Peace Presbyterian's "Jesus Boat" welcoming the children to the Sunday School hallway.
The boat was made out of cardboard stapled to a rough wooden frame and painted brown. Jesus was modeled by a student and his head replaced by artwork. The mast is also cardboard and the sail is a calico-like cloth stuff with newspaper.
Waves to be added soon.
A sign announcing current and upcoming workshops is further down the hall (Jesus is pointing to it). See it in the next post.
The frame's curved edge is a thin 1" strip of pine from Lowes. It curved nicely. The frame was mostly for shape as tapling the cardboard to the frame created most of the strength we needed.
"Tracing Jesus"
The "planking" on the (cardboard) boat is painted on... an extra coat of the same paint applied with a rough brush.
One of our biggest objectives was to create an eye-catching design that was large enough to be seen by visitors from our main hallway. Many of our workshops and younger children's rooms have either a SEA or outdoorsy motif. And we have a small lake right out the door to the right of the boat. Jesus + boat seemed to tie it all together for us.
The Jesus Boat
Here are two photos of the model of the "Jesus Boat" based on a fishing boat found in the mud of the Sea of Galilee in 1986. Click on them to enlarge.
Jesus Boat Model photos courtesy of Michael Minn,
http://michaelminn.net/