VBS 2018 Imagination Station Training Manual South Hills June 25 June 29, 2018 Imagination Station Coordinators: Rebecca Thornsberry thethornsberrys@gmail.com phone: 404-384-5664 Becky Breneman BeckyB314@yahoo.com phone: 412-595-7891 Kara Baker welsnkara@gmail.com phone: 412-266-1550
What Is Out Purpose? Our purpose is to help guide children in creating crafts and/or doing experiments in order to enforce the daily Bible Point. Roles and Responsibilities: On VBS Days we expect to see you at 8:30 a.m. in room 141 for our devotion, a review of the day s project, and to set up for the day Daily Schedule: We will be located in rooms 141, 171, 184,185 (186 storage) Different for this year, you will be expected to check in at a Kiosk every morning. (Examples: In Children s Lobby, Rm 180 (Jr. High), and Rm 210 (YAC) Imagination station will see 3 elementary groups and 1 breakout group rotate through our area each day. You will have the same 4 groups each day. Your group will meet on the same round table cloth each day. You will hold up their crew # and welcome them as they enter the room. The area leader/teacher will lead the large group presentation. You will have a bin with supplies to lead them through the day s projects. We will follow the same schedule each day. You will be responsible for making sure you have all of the supplies for your groups and running the group after we are done with the large group presentation. The crew leader and assistant will be there to help, but you are expected to lead them. You will have one 20 minute break each day. During your break you are invited to head to the café for a snack. Please, make sure you report back to your imagination station room to set up for the last groups. Act responsibly! Expectations: This year we are using Realm communication You should have been informed of our Imagination Station work days (room 171). You are expected to attend at least one to help us get organized and prepared for VBS. Monday, June 11 th from 6:30-8:00 pm in Room 171 Monday, June 18 th from 6:30-8:00 pm in Room 171 2 P age
Set-Up Responsibilities: Plan to help set up the day before VBS on Sunday, June 24 th from 12:30-2:30 pm. We have 4 rooms to decorate. Lunch is provided! (Rm 141-142) Clean-Up Responsibilities: Please plan to help clean up at the end of VBS (Friday, June 29 th ). Tips/Other Information: Our theme this year is Shipwrecked, Rescued by Jesus. Wear your VBS t-shirt and something in a Deserted Island/Island Festive way. (No need to buy anything!) 3 P age
Day One: When you re lonely Jesus rescues! Imagination Tool: Duster Question: Imagine you are shipwrecked on a deserted island and have to grow your own food. Would you rather plant a hairy rambutan or sour soursop? Facts: Famous rescues & finds, lighthouses, example of rescue equipment Group Experiment: Super Spinner Jesus loves you and he wants us to be close to him. If we re feeling lost or lonely, Jesus will search for us and bring us safely back to his family. He can always find us! Let s see how good we are at finding things that might get lost! This is a super spinner. When you fold it just so, it looks like this. And when you do this watch what happens. That was super spinny! But now I have to find it and bring it safely back. Now it s your turn to try. Copy 2 sheets per group with a different color for each group in the room. Precut the rectangle out. Kids put names on, cut on the lines, fold, and attach paper clips. Then toss! Breakout will test 2 paperclips to see which one flies better. Crew Gizmo: Testing out Twisty Propellers This is a Twisty Propeller. Doesn t look like much, but watch! It flies away, but I can go find it just like Jesus finds us when we re lonely. Because when you re lonely Jesus rescues! Each child gets a twisty propeller and will fit the hand crank and propeller on the rod. They will push the propeller up with crank and watch it fly. Then they ll go and retrieve it. We can separate the crews in corners of the room or out in halls. Spinners & Propellers can go in a quart bag with their name on and in the crew backpacks to hand out at the end of the day. Breakout Gizmo: Same Twisty Propellers. Have a couple hula hoops to try to get the spinner to land in/shoot through. Super Spinners Twisty Propellers 4 P age
Day Two: When you worry Jesus rescues! Imagination Tool: Bubble Blower Question: You need to block the hot sun on the deserted island. Would you rather make a palm leaf hat or a sun umbrella? Facts: Friction Facts Group Experiment: Friction Freeway and Rice Device We all worry sometimes. Worry can stop us in our tracks and can make life bumpy. Worry makes it hard to go forward. Worry can cause friction. Let s look at another example of friction. Have a section of wood (board) that has a couple different surfaces for a toy car to roll over. See what they learn about friction and the speed of the car. Second friction experiment is the rice device. What do you think will happen if I pull on this pencil? Look, friction holds this pencil in place! Try to get your pencil to hold the bottle. Each group get a bottle filled mostly with rice. Tap bottle to compact the rice. Hold pencil by the eraser and stick it in the bottle with only 1 sticking out. If the pencil doesn t hold, add more rice and compact till the pressure will allow the pencil to lift the bottle. Elementary Crew Experiment: Making Sand Slime Worrying is like friction, it can get us stuck in life. But we have Jesus to help us when we worry. We can talk to him about anything, and he will help us. When you worry Jesus rescues! Friction is what makes things stick together. We are going to make something that uses friction to hold all the ingredients together. Each group will make a batch of sand slime. Then they will each get a ¼ cup to put in their container with their name on top. All containers will go in the paper crew bag for the assistant crew leader to get at the end of the day. Breakout Crew Experiment: Making Sand Slime with additions Breakout will make the same sand slime but will have some fruit slice additions to make some buried treasure in the sand. Breakout additions 5 P age
