Free Vacation Bible Camp Curriculums from UTO

Five Days Filled With Science, Gratitude, Good News, and Fun for All Ages

Gratitude Rocks! Featuring Five Days of Activities focused on the Eucharist, Geology, and Gratitude

About Gratitude Rocks

This free curriculum contains 5 days of Vacation Bible Camp programming that can be used for a full or half day event. And if you do half days, it can be used for two years. Each daily theme features a Bible story, a popular children’s book, stations: STEAM, geology, gratitude, movement/games, crafts, liturgy/music, and a snack-tivity.

 

We’re not done with this rock party yet! Here are a few things coming soon:

 

  • For Gratitude Rocks, UTO partnered with Godly Play to create new stores about heroes of the Christian faith to use alongside Gratitude Rocks. Those stories are currently being written and will be added by June 1, 2027.
  • We’ve also created some fun sticker sheets to decorate crafts, mark the field guide, set up leaders booklets and more. These will be available in our shop starting in January of 2027.
  • We created a middle school program! Gone are the days of your middle schoolers taking over the projects, we’ve got special activities just for them found as an “expansion” on each activity or set up as a separate program to run alongside your Camp, as a separate camp, or to use as a program during the school year for this awesome group of young people.
Coming Soon: Godly Play Stories for Gratitude Rocks
Coming Soon: Order Stickers!

Middle School Materials

Middle Schoolers love Science and Camp! If you have Middle Schoolers we've got you covered - at camp, at youth group, or on their own.
Coming Soon

Get Your Free Resources Here

Gratitude Rocks has individual guides for each leader which you can access by clicking on the area images below.

 

We recommend starting with our Director’s Guide, which we’ve paired with a “field guide” template in Canva that you can make a copy of and edit daily letters to families, a field guide for your geologists, and more.

Download the Director's Guide Here
Access the Field Guide Canva Template to copy and adapt for your context
Elephant Toothpaste
STEAM Mentos and coke
Big Group Gathering Gratitude
Small Group Signs
Big Gathering
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Imprint Fossils
STEAM
Making bath salts
Instructed Eucharist
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English Muffins
volcano building
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Geology
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Gratitude Station
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Waves of Gratitude Featuring Five Days of Activities focused on Baptism, Water, and Gratitude

About Waves of Gratitude

This free curriculum contains 5 days of Vacation Bible Camp programming that can be used for a full or half day event. Each daily theme features a Bible story, a popular children’s book, music, and six stations: STEAM, water, gratitude, movement/games, crafts, and a snack-tivity.

 

Waves of Gratitude has five primary resources:

  1. Curriculum Guide,
  2. Director’s Guide,
  3. Daily Overviews,
  4. Participant’s Passport, and
  5. Additional/Supplemental resources to help you succeed (found in the file containing the full program).

You can download the full program by clicking the button below.

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Waves of Gratitude - Craft
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Waves of Gratitude Craft
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tie dye with markers
bubble art
egg carton whale
egg carton crabs
oobleck
fake snow
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planter
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squirter
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Follow-Up

If you use Waves of Gratitude or Gratitude Rocks, we hope you’ll come back and share with us your thoughts on the program and a photo or two!

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