La Sagrada Familia-VBS Days

We spent 5 full days in Peru: 1 intro/tour/hang out with kids day; 2 zoo days; and 3 VBS-type days. These days always started with the full group for singing, a Bible story skit, Bible verse and prayer. It looked just like this...Then the kids divided into their casa groups for games, crafts, and other activities related to the Bible story of the day. Our three Bible stories were Jonah and the Whale, Daniel and the Lion's Den, and Joshua and the Walls of Jericho. Each of these days I was with the craft group, and three girls' casas rotated through our station. Here's what the front of the classroom looked like as Abbie explained the craft. The woman next to her was translating everything for us... Here's what the back of the classroom looked like as the girls are listening and working on their craft. Crazy, huh? This was definitely the biggest casa we had in the rotation and ultimately we split them up into two rooms for more space, but these kids are definitely used to sharing stuff and space... One of our crafts was a suncatcher type thing using contact paper. The girls are hard at work...
One of the beautiful finished products...

On the Daniel Day, we did free hand water color paintings of something from the Bible story. It was awesome to see the girls' natural talent...

Look at these amazing paintings...

Each afternoon, there were more fun activities planned for the kids. Monday afternoon, there were lots of fun "zoo games" planned to help get the kids exciting about the zoo trips the following days. These zoo games were basically different group games with new animal titles! On Thursday afternoon, we put on a carnival with all types of "booths" with your typical carnival type games. There were potato sack races...
Fishing...
I wonder what's lurking behind the fishing pond? Jocelyn and her adorable new friends...

Face painting, just to name a few...