VBS Set Design

This is the background set design that we put together for our Vacation Bible School last week at Lifepoint. I hadn’t ever worked on putting together something like this before and it was a lot of work – but it was also a lot of fun.

It’s amazing what you can do with some cardboard, duct tape, foam and paint. We were actually able to find a lot of materials lying around, or donated from someone that was about to throw it away. The backdrop was assembled from three pieces of foam, with the shack built out of a fourth piece. Although we all pitched in here and there on the backdrop, most of the painting was delegated to Ben. The boat was constructed from an empty grill box. The dock is a piece of staging with cardboard on top and the railing is made from two long cardboard tubes cut into sections. We laid down green cellophane for the water and the plants were already part of the church decor.

Overall, we put this together for less than $100, with the only expenses being the cellophane, the foam, the Spanish moss  and the paint.