Wilderness Adventure Catholic VBS – Physical Kit + Digital Program

Take an exciting hike through the wilderness and learn more about the seven sacraments. Kids will enjoy the theme based lessons through catchy songs, games, crafts, snacks and more. Designed for groups of any size with participants ages 4-11.

Preview Director Guide and Theme Song:

$289.95 USD

75 in stock

Cat.Chat Vacation Bible School Program 2026

Wilderness Adventure Catholic VBS – Physical Kit + Digital Program

Gear up for a one-week hike through the wilderness and lead kids to discover amazing things about Baptism, Eucharist, Confirmation, Reconciliation, Anointing of the Sick, Marriage, and Holy Orders. The goal of this program is to help children better understand the seven sacraments and deepen their love for Jesus. The Cat.Chat Cathletics VBS is designed as an easy-to-use, flexible five-day program. Generally, summer programs run from Monday to Friday, approximately 9am to 12pm

75 in stock

What's Included

– 1 Director Guide

– 5 Station Leader Guide

– 2 Action Song DVDs

– 2 VBS Music CDs

– Digital Edition

– 6 Saint Cards

– 1 “Jesus I Need You” Prayer Card

– 1 VBS Advertising Poster.

You’ll have full digital access for up to 3 years.

After the 3-year access period ends, you can choose to renew and re-host the program for a fee equal to 30% of the current digital price. Renewal includes continued full access plus all updates, upgrades, and revisions.

Complete Digital Program

Complete Digital Program

The Digital Program is the complete online version of your VBS program, plus lots of Bonus Content not included in your Physical Kit. You'll get all the daily lesson plans, downloads, printables, VBS music, action songs, bible verse videos, and so much more, all from one convenient platform. Accessible from any device.

Station Leader Guides

Station Leader Guides

Each Station Guide empowers your leaders to run a successful station. Each Station leader will have 5 to 6 different activities that are theme-specific and relevant to the day's scripture, virtue of the day, saint of the day, and overall theme of the VBS. Your Station Leaders will also get access to the MY VBS platform, which contains additional activities, media, and support.

Director Guide

VBS Director Guide

Every kit comes equipt with your Director Guide. The Director Guide provides easy, step-by-step instructions on how to direct your parish VBS. Contains everything you need to prepare, plan and execute a successful VBS week.

Action Song Videos & Bible Verse Videos

Action Song Videos & Bible Verse Videos

The action songs are perfect for reinforcing each day's theme with praise, energy, and fun. It’s music so catchy that kids won’t even realize they’re learning important aspects of the Catholic with every move they make and every note they sing. The Bible verse songs are a perfect video companion to the Faith Station to help kids memorize the daily bible verse. These well-crafted songs will be a favourite for the kids and leaders.

Captivating Music

Captivating Music

These well-crafted, high-quality songs will encourage, teach, and engage your kids.

VBS Add-ons

VBS Add-ons

Practical take-home extras to keep VBS alive all year long.

How it works

A Typical Day at VBS

Each day, children will learn a different sacrament, beginning with baptism followed by The Sacrament of the Eucharist, Confirmation, Reconciliation and Anointing of the sick, and Matrimony & Holy Orders.

Generally, summer programs run from Monday to Friday, approximately 9am to 12pm.

Ideally, children should be divided into groups according to their age. The children will rotate between 5 Main Stations: Faith, Crafts, Games, Music, and Snacks. Adult and Teen Volunteers (Group Leaders) lead their group of children through the five different stations.

The Wilderness Adventure VBS program is specially designed to help kids and leaders explore, learn and grow in their Catholic faith. The goal of this program is to help children better understand the seven sacraments and deepen their love for Jesus.

25 Minutes
Opening Assembly
Arrival and music (Theme Song, Action Songs, etc.) Prayer, Welcome, Announcements, Virtue demonstration, Bible verse, and Skit. Every age group will start off at a different station. Groups will rotate to different stations.
25 Minutes
25 Minutes
Faith Station
In the Faith Station, kids learn about the VBS theme. Activities are carefully crafted to be engaging for kids to help make the Catholic Faith Come Alive.
25 Minutes
25 Minutes
Music Station
Standing up and dancing around, the kids and their leader follow the Action Song Videos, learning new, catchy, fun songs about each liturgical season. There are two themed songs and two action song videos for each day.
25 Minutes
25 Minutes
Games Station
It's all about moving around and playing super fun and inspiring games. Every activity in the Games Station is specifically designed to reinforce the virtue, theme and Bible Verse.
25 Minutes
25 Minutes
Craft Station
The Craft Station allows kids to learn a new skill and showcase their beautiful projects. The craft station activities are designed to be practical, fun and easy to learn for kids of all ages.
25 Minutes
25 Minutes
Snack Station
Snack Time. Each kid will have the opportunity to receive or create a fun snack. Every snack option is integrated with the theme of the day.
25 Minutes
25 Minutes
Closing Assembly
VBS songs, prayer, announcements, take-home items and clean up.
25 Minutes

Program Overview

Each day, the activities in this VBS program focus on a central theme and virtue. From the faith, snacks and crafts to the music and games, each activity is designed to reinforce the daily lesson and enhance the child’s faith learning experience.

