50 VBS Games, Crafts and Snack Ideas  Vacation Bible School is a time for spiritual growth — and fun! Encourage kids to get into the Bible with these games, crafts and snack ideas that will complement whatever VBS theme. VBS Games - Dare to be a Daniel - If your VBS theme centers effectually existence courageous for God, encourage kids to exist daring like Daniel. Create a maze out of puddle noodles or boxes, and blindfold one child at a time. The other kids volition need to piece of work equally a group to guide the blindfolded child through the maze by giving verbal directions (or you lot can have an adult do information technology). Place adults on the side of the maze to keep the kids from tripping or falling. Kids will larn to trust the voice of their guide.
- Spies - Create an obstacle grade out of cardboard boxes that children can crawl through. Recruit the high school youth group to aid assemble it and decorate the course. The kids can pretend they are Caleb and Joshua going to spy on the promised land. Decorate the concluding box with scenes of green hills, tall vineyards and milk and honey.
- Adventures of David - David goes from shepherd boy to rex with lots of adventures in between. Set upwardly an outside obstruction course with hula hoops, a kiddie puddle, boxes and fifty-fifty other creative objects. The kids take to run over, under and through the unlike obstacles to escape Saul and his ground forces. You can even time the kids individually or divide them into teams to make information technology a race.
- Quick Alter Relay - Relays can aid illustrate 1 Corinthians 9:24, when Paul encourages Christians to run the race that they may obtain the prize. Proceed that bulletin in mind for these next several race ideas. Group a pile of developed clothes past an orange cone or marker. Each child runs to the pile, buttons upwardly a shirt, puts on pants and a hat and whatever other articles of wear you compile. Then they have to run back to the line and have them off equally fast equally they tin can for the next child to put on. That child runs to the cone and back to the line and then takes the apparel off. The first team to race through all the clothes wins. For a "Shipwrecked" or ocean theme, you tin can accept children clothes up in diving gear instead — include flippers, life vest and snorkel mask.
- Run Waiter Run - You will need a ping-pong ball and minor paper plate. Race against each other to the designated turnaround point without the ball falling off and without touching the ball with your hands. The goal is to keep it steady on the plate. If it falls, you must option information technology up and go back to where you dropped information technology to resume the race. You can too do the classic spoon and egg race (outside of class) or if you lot need to be within, use ping-pong balls instead.
- Embankment Ball Relay Race - Carve up kids into two teams, and split up each team into pairs. Have an adult help the outset pair on each team line upward 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 brawl and and so dorsum and so they can manus off the beach ball to the side by side pair. If they drop the beach ball, they have to stop and put it back in between them before they accept off once more. All the while, they are racing the other squad to the terminate line!
- Marble Races - You'll need flat-bottomed sidewalk chalk, pool noodles and marbles. Contestants line up to compete against each other with the goal of knocking downward an upright piece of chalk with their marble by sending it downward a pool noodle ramp. The children can hold the noodle to control the speed and direction that information technology comes out of the ramp. Have four to five kids compete at the aforementioned time, and requite each group several times to try knocking downwardly their chalk before the next grouping starts.
- Coat of Many Colors - Teach the story of Joseph with this game. Split into several teams, and give kids several colors of streamers. Make this a competition past either seeing which team can wrap a teammate up with all of the streamers the quickest or by asking them to arrive look like the person is wearing a colorful coat — and judging whose is the most fashionable.
- ten Commandments Airship Bop - You volition need a Bible, big beach towels and x inflated balloons. The goal is to try and keep all 10 balloons in the air at in one case. Start by having children hold the edge of one end of the towel and stand apart then the towel is taut. So have the kids shake the towel. Encourage them to continue to milkshake it as you add together each balloon, and proper noun each of the commandments every bit you add together the balloons. Go on for xxx seconds later on all the balloons are added, and replace whatsoever balloons that fall. The children will see that information technology is hard to go along all the balloons up all the time, simply like information technology is difficult 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 will have) and cutting out the name of each book individually. Take teams compete to encounter who can get them in the correct club the quickest.
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- Bible Trivia - Using your VBS week theme, compile a listing of questions for a fun trivia-style competition on the concluding 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, incorporate this fun game to burn down some energy. For fruit basket turnover, adapt all the chairs in the room in a circumvolve. All the kids are assigned i of four fruits (for example, pear, banana, apple, orange and then repeat). One time all the kids are assigned a fruit, you yell "pears!" and all the pears jump up and have to find a new chair, simply each time you yell a fruit, a chair is removed. The terminal kid sitting is the winner. Yous can as well vary this game by using animals for a Creation or Noah's ark themed week.
- Bible BINGO - Create a custom BINGO board with Biblical figures and references from your week of VBS. For instance, if it was all about God'due south wonderful creation, include Adam and Eve, the ocean and the stars as spots on the lath. Reward BINGO winners with a special bookmark with a favorite verse. (Processed never hurts either.)
