15 Apr Patience – Play It Cool, Trust It’s Worth the Wait – May 2013 – Part 1

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Life App: Patience
Theme: Play it Cool – Trust It’s Worth the Wait
Date: May 2013

Ideas We Brainstormed

  • Paint our backdrop (10 insulation foam panels) a cool blue-similar to that in the 252 Basics Theme Graphic
  • Cut out large paper snowflakes (using white butcher/craft paper) and pin them all around the border of the backdrop
  • Cut letters out of the Cricut that say “Play it Cool” for the center part of the backdrop
  • Create a “Chill Hill” and a “Chillinator” as described in the 252 Basics Get Ready and Large Group Visual Sections of the curriculum (These would be put on stage and left out all month as part of the set)
  • Lay white batting along the floor of the entire set to resemble snow
  • Hang foam snowflakes from the ceiling throughout the entire environment (we have these from our Christmas decor, they were a Dollar Store purchase during the holiday season)

Where We Are Headed

We are planning to use a lot of the ideas we brainstormed, but as we thought through it… we decided to tweak it a bit and go a little “bigger” this month. We’ve already scheduled work days and have recruited a few extra volunteers because we know it’s going to be a lot of work. Here’s what we are planning/hoping for!

  • Our backdrop will resemble the 252 Theme Graphic. The center will be blue and the outer edges white with a snowflake pattern. We plan to paint 5 of our panels (the center ones) blue. The outer 5 (3 on one side, 2 on the other) will be painted white.
  • We are going to create several stencils of very large snowflakes. We’ll take an image from Google and enlarge it (using our projector) onto poster board. We’ll cut the snowflakes out, leaving the poster board in one piece so that we have a stencil.
  • We’ll lay the snowflake stencils around the outer edges of the blue panels, overlapping them as we spray paint snowflakes onto the panels, creating a border. We’ll also have a few stencils with open holes and stars like the graphic.
  • We’ll enlarge the words “Play It Cool” from the graphic (using the projector and insulation foam for a 3-D effect). We’ll  carve the letters out with a hot knife and paint them a different/complimentary blue color.
  • We’ll have the words “Trust It’s Worth the Wait” printed on a Photo Tex sticker and adhere it to a piece of  insulation foam to match the 3-D dimensions of the carved letters.
  • We’ll attach batting to the floor of our stage.
  • We’ll hang foam snowflakes from the ceiling throughout our environment.
  • Instead of a Chill Hill, we will create a “Chillinator” from insulation foam. We will re-write the scripts to use the Chillinator each week in place of the “Chill Hill” and Time Machine.
  • We plan to go with the idea of it being cold inside the Chillinator, rather than windy, so it will have a “window” with spray paint on the edges to look like frost. We might use a fog machine to create a cold/cryo-fog effect.

Supplies

  • Insulation Foam (10 panels for our backdrop, 3 for “Chillinator”, scrap for letters)
  • Flat Paint-icy blue, light blue and white
  • White Spray Paint
  • Metallic Silver Paint
  • White Poster Board
  • Projector for enlarging images
  • White Batting
  • Graphic on Photo Tex – “Trust It’s Worth the Wait”
  • T-Square
  • Ruler
  • Scissors
  • Utility Knife
  • Hot Knife

Check back closer to May for Part 2 of this post where you’ll get more details about the creation of the Chillinator (I’m sure there will be some trial and error with it up until “go time!”), photos of our finished set, and the process we went through to create a Winter Wonderland in May!