Comments on: Wiper Sock Giveaway

By: Cindy

Cindy — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 04:37:23 +0000

Last year we did a artic theam for Bible School and we are a small church and like so many others no budjet so after Christmas I went around to every store I could think of to see if they would donate anything and we hit the jack pot! There was one store that gave us everything they had left over including 60 rolls of paper and 100 boxes of candy cains so to strech the funds even more we had a action one Sunday following our PM service and we raised funds by sailing the paper and the candy cains. We are also doing the same thing for Easter. We have enough free stuff that every child will recive a nice Easter Basket and they we even have enough that the children are going to fill baskets to bring to a local nursing home along with home made cards. God is good! He gave to us and now the children can give back to the nursing home!

By: Jen

Jen — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 00:14:29 +0000

I work at a camp and put on our children’s program camps. Our budget was low this year for decorations, so we pulled out old decorations and made them new. There were large cups made out of styrofoam that we cut into rocks. Large blocks of colorfully painted styrofoam were made into fruit. The green carpet that was going to be thrown away made a great grass lawn. Cotton batting made wonderful clouds with white christmas light stars.

By: tina glover

tina glover — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:00:48 +0000

this years fall fest. i ask all our parents to bring any old toys their kids dont want or dont play with.we set up games go fish,bag toss,ect. gave each kid alot of tickets.and they had a ball winning used toys. made parents glad to clean house and kids had a ball.no cost at all!but the fun is priceless.god bless children church leader.

By: Kimber Scott

Kimber Scott — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:01:56 +0000

I had to lower my budget for 2009 by $8,000! We’ve started so many new programs that do involve prize-giving. So I went to Goodwill & other thrift stores and bought prizes for 10, 25 & 50 cents each. They’re new toys! Needless to say, the boys aren’t happy with me since I forgot to take the goodwill price tags off…so I had to make a run to Walmart last week to raid their $1 “boy” toys.

By: Jayna

Jayna — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 22:46:29 +0000

I make preschool puzzles,books, toys, and other supplies go further be rotating the stories so that no group does the same sotry on the same day. This works especailly well in VBS. Class 1 will do Mondays story on Monday but Class 2 will do Tuesday’s story on Monday. ect. This way I need only 1 puzzle for Jesus feeding the 5000 instead of 5. Preschoolers are not concerned about the chronoligical order. Also the teachers can pass the gathered supplies to the next one in line and this saves time. Often there will be “leftovers” so the teacher will have even less preparation. Save time and money! I have been doing this for 18 years. If I have a teacher that is uncomfortable then that one gets the “proper order” most of the time they are very happy with the idea.

By: Angela Nyberg

Angela Nyberg — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:49:29 +0000

We wanted to make the walls in our children’s area unique and eye catching but we had no money. So we asked the children to donate a matching set of clothes – pants (or skirt) and shirt. We then stapled them up to the wall in various different poses and in different groupings. The kids were excited to see their clothes hanging there and it gave a great 3D effect.

By: Shelly

Shelly — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:00:06 +0000

Bibles. I always run out of Bibles for my Children’s Church. of course my budget has been slashed… like 50%… so no money for Bibles. This year I threw myself a birthday party (yes, I know… I always do this, it gets all my friends together and the expense is mine)… On the invite card this year I put.. please bring no presents, but just $7 for a Bible for Kid’s church). My friends responded so sweetly and we raised enough money to buy 48 bibles! How cool is that?! I’m so happy!

By: Karen Grant

Karen Grant — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:35:00 +0000

We just recently cleaned out our storage closet and pitched or donated all the odds & ends that have been left over from projects from the past 10 years(?). Allowing us to go from three large storage areas to two smaller closets. Anything that was in bulk, we decided to keep – popcicle sticks, beads, foam shapes. We decided, as a team, that any crafts we do this year will planned by heading to the closet and pulling out what we already have and, well, getting creative.

By: Julie Beck

Julie Beck — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 04:32:36 +0000

We had a $0 budget for the preschool ministry I was involved in, so we took home all the 100 year old crayons and melted them in muffin tins to make big, multicolored, easy to hold, fun crayons!

By: Nettie

Nettie — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:09:33 +0000

Having absolutely NO budget for decorating a new children’s small group classroom but plenty of creativity, I approached a local wallpaper/paint store and requested their outdated wallpaper sample books. Using the “fun” prints in the books we created fun child-friendly silhouette art for the walls. The kids loved it and it made a dull room fun and colorful.

Having the same budget at the same church and wanting to supply plenty of creative opportunity for the kids during a VBS, I requested newsprint roll ends from our local newspaper office. (These are the “left overs” when a roll of news print gets too near the end during printing. There are many many feet on these roll ends). We had enough paper to roll out on the folding tables (table cloth style) and create a “competition” among the different groups for the best banner. We used the thousands of crayon pieces that had been accumulated and stored in the church storage room. Walaa!! No cost!