is like.  I will gladly accept whatever you may have and are willing to pass along. You can email me at bambiemassey@yahoo.com if you would like.  I am interested to know what kinds of things you will have available.

Serving Him,

Bambie

I'm Bonnie in Garner NC.  I decided to jump in and direct our churches VBS this year along with another director. and we are just now getting started!!  We are way behind but very excited about PL!!  Our VBS is going to be the week of July28-August 1.  Let me know if any of you decide to unload some of your stuff after your VBS!!!  We haven't placed our supplies order yet and we would love to cut costs....

Thanks so much!