Prop making Saturday morning

Today was a very productive morning. Everyone was scurrying around trying to get props made before practice tomorrow for our Trunk or Treat performance.

These cute little spiders will be used for "Itsy Bitsy Spider" and we're made from the little squishy critters from Dollar Tree. We took 4 pipe cleaners to twisted around their middles to make the legs.

One of the guys is being wrapped in white crepe paper to look like a mummy for our Carmen song, "No More Monsters." I'm not quite sure this costume will hold up due to his many dancing moves. We are going to look for the gauzy first aid wrap. I think that might be more durable. Tomorrow's practice will be the test.

These little guys for the Dollar Tree were attached to fishing line for our spout and other little spots they might need to pop up on.

Here's a picture of the making of the spout. I forgot to get one of the finished product. An overhead of the drain spout was made and traced onto orange poster board that is black light ready. Then it was glued to a white foam board and then reinforced with paint sticks.

Notice the hole drilled in the paint stick with a tie wrap through the hole. This makes for easy prop storage. Here's a picture of a rolling clothes rack with props being placed for easy performance retrieval.

We like to use shower hooks on the rods and several props can be hung on a single hook.

We also needed to spray paint more paint sticks for handles for words that were glued to black foam board to make  props we needed. Here's a picture of the words. They were made with transparencies and then cut out.

Extra props that cannot be hung are placed in plastic totes and organized by songs. 

And lastly, here are the little smiley faces from the dollar tree mounted to black foam board and Popsicle sticks were sprayed painted black and taped to make handles for "If You're Happy And You Know It" 

We can't wait for practice tomorrow to see how the kids choreograph the songs. I'll post some video and pictures tomorrow after practice.

Looking to further the Kingdom, 

Tammy