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Vacation Bible School
(VBS) and
Other craft projects for
Holy Cross Episcopal Church
Castro Valley, California
2004
VBS--Welcome to Hogwarts:
The
Gospel According to Harry Potter.
Last year’s VBS, Welcome to Hogwarts, included making 49 sets
of “wizard” Chessmen! That’s 1,658 individual chess pieces!
2005
VBS--Star Wars: Knights of God's Love.
Coat-of-Arms shields. Hearts for some of our Princess Leia’s.
Made from Baltic Birch.
Yoda
Staffs. Made of Ash, each is an
eight-sided staff. (See below for the simple sled jig to cut the
tapers).
A simple sled for cutting the staff tapers. A screw in the
far end of the sled secure the tapered end of eth staff. Four
passes and rotations through the blade and voila, you have a
tapered staff.
The "Space Arks" are made from fir and the wing
is white pine.
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2006
VBS--Sky High!
Where Superheroes train to share God's love...
Tops was a huge hits at VBS 2006. Our kids just
loved them. The are made from 1/2" and 3/4" Baltic Birch plywood
and the kids had a ball painting them.
The process of making them was pretty easy. A
simple circle cutting jig on the bandsaw made short work of the
tops. I used my lathe to turn a point and groove in the spindle.
The handles were formed by utilizing a hardboard template at the
router table. Easy!
Treasure Boxes
for Power Words
"Sticks and stone my break our bones but words
will never harm us." We learned this childhood rhyme as a child
and it is a lie! Words have been the cause of countless acts of
violence and even wars. So, in our treasure box, we placed rocks
that had our Superhero power words written on them. Words like
Love, peace, understanding and forgiveness! Using these power
words we really can be superheroes in this world full of pain!
Our boxes are made from 1/4" hardboard tops and
bottoms, 1/2" Baltic Birch plywood for the sides and simple
popsicle sticks for eth front and back! Glue on a couple strips
of ribbon and you have instant hinges! My ruler does not show it
very well, but it is 4.5" long.
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Vacation Kids Academy (Formerly VBS) 2007
Here is about 50 of the the seventy something swords and
shields we made for our Adventure in Narnia!
We also made some simple candle bases--just 6x6" hardwood
with some edge treatment.
The Kid's Academy Craft
This Pine recipe box is designed to be put together by the
1st- 5th grade children at our Parish’s after school program
called The Kids Academy. The project’s part are all milled up
and ready to be put together by the kids. We only have 25
minutes, so everything is pre-drilled and ready to go.
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