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I'm so excited about Rome this year!! Our VBS is coming up in July. I know many of you are finishing up your week in Rome.... so I'm interested in seeing pics of your underground church and other things that you did to make it unique. My Underground church leaders asked me for ideas...... so I'm coming to you! I've gotten so many great ideas from this forum, thank you so much!
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Allison
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| Posted 6/13/2009 8:37:20 AM |
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we are just putting ours together this weekend as VBS begins on Monday...my pastor is a whiz at making caves..LOL...i went to a party store (but you could probably find it online) and bought whats called a "Scene Setter".... (hard to explain..but you can google it) that looks like rockwork...then we are getting large pieces of black plastic and hanging them from the ceiling.i also picked up the electric campfire...
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| Posted 6/18/2009 3:13:14 PM |
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 HERE IS A picture of the door to our cave. Since it is in a rather narrrow hallway, i couldnt get a better pic. This is made from some more styrofoam containers I got from work, cut up and glued on cardboard. I tried to take pictures of the inside, but they just look like black pastic. Which is what it is. Taped to the walls and ceiling. I also used a carpet tube, draped with plastic again, in the center, to provide support and atmosphere. we made the metal lanterns in a shop, and I also made some for the church--about 10. the girls in the cave hand them to kids who seem afraid of the dark, as well as using them for light. I didnt even take the furniture out of that room-- just draped it with plastic too.
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| Posted 6/22/2009 12:38:17 PM |
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We r having r's in july to but we have a church here that just finished up theirs this week ....she took brown paper a crumbled it up and taped to wall...it looks like the rocks r coming out of the walls...but they didnt black out windows r put any black plastic on there either..but still looked neat !!!but i am blacking out windows and useing black plastic on whole thing then add brown paper in some areas to give that cave look [i hope] good luck!!!!!!lynne from texas
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| Posted 6/22/2009 2:30:38 PM |
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| Wow, Kellybeumer, your cave entrance looks enticing. Thanks for sharing the picture. We are toying with an idea I've seen used before at a VBS a long time ago. It was called a story bubble. The VBS director made a huge room-filling balloon out of clear plastic sheeting taped together with clear packing tape. A regular fan at one end kept it filled with air. It created a very calming, special place for the children when we went inside. We are thinking of making the same thing, but painting it to look cave-like. It might be a bit of work with the painting, but we'd be able to fold it up and store it without taking up much space. Is anyone trying out something similar?
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| Posted 6/25/2009 9:23:01 PM |
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| I have one bit of advice for the underground church. Don't make it too dark if possible. We had some very young children who were frightened, and ours was not that dark. We wanted a very small space, so we took very tall ladders and stretched very large canvas drop cloths to the tops of them and went across the width of a room right past the doorway, and this created an area about 20 ft. long and 8 ft wide. On the other side of the canvas - light was coming through windows, but it was filtered enough to be fairly dark. Any windows in the underground were blackened.
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| Posted 6/29/2009 11:09:06 AM |
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| We just hung black plastic from the ceiling and had battery operated votive lights and a few spots on indirect light all around. We had counted on light filtering in from another room but it was a very dark rainy day the first two days. So it was very dark in the underground church but only one young 3 year old was afraid.
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| Posted 7/16/2009 11:14:33 AM |
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| We are all done and would like to share my idea for the underground church. We used a cattle trailer and covered it with black plastic. Then added an air conditioner and misters. The kids loved it!!!!
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| Posted 7/17/2009 11:44:59 AM |
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| the way I did our cave was just take some black plastic sheeting covered the whole classroom,put some logs with orange lights around the wood and just put plain clear lights in the room.For the tunnel I took a cardboard box folded it in half stapled one half to one wall the other half to another wall and put more of the plastic sheeting on top of that for the cave entrance.They thought it looked just like a real cave. GOD BLESS VBS. AMY B.
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| Posted 7/22/2009 11:17:28 PM |
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We also had children who were afraid... I don't think it was the cave though. I think they were scared of Brutus! LOL! We had one boy who refused to go into that room after night I. We had a couple others come out crying on random nights. But...SO MANY of them came out super excited on the last night when Brutus became a Christian. It was very fun to sit outside that door on the last night to hear what they had to say about it! :o)
Carey in SD
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