Day Three: When you struggle Jesus rescues! Imagination Tool: Watery Fabric Question: You can take only one thing from the wrecked ship. Would you take your stuffed friend Fluffy or your box of art supplies? Facts: SOS Facts and Morse Code Here we are, shipwrecked on a deserted island. It s a struggle to be so far away from civilization. We need to get some help! But how? How can we contact other people from this deserted island? What do you think SOS means? A person can use a flashlight to send an SOS signal. Turn the lights off and demonstrate with a flashlight the SOS signal. Crew and Breakout Experiment (Same): SOS isn t the only message that you can send by Morse code. You can actually use the decoder key to make any message you want. Want to try? Make sure you have the decoder key when you are creating your message. You know you d struggle to create a message without the decoder key. In real life, Jesus is our key. Whenever we struggle, Jesus is there to help. Hand out paper plates, and the pony bead bags (presorted and started), along with a Decoder Key. Make sure some examples are on the screen Jesus, Love, Faith, Hope, etc. Kids will make their Decoder Bands. Bands will be put into plastic sandwich bags, name on bag, and can be taken with the crew inside the crew bags. 6 P age
Day Four: When you do wrong Jesus rescues Imagination Tool: Misting bottle Question: You need to find shelter for the night. Would you take your chances in this dark cave or try to build a lean-to? Facts: Air pressure facts (if needed) Two Group Experiments: Jesus love for you is strong that it can wipe away the wrong things you do. Even though it seems impossible, it s true! Kind of like this seemingly impossible demonstration. This egg is too big to fit through the bottle s opening. But I think I can get this egg in the bottle without touching the egg. Sound impossible? Just watch! Light a match on fire or a scrap of paper with a candle lighter and drop in the bottle. Set the egg on top. Watch the egg get sucked into the bottle. The air pressure outside the bottle was stronger and more powerful than the air inside the bottle. In the same way, Jesus love for us is stronger than sin - the wrong things we do. I m so glad that when we do wrong, Jesus rescues! Pierced Potato experiment. Sometimes we feel like failures, and that can hurt! Kind of like this. Pierce potato with straw. With my thumb, I focused the air inside and poor potato! When we focus on our failures, we feel sorry for ourselves. But we don t to have to focus on our failures, Because Jesus rescues. Each crew will have a potato and a straw. They can try to piece the potato on the floor. Crew and Breakout Experiment (Same): Rescue Jellyfish Inside this bottle is my jellyfish that needs rescuing! It just likes to stay at the top and will get dried out, so I put pressure on the bottle to lower the jellyfish! When you make your Rescue Jellyfish, remember that Jesus loves you so much that he was willing to come down from heaven and take the punishment for the wrong things you do. When you do wrong...jesus rescues! Each child will get a bottle of water and a jellyfish. Bowls will be provided for extra water to be dumped out if they don t want to sip some off the top. Choose dye for water if wanted. Names on the lids. Leaders secure lids! If jellyfish becomes waterlogged, dump out water, retrieve jellyfish and dry out. Refill water and put jellyfish in the water again. Place in paper crew bags to get at the end. 7 P age
Day Five: When you re powerless Jesus rescues! Imagination Tool: Pot, turkey baster (or ladle) and confetti Question: What is the favorite thing you ve found on this island so far? Is it a new friend or a stash of sand dollars? Facts: Potential/Kinetic Energy facts, Newton, Newton s Cradle Group Experiment: Newton s Cradle When I think of power, in science, that means energy. There is something called potential energy and something called kinetic energy. Potential energy is energy objects have stored either by virtue of gravity (pulling up on a swing) or of their elasticity (pulling a rubber band apart). Kinetic energy is energy objects have by being in motion. Let go of the swing and let go of the rubber band what happens? Demonstrate with Newton s Cradle the difference between the 2 types of energy. These marbles represent you and me. We want to move and do great things, but we are lacking power to move on our own. Then Jesus comes into our lives. He fills our minds and hearts with his incredible power, and boom! See the marbles move now. The marble gave the others power to move. And Jesus gives us his amazing power when we can t do things on our own. When we re powerless Jesus rescues! Crew Experiment: Whirligigs (No breakout today) This is called a whirligig. It can t do too much on its own. Right? A string and a button. However, when I wind the button and string up, I am giving it energy building tension. When I pull the string, the energy gets transferred in the spinning motion. It s kind of like a sideways yo-yo! Winding up the string, gave it power. And in the same way, Jesus gives us his incredible power and we can do things for his glory! When we feel powerless Jesus rescues. Now it s your turn to make and try to get your whirligig to work! Groups will have a skein of yarn. Kids will pull out and 2-3 feet of yarn and leaders will cut it. Kids will string the button on. Crew leaders can use a plastic yarn needle to help push the yarn through the holes. Tie a knot at the end. Whirl the button around and around building tension in the string. Pull outward and watch the button whirl. This will take some time to practice. Whirligigs can be put into the crew book bag. 8 P age