Monster Question

Jabin from Croasroads Farm in Reading, MI  Our theme this year is “Monster Questions that eat your faith, and the answers that tame them”

The inspiration was to wow our students and give them the “Monster Question.” After brainstorming, we concluded that if we could turn our stage into a monster, then it would be as if the speaker is presenting God’s word from the mouth of it. What better way to do that then with teeth!

The teeth are made out of coroplast we bought from a sign company owned by a grandparent of one of our students. Rural ministry right! Everyone knows everybody. The entire design took 10 total 4’ x 8’ sheets of it.

Each tooth took about an hour to make, but once I had a system, i was able to make every section in bulk. I cut the face of each tooth to have foldable tabs on the sides, and then hot glued everything together. Super glue is much easier and less time consuming, but is more expensive.

After i finished the teeth, I laid out some supernight LED 4 pin strips and lit each one with it. The LEDs are wired to a dmx-LED decoder. They are programmed into each of our presets. In addition to the teeth, the drum riser has more coroplast underneath of it, to give the “mouth” a tongue with some bar lights underneath.

The top row of teeth are held up by some 14 guage electric fence wire I found at Tractor Supply Co. and bound to the same i bolts that hold up our main speakers.

The question marks were copied from the same font as the poster, and done by hand by a few of our awesome students!

All the coroplast was cut with a coroplast cutting tool found on amazon.

The overall budget (guestimated)
10 sheets of coroplast at $11 a sheet = $111
Gorilla hot glue stick pack x 1 = $8
Fence wire = $16
5 strips of LED = $50
2 dmx decoders = $160
Various wires and adapters = $10
Coroplast/cardboard cutter = $30
                                          Total: $380