Cokesbury has announced their VBS theme for 2011. It’s titled, “Cokesbury – Shake It Up Café: Where Kids Carry Out God’s Recipe.” In each of the five days, kids will explore a different Biblical festival and discover the principles for living according to God’s plan. The graphics on the website play off a cooking theme with large chef’s hats, aprons, pots & pans, and tablecloths.
Theme Impression
I’m a big fan of the food network and my own children enjoy some of their shows too. I think this could be a really fun theme. I love the originality and variety of creative directions it could take. My imagination jumped back to the 2007 Disney film Ratatouille which introduced the world of fine cooking to this generation.
Michael from Cokesbury sent me one clarification about the theme. Some have mistaken that the whole think happens in the church kitchen. The truth is that this VBS does not involved the kids being in the kitchen at all – the cafe and kitchen are just the setting (the same as kids are not really riding pandas in Group’s PandaMonium). The Shake It Up Café VBS will feature all the standard VBS fun: recreation, crafts, music, assembly time, mission.
More Information
Our website will have a full review of this Vacation Bible School curriculum sometime this winter. You can get more information from Cokesbury’s official website, Facebook page, or Twitter account. They have bible content overview and music samples.
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This is the best VBS our church has ever done. The music was great the kids loved it. I know that i still have all those songs stuck in my head. The snacks were very good too they really loved the smoothies yum! The bible lessons even I learned things from. Discovery time was cool too we learned some pretty neat things from it. The games were fun the kids loved the games and really got involved! The crafts were really cute. I lead the 3rd and 4th grade students along with being the director of VBS and there favorite time was going to crafts. We had about 25 kids attend our VBS this year . At the closing ceremony the kids got up in front of there families and sang and danced to the songs for them. Even the teachers got evolved in the dancing. Our favorite song was everybody celebrate. I did not hear one compliant from any one evolved in this VBS we had so much fun “SHAKING THINGS UP” :)
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