- Squirrel, Squirrel in a Tree - Line children up in an open field or gym, and count them off as "Tree, Tree, Squirrel" and repeat until y'all accept 1 or two extra children. These kids are your squirrels looking for a tree. To brand the trees, ii children face each other hold their easily up 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 5 shape until the signal. 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 too. In that location should now be new actress squirrels who will "race" for a tree next time. Repeat several times, and and then switch the squirrels and the trees. Yous tin as well suit this game to be Zacchaeus in a tree.
- True or False Toss - You could play this game at the end of every day or the finish of your campsite week. Ready ii buckets/bins — 1 labeled "true" and one labeled "false." Let the kids have turns while you read aloud facts from the calendar week. They will endeavor to guess whether the statement is true or simulated by tossing a soft ball into the correct container.
VBS Crafts - In the Beginning - Let children feel the awe and wonder of creating something and remind them of how each painting will be unique — just how God created each of them. Give children a blank 5x7 sail and some acrylic paints, and let them create their own moving-picture show of the creation or anything else you decide. Don't forget the smocks!
- My Creation Book - Accept children on a nature walk, and encourage them to detect all of the miracles of God's creation. Give them time to stop and draw pictures of what they encounter every bit they get. Being outside is expert for kids mentally and physiologically and nature walks help children have the time to observe God's created club. Remind children that if God took that much fourth dimension 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 volition remind them of what they saw and serve as cracking reminders for their parents too!
- Armor of God - Help children create the armor of God from Philippians past making pieces of armor out of cardboard or other materials. Older children can make at least the shield, sword, breastplate and chugalug out of paper-thin, and they can use a paper template for the helmet and shoes. It is well-nigh time efficient and safe to brand templates and cutting them out ahead of time with a box cutter or industrial scissors. Younger children can decorate pre-drawn cardboard or affiche board templates. They can also color a worksheet showing a kid wearing all the armor. Make sure to characterization each piece of armor so the children remember what each slice represents.
- Salt Dough Sand Dollars - For an body of water or "anchored"-themed VBS, use colorless salt dough to have the kids brand sand dollars. Have an instance ready for them, and testify them how to draw designs in the sand dollars using a toothpick.
- Salt Dough Starfish - Y'all can as well take children make a starfish with salt dough as part of an ocean-themed VBS. Help them shape the dough into starfish, and use toothpicks to create designs.
- Sailboats - Cutting 2-inch pieces of pool noodles to brand the base of your sailboat. Place a popsicle stick in in that location for your mast, and and then have 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 assemble the sailboats the next day.
- Jonah and the Whale - For preschool-age children, make Jonah and the whale past using a hot glue gun to attach string to the inside of a blueish plastic loving cup and glue a paper Jonah the other end. Attach a paper whale tail to the bottom of the cup. Children tin can decorate their whales and spotter Jonah be swallowed by the whale and spit back upwards once more.
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- Anchor Footprints - Either on a sail or a wooden board, paint children's feet and make their footprints in a V shape to be the curved part of your anchor. Then paint a cross in the same color coming up from the footprints with a circle on acme. Place their names and the date at the bottom or write out the VBS army camp'south theme. Case: "Sarah is anchored in Christ."
- Picture Frame - Buy inexpensive, paintable picture frames from a arts and crafts store, and let children paint and decorate them with the VBS theme. Offer an assortment of glitter, buttons, pom-poms and other pocket-size items for the children to mucilage on the frame. Accept a picture of each child and/or the entire class in front of a themed VBS backdrop gear up for them to identify in the frame by the end of the calendar week.
- Fingerprint Cross - Trace a cantankerous on pieces of heavy duty cardstock with a primal verse that you are learning. Have acrylic craft paint ready for the children in a diverseness of colors and then 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 take the whole class work together to fingerprint each person'south cross to testify how we make upward the trunk of Christ.
- God So Loved the Earth - Remind children about God's love for the world by making a paper plate Earth. You 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 glue them to the front of 2 corresponding plates or have the kids practise information technology. This way, there will be two sides of the globe the children are creating. Have children pigment the entire plate blue; in one case that dries, they can use cut up green tissue paper to glue downward to the country portion of the plate. To finish, punch holes in the top of the plates and necktie yarn through information technology so the kids can hang it in their rooms. For older children, you can go far nicer past putting it on affiche board or small canvases.
- Dearest Ane Another - The passage 1 John 4:11 can exist incorporated into many VBS themes, and it is always a truth we need to be reminded of: "Dear friends, since God so loved us, we likewise ought to beloved one another." For this craft, create 2 big heart templates (around 10 inches) per child with the center cut out like a picture frame. Write the verse on the front side or permit older children write it themselves. Attach two construction paper figures in the centre of the center over multicolored tissue paper.
