50 VBS Games, Crafts and Snack Ideas  Vacation Bible Schoolhouse is a fourth dimension for spiritual growth — and fun! Encourage kids to get into the Bible with these games, crafts and snack ideas that will complement any VBS theme. VBS Games - Cartel to be a Daniel - If your VBS theme centers around being courageous for God, encourage kids to be daring like Daniel. Create a maze out of pool noodles or boxes, and blindfold 1 kid at a time. The other kids will need to work as a grouping to guide the blindfolded kid through the maze by giving verbal directions (or y'all can have an adult practise it). Place adults on the side of the maze to keep the kids from tripping or falling. Kids will learn to trust the voice of their guide.
- Spies - Create an obstacle course out of cardboard boxes that children can crawl through. Recruit the high school youth group to aid get together it and decorate the course. The kids can pretend they are Caleb and Joshua going to spy on the promised land. Decorate the terminal box with scenes of green hills, tall vineyards and milk and honey.
- Adventures of David - David goes from shepherd boy to king with lots of adventures in between. Gear up an outside obstacle course with hula hoops, a kiddie puddle, boxes and even other artistic objects. The kids have to run over, under and through the dissimilar obstacles to escape Saul and his army. Y'all can fifty-fifty fourth dimension the kids individually or divide them into teams to make it a race.
- Quick Change Relay - Relays can help illustrate 1 Corinthians 9:24, when Paul encourages Christians to run the race that they may obtain the prize. Go on that bulletin in heed for these side by side several race ideas. Group a pile of adult clothes by an orange cone or marker. Each child runs to the pile, buttons up a shirt, puts on pants and a hat and whatever other manufactures of habiliment you lot compile. And then they have to run back to the line and take them off as fast as they can for the next child to put on. That child runs to the cone and back to the line and then takes the wearing apparel off. The get-go team to race through all the clothes wins. For a "Shipwrecked" or bounding main theme, you can have children dress up in diving gear instead — include flippers, life vest and snorkel mask.
- Run Waiter Run - Y'all will need a ping-pong ball and small paper plate. Race against each other to the designated turnaround betoken without the ball falling off and without touching the ball with your hands. The goal is to keep information technology steady on the plate. If information technology falls, yous must choice it upwards and go back to where you lot dropped it to resume the race. Yous tin also do the classic spoon and egg race (exterior of course) or if yous need to be inside, use ping-pong assurance instead.
- Beach Ball Relay Race - Carve up kids into two teams, and separate each team into pairs. Have an developed aid the first pair on each squad line up back to back with a beach ball in between them. That pair links arms and has to work together to run to the designated point without dropping the embankment ball and so back and then they can manus off the beach ball to the next pair. If they driblet the beach ball, they have to stop and put it back in betwixt them before they accept off once more. All the while, they are racing the other team to the stop line!
- Marble Races - You lot'll demand apartment-bottomed sidewalk chalk, pool noodles and marbles. Contestants line upwards to compete against each other with the goal of knocking down an upright slice of chalk with their marble by sending information technology downward a pool noodle ramp. The children can hold the noodle to control the speed and direction that it comes out of the ramp. Have iv to five kids compete at the same fourth dimension, and give each grouping several times to try knocking downwards their chalk before the next group starts.
- Coat of Many Colors - Teach the story of Joseph with this game. Split into several teams, and give kids several colors of streamers. Brand this a contest by either seeing which team can wrap a teammate upwards with all of the streamers the quickest or by asking them to make it expect similar the person is wearing a colorful coat — and judging whose is the most stylish.
- x Commandments Balloon Bop - Yous will need a Bible, big beach towels and 10 inflated balloons. The goal is to effort and keep all ten balloons in the air at one time. Start past having children agree the border of i terminate of the towel and stand apart so the towel is taut. So have the kids shake the towel. Encourage them to keep to shake it as y'all add each balloon, and name each of the commandments equally you add the balloons. Proceed for thirty seconds later on all the balloons are added, and supersede whatever balloons that fall. The children volition come across that it is hard to go along all the balloons up all the time, just like it is hard to keep all the commandments all the time, which is why we need Jesus.
