Alta McDaniel


Ask, Seek, Knock		Let your light shine
Spring The scripture is: See! The winter is past; the rains are over and gone. Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come, the cooing of doves is heard in our land. Song of Solomon 2:11-12 I printed the SPRING letters on Microsoft Word, and made them each one page (do this by typing 400 or so in the font size box). I usually print them as "outline" so I don't waste ink, then use them as a pattern to cut the letters out of construction paper. I used a large plate as a pattern for the green circles behind the letters. The flowers are just petals cut from gold and white and stapled at the center to the board. I curled the edges a little to add dimension. Then I just covered the staple "mess" in the middle with a flower center. The geometric circle was made with a "Homemade" compass by pinning a string to the center of the circle, and a tie a pencil tot he other end where you want the radius. I just drew the circle right onto the bulletin board paper. Then I stapled white string round the circle and to make the divisions. I used double sided foam stickers to add white glass beads (flat on one side) around the circle in even spacing.
Spring	VBS		VBS
Footprints I went to a hobby store and bought 24 sheets of scrapbook paper that looked like sand. (I got 2 kinds so I could create a different border. The sea blue is another scrapbook paper. If you look around you can find it for about .25 per sheet on sale. (I just got a bunch at Hobby Lobby). If you look closely at the picture, you can see the 81/2 x 11 pieces of paper that made up the poem. I created it in Publisher (they size of the BB), then printed it off on individual sheets and glued them together. The titles were printed the same way ( I planned one per sheet), then just tore around the edge of the sheet. For the footprint - I made my own stamps (left and right!!) with a piece of cardboard and some of that sheet foam. I just cut the foot and toe shapes and glued them on the cardboard, then dipped it in brown craft paint.
Wedding	Easter
Easter - He is Alive I covered the board in light green paper. The image came from the Annie Armstrong Campaign one year (a missions campaign for Baptists at Easter). I just traced the image on a transparency and cut it out of purple. I backed the area of the flower with white, and added a yellow cut out center. I used purple velvet ribbon for the border with a touch of ivy.
Faith Board FAITH is an evangelism strategy we use at our Church. The five steps are the starters we use when sharing the gospel with someone. See http://www.lifeway.com/lwc/mainpage/0%2C1701%2CM%25253D200736%2C00.htm l for more info. The five starters are: F is for FORGIVENESS. We cannot have eternal life and heaven without God’s forgiveness. Ephesians 1:7a A is for AVAILABLE. Forgiveness is available. It is available for all, but it is not automatic. John 3:16; Matthew 7:21a I is for IMPOSSIBLE. It is impossible for God to allow sin into heaven. God is love and just, but man is sinful. John 3:16; James 2:13a; Romans 3:23 T is for TURN. Turn means repent. You must turn from sin and self , and trust Christ only. Luke 13:3b; 1 Corinthians 15:3b-4; Romans 10:9 H is for HEAVEN. Heaven is eternal life, both here and in the hereafter. John 10:10b; John 14:3; Romans 10:9
Names of Jesus I started cutting the names out, but got really tired, really fast. I then found that if I printed them reversed (black background, white letters) on colored paper, that they blended in fine with the black bulletin board paper, as long as I didn't leave a lot of the black around the letters (I just cut around the word, leaving about 1/2-3/4 of an inch.) If I were to do it again, I now have a really cool tool called a Cricut cutter, that cuts letters up to 6" out from a computer program. It's really neat! Michael's Crafts has them, and sometimes runs a sale or will let you use a demo machine to cut out letters for a small fee. good luck!!
Fall	Fall
Happy Fall Ya'll I used brown wrapping paper for the background, and blue construction paper for the shirt. The head and hands are made from a piece of a rubber mat you put under carpets to keep them from slipping. The hat was black felt, and the “straw” was yellow construction paper, cut into strips (part way up the paper) I bought 1/2 yard of several country looking fabrics ($1.00 - $2.00 yd. at Walmart) and cut them into 3” x 4” pieces for the border. I glued them to long strips of brown wrapping paper to make it easy to put up, but you could just staple them up. I used 4- 9” x 12” rectangles of cloth for the paper fliers (made on my computer), and just replaced the fliers weekly as the month went on to make various announcements.
Fall I got the idea from 2 clip art graphics from word. I have attached them for your use. I didn’t like the snowflake, so I added some maple leaves. I enlarged them using Publisher, then printed them on scrap paper. I used these “patterns” to cut the shapes from colored paper. The thing that really attracted me to this design was the muted fall colors. I went to a scrapbook paper store and looked for fall colors. I also found a construction paper package in our parent teacher store that is used for different “skin tones” for people. It worked great!! If I were to do it again, I’d make my letters smaller. (Also – our minister corrected me – it’s Psalm not Psalms!!)
