Bible times decorations

VBS Church decorations for Marketplace, biblical times, old city, Jerusalem

The theme for this year’s Vacation Bible School was The Jerusalem Marketplace. The gym, chapel, classrooms, and courtyard were decorated to give the children an idea of what kinds of shops and activities could have been part of Jesus’ life in Jerusalem and nearby areas. The kids were able to dress in first century clothing, walk through the marketplace shops, stop to hear about the importance of bread and spices, make a musical instrument, stomp in mud and straw to make bricks, weave a…

Bible Adventures Day 2 - Samaritan well

Bible Bazaar: Carpet tubes and muslin tent, baskets of fake fruit and cloth, pillows, burlap.

Jerusalem City Backdrop

Michelle Barrera let me use lots great pictures of how her church, Teaching Word Faith Center (Fort Worth, TX) decorated for Athens VBS seve...

Photo by Rebecca Johnson If you are looking for a more stone cut/brick wall, you can make one using painted foam blocks (like above) or cardboard boxes. I've even seen a castle wall using pizza boxes here, and you can see a great method for making an arch with boxes or blocks here. At our church we also created blocks like this using sandwhich bags for a "God Sightings" wall one year. You can stuff one bag with paper, then slip that one into another sandwhich bag facing in the opposite…

Bible town set. They used the "stable"

Babylon VBS

inside a Bible times house (session 4)

A house in Nazareth might have been one roomed or have several small rooms opening into a central courtyard. Stairs on the outside of the house led up to the roof, which was used as an outdoor room partly shaded by matting or something like a tent. Larger Image Here Inside, small windows (sometimes covered by lattice or shutters) made for dark rooms. Niches and wooden shelves were used for storage. Most houses had a cistern for water. There would be a wide bench made of mud brick or stone at…

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