- Books of the Bible - Impress out several sets of the books of the Bible (depending on how many teams you volition take) and cut out the name of each book individually. Take teams compete to see who can become them in the correct society the quickest.
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- Bible Trivia - Using your VBS week theme, compile a list of questions for a fun trivia-style contest on the final day of camp so students can demonstrate what they've learned. Genius Tip: Demand some inspiration? Cheque out these helpful Bible trivia questions.
- Fruit Basket Turnover - If you're talking about the Fruit of the Spirit during your VBS, comprise this fun game to fire some energy. For fruit handbasket turnover, conform all the chairs in the room in a circumvolve. All the kids are assigned one of 4 fruits (for example, pear, banana, apple tree, orange and and so repeat). In one case all the kids are assigned a fruit, yous yell "pears!" and all the pears jump up and have to find a new chair, just each time you lot yell a fruit, a chair is removed. The last kid sitting is the winner. You can also vary this game by using animals for a Creation or Noah'due south ark themed calendar week.
- Bible BINGO - Create a custom BINGO board with Biblical figures and references from your calendar week of VBS. For instance, if information technology was all almost God's wonderful creation, include Adam and Eve, the ocean and the stars as spots on the board. Reward BINGO winners with a special bookmark with a favorite verse. (Candy never hurts either.)
- Squirrel, Squirrel in a Tree - Line children up in an open field or gym, and count them off every bit "Tree, Tree, Squirrel" and repeat until you lot have one or 2 actress children. These kids are your squirrels looking for a tree. To make the trees, two children confront each other hold their easily upwardly in an A shape to form a "tree." When each squirrel gets in a tree, the tree will enclose its arms around the squirrel in a V shape until the betoken. When the leader blows a whistle or yells, "squirrel, squirrel in a tree!" all the squirrels take to run to a new tree with the extra squirrels finding a tree as well. There should at present be new extra squirrels who volition "race" for a tree next fourth dimension. Repeat several times, and then switch the squirrels and the copse. You tin can also adjust this game to be Zacchaeus in a tree.
- True or False Toss - Yous could play this game at the terminate of every twenty-four hours or the end of your military camp week. Prepare ii buckets/bins — ane labeled "truthful" and i labeled "false." Permit the kids take turns while you read aloud facts from the week. They will effort to guess whether the statement is true or simulated by tossing a soft brawl into the right container.
VBS Crafts - In the Beginning - Let children experience the awe and wonder of creating something and remind them of how each painting will be unique — simply how God created each of them. Give children a blank 5x7 sail and some acrylic paints, and let them create their ain picture of the creation or anything else you decide. Don't forget the smocks!
- My Creation Book - Take children on a nature walk, and encourage them to observe all of the miracles of God's creation. Requite them time to end and draw pictures of what they run across as they become. Being outside is expert for kids mentally and physiologically and nature walks help children take the fourth dimension to notice God's created lodge. Remind children that if God took that much time and intentionality with a bird or butterfly, how much more does he care for his children? At the end of the activity, they should have a book full of pictures that will remind them of what they saw and serve as peachy reminders for their parents besides!
- Armor of God - Help children create the armor of God from Philippians by making pieces of armor out of cardboard or other materials. Older children can make at to the lowest degree the shield, sword, breastplate and chugalug out of cardboard, and they can employ a paper template for the helmet and shoes. It is near time efficient and safe to make templates and cut them out ahead of time with a box cutter or industrial scissors. Younger children can decorate pre-drawn cardboard or poster board templates. They can besides color a worksheet showing a child wearing all the armor. Make certain to label each piece of armor so the children remember what each slice represents.
- Salt Dough Sand Dollars - For an ocean or "anchored"-themed VBS, employ colorless salt dough to have the kids make sand dollars. Have an example ready for them, and evidence them how to draw designs in the sand dollars using a toothpick.
- Salt Dough Starfish - You tin can besides take children make a starfish with salt dough as part of an ocean-themed VBS. Help them shape the dough into starfish, and utilize toothpicks to create designs.
- Sailboats - Cut two-inch pieces of pool noodles to make the base of your sailboat. Place a popsicle stick in there for your mast, then take pre-laminated triangles with your VBS theme printed for the sail. The other option is to have the children decorate the sails, laminate them that afternoon and get together the sailboats the next day.
