Kingdom Rocks

It’s that time of year again…VBS. So please excuse me while I take this little hiatus from blogging. Not that I am a stickler for blogging on a regular basis but you know.

My BFF and I lead VBS at our church. No matter how stressed out we get, we are truly blessed each year to get to see little kids grow in Lord. This year I did something a little crazy. I posted a picture of our set design on Pinterest and boy has it been a hit. There is a secret to how to get your set to look this nice and here it is…

How to have a fabulous set design at VBS – get someone more creative than yourself and put them in charge. Yes folks, that is the secret. Our children’s minister, Mrs. Sherry has one of the most creative minds that I know. Each year she takes what is given and grows it into a beautiful work of art. This year she enlisted the help of Mr. TJ to help with some little hiccups on the set. You see our church has an awesome praise band (which I am blessed to be apart of, but that is not why its awesome), but as you know, any awesome band has a drum set. Well our drum set comes with a full fledge case that helps with the sound. The draw back, our drum case has become a permanent fixture to our set. So each year we have to incorporate the case, or hide it in some way.

So here is our drum case at Kingdom Rock. TJ did a fantastic job on this. You see the castle walls are card board boxes painted to match the arches that we made. For the sides, we just stacked the boxes on top of each bother duct taping them together as they got taller. On the top of the castle wall, he anchored all of the boxes by cutting out a piece of each box and inserting a small rectangular box through it. I didn’t take a picture of this, but it’s put together much like marshmallows on a stick just before you stick it in a campfire. To really shield the drums, we added two of the portcullis that you make from just plain old duct tape. We then inserted the flags on top and shazam…you have successfully hidden a drum case.

Now here’s where you can take note. Make sure that your flags do not weight a lot. The flags here took a tumble a couple of days later, taking the sides and part of the arches with it. Thankfully some duct tape and zip ties fixed everything, but it was a lesson learned.

Here are some other pictures of our VBS set.