Awesome job this weekend!!!

Just want to take a moment to say thank you GLO PUPPET MINISTRY Team for your awesome performances this weekend!  Your hard work, dedication, and love for the Lord shows in all you do. You are truly a blessing to work with and I thank God for giving me the opportunity to be a part of such an amazing group of kids!!  Keep God first, keep your focus on Him and let His will be done in all you do!!! Love you all!!!! 

Looking to further the Kingdom,

Tammy

Invitation to Sunnyside Baptist Church, Kingsport, TN

I would like to personally invite you to our summer production of "CREATION CRAWLER ADVENTURES" at Sunnyside Baptist Church on Friday, July 26 @ 7:00 pm and again on Saturday, July 27 @ 3:00 pm. The GLO puppet ministry will present a simple message of theGospel in a way you've never experienced. Young and old will enjoy this awesome presentation!!!! Hope to see you there!!! Looking to further the Kingdom!

Behind the scenes look at Creation Crawler

Here are some pictures of the making of Creation Crawler.

It all started with our "living Christmas tree" base. 

Then we covered each level with green felt. Next plastic chicken wire that can be purchased at Lowes was attached with s hooks on each level in the same width that it comes. We then crumpled bulletin board paper that was highlighted with a dry brush of glow in the dark paint just to hit the high spots so it would glow was applied. After all 3 levels were completed in this manner, the fun part of attaching the decorations began.

Coral was cut with a hot knife from styrofoam sheets and then spray painted with fluorescent paint. The paint melted the styrofoam which added to the cool effects. You'll be able to see them closer in some of the following pictures.

On some of the pieces, bath sponges from the Dollar Tree were pulled apart and glued on. We also glued toilet paper rolls to plastic bowls that was covered in black light material. Yarn was hot glued to bowls to make our "brainy"coral.

We had to black the sanctuary walls. A new great find was at Wal-mart in the twin sheet section. Flat twin sheets are only $4. Great price!!!

Here is a picture of our clam drums. This was made with chicken wire, paper mâché, and bulletin board paper that was crinkled and dry brushed painted with fluorescent paint so that it would glow with the lights out. The base for the shells are pool noodles cut up and melted with a flame to give them shape and then spray painted.

The keyboard is made of different lengths of pool noodles attached toa paint stick.

The large pink tree is a limb that we cemented in a coffee can and then applied foam spray insulation with a final touch of fluorescent spray paint. We also attached. Black light to this as well. You might be able to seethe curly willow branches that were cemented into coffe cans and spray painted with green fluorescent paint. This made we some fillers!

Some of the other filler coral is Christmas decoration floral picks and just greenery bushes that we took apart. Some were touched up with fluorescent paint, others glowed on their own. Packing peanuts were glued to some styrofoam for texture. Plastic children's whistles from the Dollar Tree were also cut up and shaped into coral. Also  the fan coral was made from the plastic crosstitch canvas that glowed on their own. We jut hot glued glow in the glow in the dark pipe cleaners to them. Most of this'll came from Hobby Lobby.

Here is a look inside the tree on the bottom level. We found the garden knee pads from Dollar Tree worked wonderful for the kids to kneel on

The toilet paper rolls were spray painted and the string from weed eaters was just the right shape to look like flowing coral. This is our hermit crab guitars on chicken wire

More behind the scenes

Well, it's almost time for our performance tonight. Hope this inspires you.

Looking to further the Kingdom!!

Tammy

Practicing for the performance

We are getting ready for another "Creation Crawler Adventure" under the sea performance on Friday, July 26 at 7:00 p.m. And again on Saturday, July 27 at 3:00 p.m. at Sunnyside Baptist Church in Kingsport, Tennessee. Please join us for this wonderful presentation of the gospel. Invite your friends and families and join us!!!! 

Here are a few pictures from practice this afternoon.

 We didn't have time to put up the reef.

Re-assigning parts takes some time.

Rushing to get their parts.

New choreography for the jellys

Our awesome clam,crabs, and seahorse band!!

Looking to further the Kingdom!

Tammy

Wordless Book Instruction

Let me explain about the Wordless book....it's made of felt squares, each square is a page. This is a wonderful website for more information: http://berean.org/bibleteacher/wb.html. It's an awesome way to explain the plan of salvation to little ones.  The colors are gold, red, black, white, and green. We bought our felt squares at Hobby Lobby and really didn't have to do anything except sew a straight stitch down the left side to "bind the book."

You could even make this from construction paper so that you could pass them out to your audience. 

