This year’s Club held at St. James’ Church of Scotland, Lossiemouth, will be Full Armour – 24 to 28 July 2023 – again led by Out of the Box (Scotland).
Last year’s Showstoppers Holiday Club was based on material published by Scripture Union but this time we’re going to use a theme devised by Out of the Box (“OOTB”), themselves (as for Navigate – in 2019).
Full Armour is holiday club material OOTB wrote based around their Full Armour short film.
It focuses on the Armour of God, with each day looking at a different piece of armour. Each day kids will also make armour, building it up until the end of the week when they get to take them all home.
OOTB have done this holiday club, and used the Full Armour video with a number of churches already.
They will be running this holiday club with four different churches this summer.
Apart from the craft element, the focus is really not on the weaponry but what it symbolises.
We will focus on Truth, Faith, Salvation, the Spirit and Peace.
Each day the craft will be elements of the armour. The children will leave their craftwork at the church each day as they build up their armour. After each craft, the plan is to take a photo of them as a group, then they take it all off straight away.
If you’re concerned this might be more of a “boys'” holiday club than a “girls'” holiday club, Chris Watt of OOTB’s comments are reassuring:
“My experience is the girls got into the designing of the armour as much as the boys, if not more, actually – as they create cool and creative designs etc..”
Chris Watt of Out of the Box
This seems to be borne out by the photos of previous Holiday Clubs on this theme which OOTB have kindly provided to us (see below).
These crafty activities will be in addition to the usual shenanigans involving action songs, puppets, Bible stories, games, challenges – and juice / snacks.
The club will be open to Primary school children.
At the lower age level, this means children who, by July 2023, have completed Primary 1 (it does not include children who will be starting P1 in August 2023).
The club will be open to any child (within the age range mentioned above) and free to attend.
It will run from 10:00am to 12:00 noon, Monday to Friday.
However, places may have to be limited. The room we use for the Club has a capacity of 60, including all the adult helpers. (From our previous experience with Holiday Clubs, we do not expect to be oversubscribed but you never know).
How do you register your child’s interest in attending?
If you would like to download a registration form for completion and return, here is a linked image of the form, below – i.e. click on it and it will (immediately) download the necessary Form in Word format (with the same appearance as the image below but better).
If you have any questions at all, please contact us via the website.
