I've found a TON of super cute armor of God pictures. My current plan is to pick one, print it to the size I need and then draw or add the extra pieces that aren't included. Not like "free hand because I'm such a great artist" draw. It'll be more like I can handle "drawing a few lines to at least loosely resemble a cape" draw. And I figured for the knee pads, I can probably cut the shoes and shin guard looking things in half and use the shin guards (does anyone know what they're actually called?) for the knee pads. Which only leaves gloves and the title of liberty which I figure I can muddle my way through also.
1. This first set has both a boy and a girl, more realistic that I found on Pinterest. I can't figure out where they originated. When I click on the link it says something about the link being bad. So click the link above to view the pictures to give yourself some ideas.
2. The next set is more cartoon-like and I found them on cute family home evening blog. If you click on the picture (on the family home evening blog it gets much bigger and would be better for printing. The only downside to this one is you have to draw your own cute guy/girl to go underneath it.
3. This set is meant to be a magnetic quiet book page and you can look at it here. The guy is really pretty cute, but the dpi isn't too high so I'm not sure what it would look like if you tried to make it big enough to print out for a poster.
4. I found these cute boy and girl Armor of God dress up dolls to purchase here. On the plus side, because you would be downloading them (as opposed to either a copy and paste or a direct save from a blog), the dpi would be high enough that they would look better than some of the others after you'd made them big enough for a poster board. But for me, the negative side is that they are more cartoon-ish, they sort of remind of Elmer Fudd from Bugs Bunny.
5. This blog has some cute ideas for actually dressing up the kids. In fact, my husband had a great idea (that I can't figure out a way to actually do) to purchase a dress up outfit (like this one here). None of the ones I've found have all of the parts, but you could probably fill in with what it doesn't come with from home (for example, we have capes, knee pads and gloves just floating around at my house). The part I'm not certain of is displaying it...if I had some sort of mannequin or something similar, maybe. But I don't and can't think of a way to have it up every Sunday, which I really want to do.
6. There's also this super cute armor of god girl from Melonheadz (if you've never gotten on her website before, you should, there is so much stinkin' cute clipart). She even has a boy, too. With both of these, you'd have to print one the size you wanted and then trace their bodies (excluding the armor) to get your pre-girl or boy. Then cut out all the different pieces from what you originally printed (hopefully that made as much sense typed out as it did in my head). You'd have to color it, too, but it might be fun to personalize it. Or you could even color it in photoshop (or something similar) before printing if you have access to it.
7. Last but not least, I found another more realistic guy here. It already has all the different pieces separated so you can just print them out. It seems much simpler than some of the other options and it even looks pretty good.
Maybe my problem is too many options (sorry if I just passed that problem along to you), I'm sure I'll get over it soon. Mostly because the year is just about up and I don't have any other options. :) I'll make sure to post about (and maybe even take a picture or two) of my guy or girl when I get it finished.
Before I go, I have one more amazing idea to share with you. It's one I got from a lovely lady who saw my previous post. Janet said, "I had a thought, maybe you already thought of this, but I always like to
give the children an action item or challenge, depending on the month's
theme you can challenge them- for example with the sword of truth-
challenge them to read the scriptures and gain truth.... with the
gauntlets/gloves- challenge them to serve their family..... with the
kneepads- to pray.... etc" I hadn't thought of it and just in case you hadn't either, I wanted to share.
If any of you have any other great ideas to go along with the Armor of God theme or if you already have yours done, I'd love to hear all about them! If you're in the same boat as me, good luck on finding what will work best for you and your primary!
You can find my first post about 2013 Armor of God outline here.
Update 12/27/2012: I finally chose my Armor of God Guy and added my own pieces, you can read about it here.
Update 12/27/2012: I finally chose my Armor of God Guy and added my own pieces, you can read about it here.
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