VBS Bags

I was reminded today that I need to put more tips for teaching on the blog, so, here goes one. In our congregation, we give our children folders, pouches or bags for them to transport their Bible class material to and from class each quarter and for VBS.

For the last few years we have been purchasing blank canvas bags from Oriental Trading (www.orientaltrading.com) and ironing computer generated iron-on transfers onto them. We use a graphics program like Print Shop or Print Master to design our graphic to fit the theme of our VBS (or theme of the Bible class quarter) and then print it onto iron-on, T-shirt transfers using an ink jet printer with its "normal" ink. The bags we purchase cost from $1.00 to $1.50 each and are very durable. We still have a number of them floating around from previous years. Our children love them (as do their parents) and look forward to their new bag each year. This year our theme is King of Kings and we are using canvas, back-pack bags. We have a picture of the five different kings we will be studying on the bag.

FYI--The T-shirt, iron-on transfers can be purchased at any office supply chain as well as Walmart. We buy ours from Sam's and save considerably with the cost. One word of caution: be sure and select the "print reverse for iron-on transfer" option from your print set-up screen just before you click "print" or else the names, words, and images will be backwards when ironed onto the bag.

Be creative and enjoy! Let me know how this works out for you.

Dana Burk