Last week was Vacation Bible School - an exhausting but fun time! The two ladies that "head up" our VBS always do an amazing job - they come up with a homemade program every year with a specific theme. The one writes the scripts for the puppet shows and skits while the other comes up with activities and projects to match the theme. The ladies creatively matched several stories from the Bible with baking/cooking concepts. The 30 kids also made food for 100 for the church picnic at the end of the week. Each night they made casseroles, salads, and desserts to freeze or store for Sunday. It was an insane amount of preparation and work, but I really looked forward to going out to help each night. I'm just glad that VBS isn't two weeks long!
The kids also made cocoa mix, trail mix, and cookies throughout the week to put in care baskets for the elderly, sick and shut-ins.
Some of their other projects included decorating mugs of kitchen utensils which they used each night in cooking, painting some ceramics and putting together mini cookbooks to take home.
2 comments:
That is a really great VBS idea! I am teaching a Life Skills at Home class at our co-op next year and I think I will incorporate that idea of baskets for sick/elderly and we can make up some helathy snack recipes together and then put together baskets. That goes along with many themes: cooking, hopitality, serving others!
Thanks for the sneak peak! Happy Summer!
Sounds like a good time. How sweet for the children to do so much for others. What a good lesson for them. Have a great day, Julie.
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