One of the major VBS curriculums for 2015 is using stories
from the book of Daniel, so I thought that I better get the rest of my Daniel
posts on here.
We had a puppet stage that morphed from being the fiery furnace into the lions’ den. The cardboard lion in front of the den was an old
VBS prop. It was just made from a picture of a lion in a coloring book
projected onto cardboard and painted.
The paper was leftover from some scenery used elsewhere. We
kept the paper on after we finished Daniel and made this into a tomb for Easter.
Hint – ever noticed how cardboard warps if you paint it? Did
you know that if you paint the back side of your cardboard it will “unwarp” it?
The cardboard shrinks when the paint dries – painting both sides counteracts
the shrinkage and you will get a straight piece of cardboard again. You only
need a light coat on the back side. (We did not paint the back side of our lion and you can see that it is a little warped.)
We used this puppet stage to make the lions’ den, and then
we presented a puppet show. Leo and Lawrence, two twin lions, told the story to
us of Daniel and the Lion’s Den. Here is
the script if you