How This VBS Program Operates Each Day
Each day of Follywood includes numerous activities for the children to participate in. All of these activities can be covered in five days, running two and one half hours per day. The Director's Guidebook shows you how to create a schedule which will allow you to include all of these activities in your VBS. Here’s a quick look at how this VBS program is designed to operate each day. As you will see, each day’s VBS activities are divided into six time sessions, which run for roughly 20 minutes each.

Opening Assembly (Session 1) After children have arrived each day and checked in with their Age Group Leaders, all the children will assemble as one large group in a large room such as a church sanctuary. The opening assembly consists of the following:
	Opening Song The worship leader or drama leader will lead the children in singing the VBS Theme Song to start off on the right foot.
	Opening Skit A fun drama and puppet skit is performed for all the children which introduces the lesson focus for that day of VBS.
VBS Lesson and Activities (Sessions 2-5) After the opening assembly, the children are divided into their respective age groups (described in the Director's Guidebook) and sent off to participate in five VBS activity sessions. During any given time session, each VBS age group will be involved in a different activity than the other groups. At the end of each time session, each group will ROTATE to a different activity until all of your age groups have participated in all of the activity sessions (meaning that each group will go to the VBS activities in a different order). You will need a room or area for each of these activity sessions, which are as follows:
	Bible Story Lesson & Worksheet Time with Memory Verse During this important teaching time, the children learn from the Bible each day and also have time to work on worksheets which they will take home.
	Bible Application Lesson Time This equally important teaching time provides children with a Scripture-filled hands-on object lesson that shows how the day’s Bible lesson can be applied to their lives on a daily basis.
	Game Time For a break, the children get to run off some energy by participating in a fun game which either helps them to apply the day’s lesson or just to have fun.
	Crafts and Snack Time Here, the children get to create a simple but fun craft project to remind them of their day at VBS. As they do this, they are served a yummy and fun VBS snack.
Closing Assembly (Session 6) At the end of each day, the children are all re-convened into one large group for the closing assembly, which takes place in the same room where your opening assembly took place. The closing assembly includes:
	Praise & Worship Music At the start of the closing assembly, the worship leader or drama leader leads all of the children in singing worship songs such as those which have been provided on the VBS Music CD.
	Closing Skit Next, the second half of the drama skit for the day is performed for the children, reviewing what has been learned and concluding the story for that day of VBS.
	Gospel Presentation & Prayer Each day’s VBS skit includes an option to present the gospel to the children during the closing VBS skit, along with a closing prayer.