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[fcog_barnes]

Please help. I need to redo the children's church room's furniture. Right now we have metal chairs. I was thinking of bean bags, but I am afraid they will rip them. Any ideas???

Thanks, Robbie

[faithforce]

We have bean bags in our children's church and they haven't been a problem. We have the fabric and vinyl covered ones and I don't recommend the fabric

The kids seem to like them too.

[blondejon]

I've found that our kids use bean bags to make forts. They love them. Ikea is a great place to find furniture for children's church.

[fcog_barnes]

Thanks to all who posted. We ended up going with blue plastic chair with metal bottoms. The kids like in schools. They are working ok, but I still would like to do a reading section of the room in bean bags.

[jack2009]

A youth room ought to resemble a family room-complete with throw pillows, warm lamps, cushy rugs, coffee tables, comfy couches, coffee makers, and a refrigerator.
Display lots of photos. Buy or scrounge big collage photo frames so you can display lots of youth group photos-both fun and serious.

Showcase kids' creativity. Ask kids to donate their artistic efforts to decorate your room. Build a shelf to display their objects, replace CCM posters with their paintings and drawings, and hang a large bulletin board to tack up their photographs and poetry.

Do a Google search for images of stained glass, crosses, and other religious symbols (or search on Amazon.com )

Get creative with your lighting. Install dimmers on your lights, bring in lamps and turn off your overhead lighting, string Christmas lights, or set up floating candles around your room to set a tone that's warm, conversational, and relaxing.

Arrange every piece of furniture to fuel conversation. Arrange chairs in a circle so kids can face each other, or remove your chairs and replace them with beanbags or large pillows.

Create a prayer corner piled with carpets, pillows, Bibles, and journal pages.

Buy wallpaper that's made out of whiteboard material and create a "prayer wall." Pile a few dry-erase markers so teenagers can scribble prayers on the wall. You could divide the wall into separate sections: "lamentations," "cries of help," "needs," and "praises."

[Jerry Decker]

The important thing with Bean Bags is to not get them at an IKEA or something of that level of quality. Our church purchased 50 from www.saveyourchurchmoney.com from one of their manufacturers. The prices were less than the IKEAS and the level of quality is amazing.

[Tiara79]

We are also using bean bags and nothing bad happen so far . The kids love them and some teacher do too. We need to remodel the nursery room too, so we will need some cheaper furniture to get.