- Jonah and the Whale - For preschool-historic period children, brand Jonah and the whale by using a hot gum gun to attach string to the inside of a blueish plastic cup and glue a paper Jonah the other terminate. Attach a paper whale tail to the bottom of the loving cup. Children can decorate their whales and watch Jonah be swallowed by the whale and spit support again.
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- Anchor Footprints - Either on a sail or a wooden lath, paint children'southward feet and make their footprints in a V shape to be the curved function of your anchor. Then paint a cantankerous in the same color coming upwardly from the footprints with a circumvolve on top. Place their names and the date at the bottom or write out the VBS camp's theme. Example: "Sarah is anchored in Christ."
- Moving picture Frame - Buy inexpensive, paintable picture frames from a craft store, and permit children paint and decorate them with the VBS theme. Offering an array of glitter, buttons, pom-poms and other minor items for the children to mucilage on the frame. Have a picture of each child and/or the entire class in front end of a themed VBS properties ready for them to place in the frame by the stop of the calendar week.
- Fingerprint Cross - Trace a cross on pieces of heavy duty cardstock with a key verse that you are learning. Have acrylic arts and crafts pigment ready for the children in a multifariousness of colors so they tin fingerprint decorate their crosses. This will remind them that Christ died for them, and that he knows and created every detail of their being, downward to their fingerprints. An alternative for older children is to accept the whole class work together to fingerprint each person's cross to prove how nosotros make upward the body of Christ.
- God So Loved the Earth - Remind children about God'south love for the world by making a paper plate Earth. You lot will need to cutting out outlines of the globe, both a Due north and South America side and a Europe/Asia/Africa side, and either gum them to the front of two respective plates or have the kids exercise it. This way, there will exist two sides of the earth the children are creating. Take children paint the entire plate blueish; once that dries, they tin can utilise cutting upward green tissue paper to glue down to the land portion of the plate. To finish, punch holes in the peak of the plates and tie yarn through it then the kids tin can hang information technology in their rooms. For older children, you can brand it nicer past putting it on poster board or small canvases.
- Beloved One Some other - The passage ane John 4:11 tin can be incorporated into many VBS themes, and information technology is always a truth we need to be reminded of: "Love friends, since God so loved us, nosotros also ought to dear ane another." For this craft, create ii large heart templates (effectually 10 inches) per child with the centre cut out like a picture frame. Write the poetry on the forepart side or let older children write it themselves. Adhere two structure paper figures in the center of the heart over multicolored tissue paper.
- Continuing Through the Burn - Y'all can create a arts and crafts to make Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego (Daniel 1-3) in the fiery furnace and/or also chronicle it to how as Christians we will face up trials. James 1:2-iv and 2 Timothy one:vii are also great verses to incorporate. Utilize rectangular construction paper to make your frames and have four cut out figures ready for each child and tissue paper in reddish, orange and yellow. Consider having the quaternary figure larger or with angel wings to represent the affections of the Lord that protected the men from the fire.
- Sand Art Cross - You will need cantankerous templates from heavy cardstock, colored sand, glue, a paintbrush and a large tray or tablecloth underneath children to catch the sand. Kids can depict a center in the center of the cross and other designs. Side by side, they will paint on the craft mucilage and so shake the desired color of sand on tiptop and shake off the excess. Wait a few minutes earlier starting the adjacent section to let the glue dry a little.
- Jesus, the great I AM - Teach children well-nigh who Jesus is as fully God and fully human with a bike reminder. You will demand two pieces of cardstock cutting in a circle of virtually 10 inches in diameter. On i circumvolve, have a picture of Jesus and the words "I AM" for the children to color, and on the other circumvolve, in that location will exist most 10 pie shape sections for y'all to write verses where Jesus tells the people who he is. Example: "I am the way, the truth and the life" (John 14:half-dozen). Your superlative circle volition have a cut out the aforementioned size as the pie shapes so you can encounter i truth at a fourth dimension. Utilize a contumely brad to push through the centre of the two circles, and fold down the sides on the back so that the height circle spins over the bottom circle.