What's New

Revised in 2023. The New Wilderness Adventure contains additional activities for each station, along with updated social media graphics, posters, and NEW Action Song videos.

Decorating

Looking for ideas on how to transform your parish hall or school gym into an amazing Wilderness Adventure? Here are a few ideas and pictures to get you started!

Preview VBS Media

Helping You Lead a Successful VBS

Along with your Director Guide and station Leader Guides, you will have access to digital videos to help you run a successful VBS. Each video is carefully crafted to fit the theme of each day.

Action Song Videos

Your VBS program includes two Action Song videos per day. The action song videos allow your kids to learn the action to each song of the VBS Music.

All kit options include 10 Action Song Videos. The physical kit option and VBS Plus also receive a DVD.

Preview Action Song Video.

Action Song Video Example

Bible Verse Videos

Each VBS program includes a Bible Verse related to the theme for each day.

The Bible Verse is integrated throughout all the VBS stations.

As part of teaching children scripture, the Faith Station leader can decide to present a Bible Verse Video to the children.

Here is an example of the Bible Verse Video for Day 1.

Bible Verse Video Example

Leader Support Videos

Each station has a 5 to 10 minute Leader Support Video to help your leaders run a successful station.

Leader Support Video Example

Sample VBS Music

“My kids love Cat.Chat. Since we’ve been introduced to it, it has become regular listening almost every time we’re in the car. The tunes are catchy and the lessons learned are inspiring. Cat.Chat is a wonderful tool to help parents and kids grow together in their love and appreciation for the richness of our Catholic faith.”

Christopher West
Catholic Speaker and Author

Theme Song

Hike of My Life

Day 2

The Ultimate One

Day 4

River of Life

Day 1

Celebrate Jesus

Day 3

I Love You Lord

Day 5

Jump In

When you place your order, you should receive two emails: one with your receipt and another with the link and password to access your online digital program.

Talk to a real person.  One of our VBS consultants would be happy to take your call  1-866-286-5433 or email: catholickids@catchat.ca

Yes, you will have the benefit of having both the physical/hard copy resources, plus access to the digital platform (all the digital files) to share with your VBS team leaders.

The price is an advantage: you save $30, plus there are no shipping and handling fees. The disadvantage in going with digital-only: you have no hard copy books or items to work with.

After completing your purchase, you will receive a link and password to access your VBS program materials. Please save these for future access to the program.

If you are a station leader, please contact the person in your parish who ordered the VBS program. At the time of purchase, they received an email with a simple step-by-step guide and the access password.

Yes, we can bill your parish if you have permission to do so from your priest or business manager.
 
Your parish will not be charged taxes on your order.
 
 

Item Content

We recommend  Wilderness Adventure or Cathletics as a good starting point.
Yes, we have special bulk pricing on our CDs, saint cards and prayer cards.
 

Select Priority in the store, at the time of checkout. Overnight Shipping is not available.

Approximately 1 volunteer for every 5 or 6 kids
 

We suggest a variety of age-appropriate activities throughout our VBS programs. The music, action song videos and Bible verse videos are very suitable for preschoolers.  
We would suggest you sample day 1  of the VBS program themes that interest you. You can sample each of the leader guides, music and videos. This should give you a good idea if our programs meet your specific needs for the preschoolers  in your parish.

We have made your job much easier with the online resources we’ve created: printable registration forms, posters,  editable parent newsletters,  Facebook Ads, etc.
 

Yes, as an add-on, you can purchase the Take Home Digital package which gives you the license to share the music, videos and more with your VBS families. Check out  VBS Resources in the store.

Yes. When you purchase the program, a variety of t-shirt logos are included in digital format, at no extra cost.
 
 

Leader Guide Samples & Resources

Click on the link below to download the sample.

Customer Reviews

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Mrs. H
"Engaging and not to mention FAITHFUL to Church Doctrine and Teaching!”
Terri N.
"This was a wonderful program! The kids loved it, the parents loved it and even the volunteers loved it. I would recommend this to any parish. You can count on us to do it again next year!"
Julene R.

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