discovery canyon hats

We are doing the VBS Discovery Canyon theme this year. We usually seperate the groups by age and also seperate groups by color coded hats/bandanas/etc.... I am stumped this year on what to do with that. Last year we did different colored adventure hat for the rainforest. Any suggestions???

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Permalink Reply by Roxanna Clower on March 29, 2009 at 10:34pm: I am thinking of using the inexpensive foam visors from Oriental Trading. They are only $4/doz.
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Permalink Reply by Indie on April 3, 2009 at 11:36am: We were going to separate each group into one of the animals. We have five age groups so it works well. Maybe we could make animal hats or something???; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Kathy Johnson on April 27, 2009 at 10:55pm: Either bandanas or 'bucket' hats would be appropriate for a canyon hike. Either would cost about $1 each.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Don Kick on May 12, 2009 at 6:32pm: What about inexpensive T-Shirts, with a different color for each group? Check out www.vbsTshirts.com; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Kelly Beth on August 6, 2009 at 8:40am: We did bandanas. The kids have their names on them in sharpie as well. All the team members have purple bandanas with a ribbon border the color of their class.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Linda Meeks on August 8, 2009 at 8:04pm: We did tye die bandanas. They could be color coded.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Kathy Johnson on August 9, 2009 at 11:43am: We did bandanas. We got cotton fabric and cut it into (about) 18" squares and the kids decorated them the first night, mostly by stamping. We put each kid's name with Sharpie on an edge or corner. A little raveling really wasn't an issue but you could have the kids run a glue stick or paint some clear or colored glue around the edges if you were concerned.

The first night everyone got a stick-on name tag at registration and then after that, their bandana was their name tag. The canyon guides (small gorup leaders) collected them at the end of each night and passed them out again at the next so they didn't get left at home.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by David Root on August 9, 2009 at 2:48pm: We use clear plastic name-tag holders -- available at any stationary store, or Wal-mart -- with different colour card stock inserts; a different colour for each age group.

They are collected at the end of each day, then handed back out the next morning.; ▶ Reply to This