Tip of the Day! Hanging Visual Aids!

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Suspended/Drop Ceilings

Dealing with suspended ceilings can be a challenge. I have seen people try to hang something by going up and over the medal that holds each piece of the ceiling in place, but it seemed to me there had to be a better solution than this.  

I always love it if there is something I can use that I have on hand, so I tried my trusty paper clip and it worked! The large medal ones work very well but the smaller ones will work if that is all you have.

Instructions:

Take a large paper clip and bend it out halfway making an “L” shape.

 Insert the longer end of the paper clip into one side of the metal strip in the ceiling. 

(It should slide in fairly easy.)

 To hang visual aid with string, put a loop in the end of the string and hang onto the extended part of the paper clip. 

                  

     Surprising how much weight these little clips can hold! I use them all the time! Sometimes I even use two paper clips together if the weight is a little heavy. 

     To reinforce a hole punched in a visual aid for string insertion, add a piece of clear packing tape to the back of the visual where you plan to punch the hole. 

     Punch the hole through the visual aid plus the packing tape. 
This will help the visual aid have less chance of ripping.

(At the time I was trying to figure out my dilemma, I had no idea there were hooks made especially for this type of ceiling, but here is one that seem perfect for the job! To order, click on the hook below!)

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Jesus Heals a Paralytic!

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Room Décor - Using the Ceiling!

Matthew 9:2-8

Mark 2:1-12

Luke 5:17-26

What wonderful friends this man had to take him to Jesus! 

Little did he know his sins were going to be forgiven as well! 

Jesus is truly AMAZING! 

Here I am making a visual aid to use to portray the hole in the roof and the man’s 4 friends looking down inside the room where Jesus was talking. 

This particular visual aid is made of  3 pieces of bulletin board paper. 

One blue, one white, and one brown all the same size.

1. Take the brown paper and draw what looks like a jagged hole highlighting the edges of the hole with a black sharpie marker. The hole in the roof needs to be made smaller than the white paper. 

2. Cut the outside edge of the "hole" only. 

3. Without cutting the inside of the "hole" yet, glue this brown piece with the cut outside edges onto the top of a white piece of bulletin board paper. (Be sure to glue the area of the jagged edge well for the brown center will end up being cut out.) This white paper is supposed to look like the ceiling of the house. I could have made the ceiling brown as well but thought a contrasting color would make the hole stand out best.

4. When cutting out the center of the brown paper along the inside edge that has been glued on top of the white paper, you are actually cutting the 2 layers - white with the brown.  This cutting will make the hole in the roof. 

5. Glue blue paper to the back of the white paper. This will be the sky that shows through the hole in the roof. 

6. Trim the visual aid edge all the way around so it is nice and neat looking.

7. Cut a few clouds from white paper and glue them to the front of the blue paper so you can see them in the sky through the roof.

8. Print the friends' faces at the Gold Star below! Glue them onto the blue paper close to the edge of the roof hole.

9. Before punching holes for hanging into the visual aid edge, reinforce each hole placement with clear packing tape on the back, then punch hole. 

10. Use fishing line or heavy string to hang. 

(See how to hang visual aids from a suspended ceiling here.)

A “Gold Star” Just for you!! 

Click on the gold star for access to print the faces!!

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Singing Praises!

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La, la, la, la-a-a

In some of my online searches,

 I came across this "little gem". 

Just click the musical notes below!

Thank you North West Church of Christ!

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