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| Hi everyone,
Thank you for all of the wonderful ideas! You have certainly made my VBS planning a breeze!
Our original plan to identify our "staff" members was to tie dye shirts (a suggestion from our youth participants). The clock is ticking and I am thinking this is more of an undertaking and expense than I anticipated.
Just wondering if you could share how you identified your VBS volunteers....especially on the first day as we welcome many children and families to our church for the first time!
Thank you in advance!
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| | Julie, Our station leaders wore 3/4 length lab coats that were borrowed. We got them from chemists, doctors and also lab techs. Crew leaders were not differentiated by any special clothing, although they were easy to spot as they had crew signs so that parents could locate them easily. Hope that helps.
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| We purchased slime lime shirts with the PowerLab Fizz iron-on decal for $5 ea. The shirts cost us $4 (from Ink-It in Olney, IL {not an internet supplier}), and then the decals were ~$1. Our volunteers had no problem paying $5 for a t-shirt. This way all of our volunteers will be very easy to locate.
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| All our volunteers wore the white "PowerLab KidsCamp" shirts designed by one of our youth. Our directors and several station leaders wore lab coats as well. However, most of the other adult and youth volunteers were identified as 'staff' by the image/label on their name tag - we used the Chadder in a lab coat image posted by someone on this forum (sorry I don't have time to search and find who did it). The nametags also said "STAFF" along the bottom and were bright yellow - easier to identify from a distance. The crew leaders & assistants wore 2 nametags, one "staff" tag and one "crew" tag (the campers wore nametags with their crew image/color).
God Bless!
~Cassie
"I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life." ~John 8:12 (NIV) |
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| | I bought some neon lime t-shirts (4 for $10) at a crafts store, then had the volunteers iron on the transfers from Group. People got very creative about where they ironed them on their shirts. If that's still too costly, you can also get bandanas in different colors from any crafts store. The bandanas usually cost about a dollar, and you can actually cut them in half on the diagonal and have each volunteer tie it around his/her neck or head. That's what was done to indentify the volunteers at a field day at my son's school last year. As director, I wore the free lime lab coat Group sent with our starter kit. (Thank you!) If you go the lab coat route, only do so if your church has air conditioning. Ours doesn't... (edited to correct price of shirts!) |
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| I just found oversized, pink with yellow polka-dot ties at Dollar Tree.. they look pretty funny. Planning on having the main staff/leaders wear them (with lab coats if it's not too hot). hehe
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| | We have used the same "identification" system for several years...sun visors in different colors. We start with the four colors of our crews, yellow, blue, green, and red, then add other colors for other staff positions. It not only helps us identify crew leaders from across the room or across the yard, but also helps the kids immediately find a leader for their group. Sometimes I have been able to buy foam visors for 25 cents or less at the end-of-summer sale at Joann's, but other times I have cut the visors from poster board and used elastic around the back to hold them on. The junior leaders who are "too cool" to wear the visors on their heads wear them as arm bands. |
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| | We pick yellow as our leader color. We tell every leader to buy their own shirt (tee shirt, tank top...) and we give them the iron on for the front. We tell the kids to wear any other color except yellow. Also the leaders wear a name badge attached to a lanyard (from Oriental Trading Company) and the kids' name tags are clipped on. We reuse the lanyards/name badges for leaders for every special event like the Fall Festival. |
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| | I really don't have a big enough budget to purchase a t-shirt for all of my volunteers and leaders. So this year I bought head boppers from OT on |
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