If you are planning a backyard Bible club, you could take a color a day and really emphasize what that color means. For instance, yellow is for Heaven. You could sing songs about Heaven, teach a bible lesson about Heaven, and have your craft about Heaven. Plus, the kids could work on making their wordless book throuout the week so that they could share the plan of salvation with others. After all, that is our commandment to Go, tell others. If you Google "The Wordless Book" or visit the website I posted, you should be able to find lots of ideas to make this work for you. 

Looking to further the Kingdom,

Tammy

Terrific Tuesdays!!!!

One of our favorite invites through the year is to visit Terrific Tuesdays. It's a time of bible study, meal, and "love on kids" time at Community United Methodist Church in Kingsport. We have been asked to bring our puppet ministry to the kids the last few years, usually around Valentine's day or near Halloween. These Picts are from our puppet performance on Valentine's day. We did a few songs, and explained the Wordless Book. 

Let me explain about the Wordless book....it's made of felt squares, each square is a page. This is a wonderful website for more information: http://berean.org/bibleteacher/wb.html. It's an awesome way to explain the plan of salvation to little ones.  The colors are gold, red, black, white, and green. We bought our felt squares at Hobby Lobby and really didn't have to do anything except sew a straight stitch down the left side to "bind the book."

Here are a few pictures from that puppet performance:

Singing "The B-I-B-L-E"

"God is Bigger Than the Boogie Man"

Jesus Loves Me

And..we made a glove puppet for each child so they could sing the "Gospel Fuzzies Song" with us. These were a huge hit!!!!

So excited to be performing and sharing with these kids again on July 16. Please, pray for that God will bless the performance and seeds can be planted.

Looking to further the Kingdom,

Tammy

Christmas in July

Well, I guess you could say Christmas in July!! I thought this post might put you in the mood for Christmas. You see, in the world of puppets, we have to plan ahead. It's that time to start looking for music and get our story line in order. I'd like to share some pictures of Christmas pasts. Let me start at the beginning.

You see, Brent, the master carpenter, made a barn front for the puppets several years ago, when his wife, Angie, our puppet director, thought it would be a good idea to do a fall festival variety show with youth and puppets. We served BBQ and the fixings and filled our fellowship hall. It was a huge success. A lot of effort went into the barn and the animal puppets were so cute we had to expand on it. So....a Christmas performance was done with a children's musical by Jeff Slaughter. We really didn't use any of his songs, but did use the play. It was a hit as well. Next Christmas, we built off of the story line and added our "living Christmas tree" of puppets. So, each Christmas, we have used the same storyline and props, but Brent, wrote different plays for us. Each one, always has a "simple"presentation of the Gospel, and is supported by songs performed by our puppets. The acting has always been left up to adults and any youth that like the spotlight. But, the songs have always been performed by our puppeteers. The year before this past Christmas, we did some blacklight drama with white gloves. I'll post about some of those later. There's just so much to share.... 

The famous barn front decked out for Christmas

Our favorite rooster 

The living Christmas tree

More of our animals singing back up

A little more of the set

A better picture of the tree

A look at the whole set!

Creation Crawler March 2013 Performance

Creation Crawler Underwater Sea Adventure is a collaboration of several years of ideas that finally came about in March of 2013. We are planning on performing this play again on July 26, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. and July 27, 2013 at 3:00 at Sunnyside Baptist Church in Kingsport, TN.  I thought you might like to see some pictures from behind the scenes of the production. We first chose our songs we would perform, and then Brent Helvey wrote our awesome play. It takes place "under the sea" and Brent not only wrote the play, but did I mention he is also our awesome carpenter as well. He built the bubble blowing submarine that he starred in and also built our coral reef/living Christmas tree (during our puppet Christmas performances). It's hard to believe that the whole production came together in 2 1/2 months. God is so good!!! The whole performance is done in black light. If you live close, please bring your family for this unbelievable presentation of the Gospel.

Clam Puppets made by Beth Cole

Part of stage set...Yellow Submarine

Making of the Coral Reef

Hermit Crab Guitars

Some of the puppeteers cheesing for the camera.

1st time practicing in the coral reef

Turtles and jelly fish made by Beth Cole

Setting up for the performance

Middle stage with some of the fish swimming

More practice

and more practice

Chatty girls

Sea horse drums

"Blacking out" the Sanctuary for the performance

Choreography with jelly fish

Some pictures of practice before the performance

Final light adjustments

Last Practice before the performance

Hermit crab made by Beth Cole (She's awesome, by the way)

Lighting and bubble check for the sub

A look at the curtains

Putting the coral reef together

Final adjustments again