Good Samaritian     Priest                                                   Pharoah     Roman Soldier

This is the most costly part of our VBS program. Though you must consider that the items can be used throughout the years including a Passion play this ministry has, and a Christmas play. Unlike a boxed VBS kit where it is used once and outdated you can reuse these costumes.  As for the price you can decide what you want to spend. We only suggest and supply a means for your church to purchase these items.  The sucess of your program will only be what you make it, through prayer and time.  The headgear paints a strong picture of the characters in the SKITS so we highly recommend that you consider purchasing.  You can be creative and have women in your church make the costumes like many church already have done for Christmas plays.  The Priest, and Pharoah, Roman head gear are VERY IMPORTANT parts so if possible purchase them.  The Roman armor makes a nice touch with a red cloth type tunic but there is no need for a sword or shield as the soldier will need only a hammer.

The hammer should be a blacksmith type hammer.  Ruff cut nails 3" are about 7.00 a pound and can be purchased at House of antique hardware (888) 223-2545

Here is a link for some accessories and customes. http://www.christiancostumes.com/index.shtml

You will need these customes for the mini skits. You can search out directions to make them like the one below.

 Roman soldier custome to make

Things You'll Need:

• oversized tshirt
• Step 1 To get maximum effect while putting minimal amount of money into the costume your going to have to put in some sweat equity. Find a good costume shop locally or online and buy the cheap plastic helmet and chest armor. as I recall I was able to outfit  each soldier with his armor for less than 15 bucks.
• Step 2  Now comes the artistic effort. Spruce up the helmet by adding your own plume. the original centurions would have had lion mane for a helmet accent but you can get along fine with colored pipe cleaners or faux feathers. Just hot glue them on to the store-bought helmet. You will probably also need to beef up the helmets strapping system. Mine came with those decapitatingly-thin strings. use faux leather to make a proper strap.                                  Step 3  Your undergarment will be an oversized T-shirt. make sure it hangs mid thigh.
  The store bought chest plate needs some help. Make a short cape out of the cheapest red material (try to match your helmet plume)you can find. The shoulder decorations serve to hide the t-shirt look of the t-shirt. secure both to the chest plate itself so that your soldier puts it on as one piece.
• Step 4   Your leather skirt, arm-bands and shin-guards will be made of faux leather. It is easy to find in any half rate fabric store and is cheap. The stuff I got had a cottonish fuzz on the back.
  Cut your skirt to fit the wearer and slice places for a cheap leather belt to thread thru it. close the skirt up by sewing or velcroing. Velcro is best for the wrist bands and shin-guards as well. you want it to be easy to get on and off. The flip flops or cheap sandals are hidden somewhat by the shin-guards.

• SOME MATERIALS FOR THIS PROGRAM complete details are given along with the lesson plans after you register. You must register from the Keyboards For Christ Music Ministry main website. http:keyboardsforchrist.org

TIME>>>prayer.. The customes for the  skits.[ Roman soldier/Pharoah/Preist/Good Samaritian/     Dirt  to make mud bricks/ straw/ cardboard box/ cardboard/ gold spray paint/ two long sticks to place through the ark/ walking sticks from trees have men of church find and cut them one for each child and two for the other adult skits/ colored tape/ ribbon: Red,Yellow,Green, Blue,/ Pine cones/ Peanut butter/Margerine/2X4s or some other old wood to make three wooden crosses/ Hand Cut nails you can get at Lowes or hardware store for craft activity/ Used Coffee grinds/ Old flat type hammer for Roman Soldier/Back Packs/ Optional First Aid kit craft/ Water in plastic bottles that they will carry each day/ Container to mix mud in for mud bricks/ Alum. baking pans 16 cents each/ Water in bottles/ stickers/ Modg glue if do first aid kit/ Somekind of material for hand cut nail cross craft/ Some live plants or trees to plant a garden/ Siccors/ sharp knief/ sickle hand held/

Three Easy-up tents / fake blood to place on cross/ crown of thorns and white cloth to place on the ground by the crosses

 mold for mud bricks