Frost Boy

Friday night saw the finale of the VBS week at the Baptist church (which SERIOUSLY rocks every single year). As per normal, they ended with a fancy dress party, play/production and food/drink. Everyone got to dress up! The theme for the week had been SuperHeroes, and they learnt of the Armour of God, making something daily to represent each part of the armour. They were invited to dress up as a super hero for Friday night's event.

Jason decided that he was going to go as Frost Boy. That, of course, required a trip to the shops to find white face paint and glitter gel - and a trip to the garage to get the huge pile of bubblewrap we had there.

He ended up looking like this:



The outfit took the least time of the entire thing - simply chopping and taping the bubblewrap together into an outfit around him, then pooling a few pieces at the bottom. I went armed with a roll of tape for emergency fixings, and he made a grand entrance (on the way we got some double-takes from pedestrians and other drivers too!). The face and arms (and hair!) took some doing. He's still got white bits in his hair, but is due for a pre-school-term chop tonight that will get the last of it out.

And he won the seniour group prize!

It's not the first year he's won - he did so 2 years ago as an Ice Monster. For that one he wore a long white robe, and we created a foil cap on his head with long strings of silver hanging from about 10 horns around it - and again, the white face paint.

There were some pretty good costumes on Friday night. The kids love dressing up in crazy outfits, and I'm sure some of the parents would have liked to too.

The youth group put on a production of Antshillvania - the story of the prodical Ant, with much play on words (he wanted to be independANT, and they killed the fatted aphid on his return) and some excellent acting.

Thus ends another year's VBS! Next year's the last one my kid gets to attend...