"BASIC GOSPEL MESSAGES WITH BALLOONS" is Jelly Bean's book on ministry ideas and sermonettes, each based on an easy animal balloon sculpture. Here's an example using a Giraffe balloon (just like a beginner basic dog with a long neck!):

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"The giraffe is yellow with brown spots. This is his camoflage so he cannot be readily seen among the trees and leaves. Sometimes we let "spots" get in our lives - not "skinspots" but "sinspots" and these can also act like camoflage as they make us look like others who have sin in their lives. God wants us to live a spotless life. The blood of Jesus came to cleanse us and remove our spots and blemishes so we can stand out and stand up for what we believe in. Christians should also practice a form of camoflage. As you read the word, pray, and have close Christian friends, these will act as a camoflage against sin and bad friends and bad habits. The closer you are to God, the more you are hidden in Him and the more He will protect you. You will not be easily tempted, and God will provide a way of escape for you much like camoflage helps wild animals escape from their enemies."

Jelly Bean is available to teach classes for your church conference, church camp, or clown convention on the following subjects:
CLOWN MINISTRY
1. Insights into Clown Ministry - Types of ministry and gospel clowning, opportunities, ideas for different venues, using clown skills to effectively impart a spiritual message.

2. Writing Clown Ministry Skits - How to develop clown ministry skits working around a theme, using a concordance, incorporating clown props, slapstick, music, and developing a complete presentation.

3. Laughter is Good Medicine - A look at the gentle qualities of a caring clown: the clown who makes a special visit to the terminally ill child, the loving birthday clown who takes the time to build up a child's self-esteem, the heart of a clown that reaches out in response to those in nursing homes, hospitals, special-education centers, prisons. Includes a look at tried-and-true routines for the caring clown.

4. Developing a Clown Ministry Program - Several techniques to organize various skits and bits, plus bridges and music, into a complete performance. Discussion of card categories, concepts, and wheel-of-whatnots.

5. Basic Gospel Messages With Balloons - Sermonettes, skits, and bits using basic balloon sculptures - effective for clown ministry programs, bus ministry, street clowning, for the beginner balloonist through the advanced preacher.

BECOMING A CLOWN
6. Clown Course - (6 sessions) Instructions in Whiteface, Auguste, and Tramp Makeup, Character Development, Clown Names, and Basic Clown Costuming with Accessories with costuming tricks and tips for the beginning clown using coordinated accessories you design and make yourself.

7. Character Development - The Secret to Good Clowning - First, a look at the "real" you, which is then combined with the traditional clown personalities, and finally exercises to show the internal character in an external way.

8. Clown Ethics - A study in the ethics of clowning to avoid being a "space invader". Includes ideas on business and performance integrity and commitment.

CREATING CLOWN SKITS
9. Elements of Laughter - A discussion of types of comedy techniques for creating humor, creativity, and developing skits. These elements are used to show how several classic skits can be done "funnier".

10. Creating Clown Skits - How to use a Morphological Grid to begin to get ideas, then incorporating creativity with jokes, stories, props, input from TV shows, and other areas to put it all together.

CLOWN SHOWS
11. How to Produce a Show - How to organize a show for your clown group, planning the theme, packing the props, handling all the details, keeping records, as well as how to organize your own individual shows using the same techniques.

12. Audience Involvement - How to involve the entire audience in your entertainment, establishing an atmosphere of friendship, working with a multi-level age group, as well as how to fully utilize an assistant brought on stage.

13. Suitcase Circus - Shows how 10 skits for 2 persons or more, plus a sound system, plus face painting, plus balloons, all pack into an overnight size suitcase and pack small but play big. Skits include King Bee, Palm Reader, Bandanna Banana, Whipmaster, Mary had a Little Lamb, Three Eggs, Long Distance, Sharpshooter Game, and Balloons for Sale, Mind Reading Card Trick. (Requires both Jelly Bean and Pixie to lecture)

14. The Business of Birthday Parties - How to book a show, keep records, develop the party for different ages and sizes of group, promoting yourself on a budget, developing your show as a business, with emphasis on the show itself and tried and true routines.

OTHER CLOWN SKILLS
15. Beginning Balloon Sculptures -This class is aimed at teaching the beginner. Techniques on inflating a balloon and designs of a progressive nature teaching at least 10 different sculptures.

16. Face Painting Fun - A basic class in face painting covering supplies, crowd control, and how to paint including popular cartoon characters and designs. Anyone can learn to paint these characters after understanding the geometric shapes involved. Includes discussion of other techniques, jewels, set-ups, and accessories.

17. Walkarounds That Work - A variety of props and gags that provide a quick laugh, separated into categories as Visual Puns or Wordplays, Oversize Props, Third Arm Walkarounds, Props with Patter, Two Person Visual Gags, Novelty Costumes, Running Gags, Feats of Skill, and Special Effects.

18. Improv in Reverse - A class to teach you how to improvise as you go using props and actions. The word "improv" may indicate spontaneous action, but learning through examples and experiences stored .in your memory bank will give you the ideas to draw upon.

19. Storytelling Techniques - Learn how to use the ancient art of storytelling to theme your show and weave your different clown kills into a cohesive program, how to make your show unique, and how to personalize your entertainment for each customer.

20. Personalizing Patter for Prestidigitation - Take a favorite magic trick, add a liberal dose of storytelling, stir in your clown creativity, and develop a routine that is yours alone and will make your clown stand out in a crowd.

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