VBS Snacks Noah's Ark - Animal Pairs - Having a Noah'southward ark-themed week? Comprise fauna crackers or goldfish — or serve everything in pairs like the animals.
- Rainbow Bananas - You can likewise contain rainbow themed snacks into a Noah's Ark week. To brand rainbow bananas, cut bananas in one-half (length-wise), and requite each child one-half a banana and four small plates with various colors of dry Jell-O pulverisation. The children can dip their bananas in the different colored Jell-O powder to make rainbow bananas.
- Rainbow Toast - Toast white bread and give a plated piece to each child. They will also receive 4 to five modest cups of milk colored with food coloring. Using a clean paintbrush, the children can then paint a rainbow on their toast and consume it!
- Rainbow Jello - Fill up clear plastic cups with ruby Jell-O. Arctic for the designated amount of time on the package and then repeat with yellow, green and blue for a layered rainbow treat.
Creation - Days of Cosmos - Allow your kids experience different days of cosmos with their snack by serving blueish Jell-O with Swedish fish in information technology in articulate cups, animal crackers and a few mini marshmallows as clouds.
- Bounding main Life - Make assistant dolphins in a sea of grapes by cutting the bananas in half, slicing the stem end in half just a little past the opening to make a mouth and then cutting eyes on each side. Stick your dolphins in clear cups full of grapes.
Angling - Fishing Pond - There are lots of stories about Jesus and his disciples fishing, whether literally or figuratively. Fill little cups total of goldfish. Then make a fishing rod out of a pretzel stick and tie Red Vines around the pretzel stick equally the line.
- Fish 'n Rods - Requite kids a "Fish 'n Rods" sandwich bag filled with goldfish and pretzel stick "rods."
- Loaves and Fishes - Give children 5 saltine crackers and ii Swedish fish to represent the phenomenon of the loaves and fishes.
- Fish in the Swimming - Frost a cupcake with blueish frosting and so place a pretzel stick and goldfish on top. Use a little icing author to connect the rod to the fish.
- Fish-shaped Sandwiches - Brand mini "fish" sandwiches using a fish-shaped cookie cutter.
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David - David and Goliath - Create an edible sling out of pretzel sticks by making a Y shape and using melted chocolate to meld together the sticks. Tie Cherry Vines around the elevation for the moveable part of the sling, and then serve each sling beside five chocolate scrap "stones."
- David the Shepherd Boy - Make sheep out of jumbo marshmallows using pretzel sticks for legs and a pretzel stick for their faces.
New Creation - Collywobbles - Create butterflies by filling sandwich bags with one or two different types of snacks. If you lot do two kinds, split up them to different sides of the bag; a savory and sweet choice, for example. So, wrap colored piping cleaner around the centre of each bag to make butterfly antennae.
- Butterflies Part II - You can as well make butterflies out of celery sticks by filling them with peanut butter, using ii colored M&Ms as the eyes and and then two pretzel twists as wings. (But be mindful of allergies.)
Joshua and Jericho - Horns - Make the horns that were blown to initiate the boxing of Jericho by filling waffle cones with mixed fruit.
- Walls and Horns - Bugle snack crackers likewise look like the horns, and y'all tin serve them with Rice Krispies Treats to be the walls of Jericho.
Shipwrecked - Tropical Snack Mix - Paul was shipwrecked in the Mediterranean, and there are many shipwrecked, tropical-themed VBS options. In this vein, brand snack mix cups of Chex cereal, goldfish, pretzels and M&Ms with a paper umbrella sticking out of the peak.
- Sand Dollar Cookies - Broil carbohydrate or snickerdoodle cookies with sliced almonds forming the star pattern on top.
Esther - Queen's Crowns - Broil muffins in pretty newspaper cups, and then add together miniature crowns to the top of the muffins to represent Queen Esther and her bravery. This could likewise be used if learning near Biblical kings.
Vacation Bible School is the perfect time to make lasting memories while laying a foundation of God's give-and-take in children's hearts. With these games, crafts and snacks, you lot're 1 step closer to a groovy week. Andrea Johnson is a native Texan at present living in Charlotte, Due north.C., with her husband and 2 daughters. She enjoys running, photography and good chocolate.
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