Blast Off VBS Decorations {Monday Made It}

This is the 200th post on my little blog and I'm so excited that it happened on Monday Made It day because it is my all time favorite linky party!! 

Enough celebrating, time to get down to business with Miss Tara over at 4th Grade Frolics. 

This is my first time getting to link up for MMI this summer and I'm so excited because I get to share some snapshots from our VBS decorating. You'll have to forgive me for the poor picture quality. I was in such a rush trying to make sure I had all the supplies I needed yesterday and I forgot my camera. 

We always choose to make one big, focal piece for our decorations and this year we just knew it had to be a rocket. 

So how'd we do it? 

Tum-E Yummies, anyone? We were GIFTED these three drink displays and they made the perfect base for our rocket. We just assembled the displays, stacked them on top of each other, and used some duct tape to hold them in place. 

We added some silver wrapping paper to the front and red and yellow tissue paper around the bottom for the flames. For the top we used two pieces of red poster board taped together and cut out a cone. 

This was one of the easiest and least expensive decorating projects we've ever done. I love the way it turned out! 

Here is a shot of the stage area. We used gossamer from Oriental Trading to drape the back wall and then added some more stars from OT to finish it all off. 

Here is the view as soon as you come into the church. I just love all the twirly star and planet decorations we added.  

Remember those posters I had printed at Office Max? We used them downstairs to add a little color to the walls. We also used these really neat wall decals in the hallway and dining room downstairs. 

I thought someone might be interested in seeing what the packaging looked like. These came from Wal Mart and I think they'd be fantastic in a classroom!  I'm always getting classroom ideas when we decorate for VBS. 

What have you been creating? Link up with Tara so we can all hear about it! 

Hay Day VBS {Monday Made It}

I've feel like I've been MIA from the blogging world these past few days because I've been very busy preparing for VBS! Since I did make a lot of the decorations for VBS I thought I'd share some of those with you today, so this post will not be school related unless your classroom theme is farm/western! 

We spent 12 hours at church yesterday  - it was an amazing VBS marathon! We had regular Sunday School and service, then a quick lunch, decorating after that, and then at 6:30 VBS officially started! 

I love directing VBS so waking up yesterday morning was like Christmas morning for me! I couldn't wait to get to church and get started having fun and teaching the little ones about Christ. 

Here are a few pictures from our decorations. 

Sorry about the glare. I guess foam board and high gloss paint will do that to you! I am loving the foam board and will for sure be using it for bulletin boards in my classroom this year! 

All of the goodies in this display were from our barn. As were getting these things out of my husband's truck our nephew said, "Why are we cleaning out Uncle D's truck?" It was adorable because these are all legit truck items for us and he knows it!

This might be my favorite part of the decorations! Just cardboard boxes spray painted and then cut into strips. I wanted to do our whole big barn this way but I think that might've taken a little too much time! 

We are having a ball this week at VBS, but I already have plans to be back next week for Monday Made It with my first school made it of the summer. I bought a fresh ink cartridge over the weekend and I'll printing and laminating all weekend.