Download and print off this free Vacation Bible School curriculum to use in your ministry. Bible Boot Camp “The Armor of God” is a VBS theme based on Ephesians 6:11-18. The links below contain all the lesson plans, craft ideas, and directions you need. Just download the following three PDF files to get started. Special thanks to Tara Merrill, a reader who wanted to share this curriculum with others.
Download this Free VBS Material
- Director Manual (ignore the copyright notice, the author has given you permission to copy it from our website to use in your ministry)
- Activity Books
- Revised Activity Book for Younger Children
- Teacher handbook
More Suggestions & Resources
- Print our free Armor of God coloring pages
- Craft & decoration examples from a church that used this curriculum
- More army themed VBS ideas
- How another church taught about the Armor of God
- Watch the Armor of God song by Go Fish
For more help be sure to check out our tips for planning VBS, gathering VBS crafts, or some game ideas for VBS.
Tara has sent us a second free VBS program. The new one is a Fruit of the Spirit VBS. Follow that link to download this free material now.
After you download the curriculum you will see a notice about not making copies without written permission. The curriculum creator has granted permission for you to use this in your local church ministry. So, copies in that context are allowed. For other uses, you can leave a comment on this post for the author.
One of our readers, Tara Merrill, wanted to share this vacation bible school material. I was really impressed when she sent me the files. I could tell right away that put her heart into writing this curriculum. Here is how she described it in a comment on our site. Be sure to leave a message at the bottom of this page to let her know you appreciate her efforts.
I am 22 years old trying to follow God’s call in my life. I believe He is leading me to write low-cost, Scripture-driven VBS programs. By His grace and will, I wrote one this summer centering on the armor of God passage found in Ephesians 6:11-18. It is a full program and can be adapted for any church size, as long as people are willing to volunteer. I provide craft and snack ideas, but do not include the actual materials as I believe it is cheaper to purchase the necessary items in one’s own hometown. I also provide drama scripts and dialog to help guide the leaders.
Please leave your comment below with any ideas for improvements or clarifications that need to be made. Your feedback will help Tara make improvements in future programs.
Thank you very much . we are working on a limited budget andthis really helps . this is awesome of you to give your time and talents for such a worthy cause .this is our second annual vbs to be held in a haitian church in ft lauderdale .may god continue to bless you in all you do . Richard H.
Hi Tara! So glad to have come upon this site. I am hoping you can help me with a question. We are looking at this curriculum for a VBS we are doing in Haiti in July 2013. I wondered if we can go into the documents and edit them and add some translations ourselves to what you have. It would be so awesome to bring VBS to the children of Haiti in their own language. We have a translator available to help us out before we go. Would love your input. Thanks!
Bev
Hi Bev, I am also going with a missions team to Haiti in a couple of weeks and teaching the Armor of God. Anything you have in their language that you’d be willing to share with me would be great! I don’t have any resources in Haitian Creole, so as of now we are trusting the translators to translate everything for us there. My email is jessica_t_bowers@yahoo.com Blessings, Jessica
I have been helping with our church VBS program for about 4 years now. I suggested using this one my second year and have never regretted it. Even to this day, most of the teenage class that I assisted with still remember all the pieces which is a huge bonus since I have a hard time getting them to remember things from morning class to evening! You will not go wrong with this if you use it.
Thank you for the Armor of God VBS material. Our VBS committee had decided on “something” about the armor of God, calling it “Knight School” when we “ran across” this material. Thank you again for your help!
Pastor Fred Thomas
Columbia Church of God
Columbia, PA
Thanks everyone. I am Ed from the Philippines. I am helping a very small church among the less fortunate people; however, that’s not gonna be a barrier anymore to conduct VBS this summer because of the materials you made available on this site.
May God continue to use you to bless many children in the world.