- Standing Through the Burn - You tin create a craft to make Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego (Daniel 1-3) in the fiery furnace and/or also relate it to how every bit Christians we will face up trials. James ane:ii-iv and 2 Timothy 1:7 are also great verses to incorporate. Utilise rectangular construction paper to make your frames and have four cut out figures ready for each child and tissue paper in cherry-red, orangish and xanthous. Consider having the 4th effigy larger or with angel wings to represent the angel of the Lord that protected the men from the fire.
- Sand Fine art Cross - You will demand cross 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 centre in the middle of the cross and other designs. Next, they will paint on the craft gum and then milkshake the desired color of sand on top and shake off the excess. Wait a few minutes before starting the next department to let the gum dry a little.
- Jesus, the dandy I AM - Teach children about who Jesus is equally fully God and fully man with a wheel reminder. Yous volition need two pieces of cardstock cut in a circle of about 10 inches in diameter. On i circle, accept a picture of Jesus and the words "I AM" for the children to color, and on the other circle, there volition be about 10 pie shape sections for y'all to write verses where Jesus tells the people who he is. Case: "I am the style, the truth and the life" (John 14:vi). Your tiptop circle volition have a cutting out the same size as the pie shapes then you lot can see i truth at a time. Use a contumely brad to push through the middle of the two circles, and fold downwardly the sides on the dorsum so that the peak circle spins over the bottom circumvolve.
VBS Snacks Noah's Ark - Animal Pairs - Having a Noah'south ark-themed week? Incorporate animal crackers or goldfish — or serve everything in pairs similar the animals.
- Rainbow Bananas - You lot can also contain rainbow themed snacks into a Noah's Ark week. To make rainbow bananas, cut bananas in half (length-wise), and requite each kid half a banana and 4 minor plates with various colors of dry Jell-O pulverization. The children can dip their bananas in the dissimilar 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 v small cups of milk colored with nutrient coloring. Using a clean paintbrush, the children can then paint a rainbow on their toast and consume it!
- Rainbow Jello - Fill clear plastic cups with red Jell-O. Arctic for the designated amount of time on the packet and then repeat with yellow, green and blue for a layered rainbow treat.
Creation - Days of Creation - Allow your kids experience different days of creation with their snack by serving blue Clot-O with Swedish fish in it in clear cups, animal crackers and a few mini marshmallows every bit clouds.
- Bounding main Life - Make banana dolphins in a sea of grapes by cut the bananas in one-half, slicing the stem end in half just a little past the opening to brand a mouth and and then cut optics on each side. Stick your dolphins in articulate cups full of grapes.
Fishing - Fishing Pond - At that place are lots of stories about Jesus and his disciples line-fishing, whether literally or figuratively. Fill little cups full of goldfish. Then make a fishing rod out of a pretzel stick and tie Cherry-red Vines around the pretzel stick equally the line.
- Fish 'n Rods - Requite kids a "Fish 'north Rods" sandwich bag filled with goldfish and pretzel stick "rods."
- Loaves and Fishes - Requite children v saltine crackers and two Swedish fish to correspond the miracle of the loaves and fishes.
- Fish in the Swimming - Frost a cupcake with blue frosting and and then place a pretzel stick and goldfish on superlative. Use a little icing writer to connect the rod to the fish.
- Fish-shaped Sandwiches - Make 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 Cerise Vines around the top for the moveable office of the sling, and then serve each sling abreast five chocolate chip "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 - Butterflies - Create butterflies by filling sandwich bags with ane or two dissimilar types of snacks. If you do ii kinds, split them to unlike sides of the bag; a savory and sweet selection, for example. So, wrap colored pipe cleaner around the middle of each handbag to make butterfly antennae.
- Butterflies Part II - You can too make butterflies out of celery sticks past filling them with peanut butter, using two colored Chiliad&Ms as the eyes and then two pretzel twists as wings. (Simply 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 besides look like the horns, and you can serve them with Rice Krispies Treats to be the walls of Jericho.
Shipwrecked - Tropical Snack Mix - Paul was shipwrecked in the Mediterranean, and in that location are many shipwrecked, tropical-themed VBS options. In this vein, make snack mix cups of Chex cereal, goldfish, pretzels and M&Ms with a paper umbrella sticking out of the elevation.
- Sand Dollar Cookies - Broil saccharide or snickerdoodle cookies with sliced almonds forming the star pattern on top.
Esther - Queen's Crowns - Bake muffins in pretty newspaper cups, then add miniature crowns to the top of the muffins to represent Queen Esther and her bravery. This could also exist used if learning almost Biblical kings.
Holiday Bible School is the perfect time to make lasting memories while laying a foundation of God's word in children's hearts. With these games, crafts and snacks, you're one footstep closer to a great calendar week. Andrea Johnson is a native Texan now living in Charlotte, Due north.C., with her husband and ii daughters. She enjoys running, photography and proficient chocolate.
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