13 May It’s Snowing In Elementary Environments Across America!

Posted at 15:26h in 2013, Environment, Life App, Once, Patience by lisa 0 Comments
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It’s May in North America and that usually means warmer weather and spring flowers. But, if you’re a 252 Basics user… snowflakes are dusting your children’s environments on Sunday morning. The Life App of Patience this month has kids chilling out as they enter environments through igloos and sit in Chillinators! Check out the amazingly creative work of these churches in Alabama, California, and Texas!

Thanks for sharing your photos. I am excited to continue sharing ideas and photos about how we are getting READY and SET for SUNDAY each month.

Epic Church – Decatur, AL

Redeemer’s Church – Reedley, CA

Process Details from Paula Moore:

  • We used batting, polyester fill, and cotton balls galore.
  • The cotton ball snow hanging all around came from a Pinterest idea (fishing line and a hot glue gun).
  • Our chillinator is actually a giant Larry the Cucumber we already had that we added “snow” to. “Cool as a Cucumber” will be our line.
  • Our “chill hill” is a play slide we covered up with batting. 

Brownsville Community Fellowship – Brownsville, TX

Process Details From Amanda Morales:

  • We painted and taped 2 large cardboard boxes together and taped reinforcement pieces behind the middle crease.
  • The bottom flaps of the bottom box were used as support. The top flaps were cut into the shape of trapezoids, bended back, and taped together making half of a dome.
  • The tunnel was made by painting and taping together three smaller cardboard boxes: the sides stand the way the dome does – the bottom flaps are supports – and the bottom box is flipped on it’s side, bent and taped to the side boxes to make the tunnel shape.
  • Left over pieces of cardboard were taped along creases for support throughout.
  • A hole for the tunnel was measured and cut out with a box cutter and the two pieces (the dome and the tunnel) were taped together with duct tape.
  • The entire piece was propped up against the door and “ice blocks” were spray painted on with mirror colored spray paint.
  • Any blemishes were covered with “snow” (pillow batting.)

True North Community Church – Bohemia on Long Island, NY

Process details From Phil Summers:

We reused a display that was originally built to generate attention for a Habitat for Humanity project . I swooped up the frame when the church was done with it and covered it with cardboard and batting to create the Chillinator. I love reusing and repurposing materials that are already at the church!

Kirk of the Hills –  Tulsa, OK