Christmas - Joy to the World Board I printed the letters using Microsoft Publisher on 8 1/2 x 11 green paper, then taped them together and cut them out. To do this, open Publisher to a blank page, then go to File-Page Setup. Choose Custom Size, and then type in the height and width of your bulletin board. You then have a blank page the size of your bulletin board to work on. Using Text Art, type what you want, and choose the font. Then you can stretch it to the size you want on your board. I usually plan out the rest of my board using the drawing tools and color. I save the plan, then delete all but the letters (don't want to waste ink!) and print. DON"T SAVE THIS FILE UNLESS YOU USE "SAVE AS" OR YOU WILL OVERWRITE YOUR ORIGINAL FILE. If you don't know how to use Publisher, you can print your letters on a transparency (available at any teacher store; make sure to get printable kind) then use an overhead projector to project them onto a wall where you have taped green bulletin board paper. Then just cut them out and staple them to your white bulletin board paper! I just drew and cut out the candles, but I got the idea from a Microsoft Word clip art picture. Then I just added some gold ribbon and voila! it was done!
Christmas	Truth Decay		Revival
Winter - Snowman I used blue Christmas wrapping paper to cover to board and cut out the snowman from white bulletin board paper. To add some dimension, I used black felt for the hat, material for the scarf, silk flowers on hat, and paper nose. I printed the letters about 5" high on white paper on my computer in outline style (white inside, with black outline) then cut them out. (See Joy to the World directions for how I do this and get large letters) The snowflakes were cut by hand like we learned in kindergarten! Just fold a square of paper in half three times, then cut a design and un-fold. You could also use Snowflake doilies. The heart was printed on my computer, using a red background and white letters. You could easily use construction paper and cut out the letters. Traditional white bulletin board border finished off my Winter message!
Announcement	Train up a Child		Faith
40 Days of Purpose I used blue bulletin board paper for the background, then used 4 or five coordinating “gold or sand looking” scrapbook papers for the words on the left, and frames. I just printed the 5 smaller words and the white phrase directly on the scrapbook paper with my color printer. The decorations down the side are gold and orange cardstock (scrapbook type) that is torn on one edge. I used a woven jute braid (about ½” wide) down the side of the orange papers. I printed the large letters using Microsoft Publisher on several sheets of 8 1/2 x 11 scrap paper, then I tape them together and use them as patterns to cut the letters out of cardstock. To do this, open Publisher to a blank page, then go to File-Page Setup. Choose Custom Size, and then type in the height and width of your bulletin board. You then have a blank page the size of your bulletin board to work on. Using Text Art, choose the white letters with black outline, type what you want, and choose the font. Then you can stretch it to the size you want on your board. I usually plan out the rest of my board using the drawing tools and color. I save the plan, then delete all but the letters (don't want to waste ink!) and print. DON"T SAVE THIS FILE UNLESS YOU USE "SAVE AS" OR YOU WILL OVERWRITE YOUR ORIGINAL FILE. If you don't know how to use Publisher, you can print your letters on a transparency (available at any teacher store; make sure to get printable kind) then use an overhead projector to project them onto a wall where you have taped bulletin board paper. Then just cut them out and staple them to your bulletin board!
John 3:16 (original) I got the idea from CrossDaily.com I covered the BB in yellow paper, then stapled strips of orange paper of various widths across the board. I printed the words on about 4-5 orange pieces of paper, 11” tall, then taped together for one of the strips. I enlarged the graphic, and printed the outline on paper, then cut it out of black construction paper. If you don’t have a computer able to do this, trace the outline on a transparency, and use an overhead projector to project the image larger on the wall (covered with black paper, of course). Trace the image and cut out. The hills are easy – just cut them. The sun was a dark orange circle, and I printed John 3:16 on the paper before I cut the circle.
Instruction	Trust in the Lord
Knee-Mail	Lighthouse		7-Ups in Life
I Am the Vine	Valentines / Love		Love
31. Heart of Worship / Valentine I used the idea of a quilt, and used various pink, white and red, scrapbook papers (12 x 12). You can draw the stitching on with a white marker (scrapbooking store) or black marker if you want. The letters were printed with Publisher (could use Word) in about 450 font size on scrap paper, then cut out. I now have a Cricut cutter that will cut letters up to 6" high - it makes it soo much easier. I cut the heart from a large piece of red poster paper. Red wrapping paper also works well.

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