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Other Thoughts about Parachutes


Jill Floyd
We're thinking of buying a parachute for movement. Has another church done this? Any great ideas we can share?


Leslee Kirkconnell

Where to buy / other uses
Parachutes are great for movement, recreation and more (try hanging one from the ceiling for decoration/lighting effect). They aren't cheap, but they are quite durable so they will last you a long time. Most of the sports equipment companies sell different sizes - some with handles, some without. Try Wolverine Sports or Bill Fritz (both online) U.S. Games is another company.

There are also good activity books for parachutes and some recreation books also include sections on using parachutes. We use ours (a 'real' parachute - quite huge) for playtime during LOGOS. The kids love bouncing balls, doing waves, running underneath and being lifted on it.

For books try:

Parachute Play: Indoor/Outdoor fun by Liz and Dick Wilmes, Building Blocks Publications. Although primarily aimed at young children, most of the activities are easily adaptable.

The Playbook by Roger Maness, Kenny Shackelford and Don Washburn has a good section about parachutes.

Much of this is recreation oriented, rather than rotation. It might not lend itself in rotation, but then it might be a lot of fun, depending upon the story and how it's presented and planned. The kids do tend to get pretty wound up when using, so planning and control would be the key to keep it 'in bounds.'

Just some thoughts, good luck!


JCarey
Parachutes are excellent. Many of the activities can be adapted to use with various bible stories and concepts. Use your imagination and parachute away. I used it at a different church that I was at for our Friday night VBS fun fair and never had a problem tying it in to the theme and a bible lesson from the week. They are extremely fun and now that I have recalled how much fun... I think I will be buying one for the church I am currently at!


Jan FPC Napa
Decorate a Parachute / Where to buy
We have a 6 ft. parachute that we purchased from S&S Worldwide. It's plain white and you decorate it yourself with permanent markers. It's only $19.99 plus shipping. We bought it one year for VBS and had all the kids sign their name and write/draw something. Here's the link:
https://www.ssww.com/item/6-color-me-parachute-W8253/
2022 Update: they are showing as unavailable at SSWW website, and the site is not showing any parachutes now when I did a search.


Memory Verse / Body of Christ / Handel's Messiah
We've used it for the kids to bounce things on to a beat while saying a memory verse. Also for the Body Of Christ unit (working together). And our Pre/K kids used it to do movement to Handel's Messiah, moving to what the music "feels" like.


Jaymie Derden
Lazarus Story / Miracle Locations / Heavenly Prayers
We've just recently used a parachute in our Music and Movement workshop for Jeuss raises Lazarus and as a review of the miracle stories we've been studying this winter/spring. Kids were assigned locations of the various miracles: Bethany, East of Galilee, Cana, Jericho and given signs that indicated their location. As the group lifted the parachute, the teacher called out a miracle and the kids who had that location had to run across to the other side. It was such a success, we decided to use it again for our Wednesday night group. We are studying prayer. After learning about the Legend of the Phoenix and how biblical people used incense and the smoke of sacrifices to send their prayers toward heaven, we will parachute our prayers to heaven... Haven't done it yet, but think it will work well.

Isn't rotation FUN????


Luanne Payne
Baby Moses / Crossing the Red Sea
In the Moses forum I have posted two parachute games:
Floating Baby Moses Down the River Parachute Game (ages 4-7)
and
Crossing the Red Sea Parachute Game


KArmstrong
Canopy of God's Love
We used a parachute in our first introduction of Rotation Workshops to the parish. It was an idea we had seen at a local informational workshop put on by a church in our area. The two leaders of our Children's Church school carried out a dialogue of trying to get the parachute (referred to as the Canopy of God's Love) up so all the children could experience how great it felt to be under it. The dialogue went on as we realized we couldn't do it on our own to include our minister, some parents and others from the parish. It was a good demonstration, meant to show that many, many people were needed to lift the Canopy of God's love, just as many, many people were needed to lead our workshops and teach our kids!! We then handed out a simple survey asking what skills or interests people had that they could share. Unfortunately it didn't result in a lot of volunteers, but we're still working on it!

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