So you’ve found your puppets or made your puppets. You know that you’d like to use them with your group, but… what exactly are they going to say ? You’re not quite ready yet to launch into a full scale puppet play. Why not begin by making an announcement or introduce someone to the children [...]
I have just posted my new short Christmas puppet ( or vent) script. It’s called “Carolling Christmas”. Ricky can’t get to sleep because he has Christmas carols going around in his head. He comes to hear about the Nativity and gets excited that God’s son has come to earth. Carolling Christmas script.
A few years ago I wrote a small 12 page PDF booklet called Christmas is Coming! It includes a number of original Christmas puppet scripts, stories and chants. It’s available for download for $10 USD via PayPal. I also have a number of other Christmas scripts and stories available free at Eliab.com
Skits for Fun and Learning: Helping Children Learn, Love and Live the Word of God Ann Shorb has written a number of scripts/skits that can be used with puppets or acted out by children. These scripts are great for use in churches or at home with your children. This book contains 15 scripts/skits that can [...]
Christianskitsscripts.com offers a wide range of free puppet and drama scripts. The random musings blog page has loads of great ideas on writing scripts. Dramatic License uses wit and wisdom to make the Bible come alive through creative, funny and thought-provoking short-form dramatic scripts. Churches and other Christian organizations use theirs scripts to bring the [...]
Our church is gearing up for our annual children’s holiday club (vacation bible school) in our July school holidays. This year we are following an Olympic Games theme and bible passages from Luke’s gospel. If you are looking for material to use for your Sunday School or children’s club could I recommend two excellent resources [...]
A simple puppet script I wrote a couple of years ago for an all-age Pentecost service might be of interest to someone who is planning to use puppets. What a gift ! at Eliab.com
A new website which uses a YouTube type interface has just been launched for puppet videos. You may find some ideas and practical instruction on using puppets amongst the videos on offer. PuppetMaddness.com
Some guidelines for writing puppet scripts- 1. Have your aim clearly before you. Many Christian script writers fail to execute their aim and end up producing a nice story with no Christian content. 2. Many people these days have little or no co concept of sin, right and wrong etc… so pre-evangelism might be attempted [...]
Cut out figures of persons and objects (from magazines, newspapers, Sunday School resources) and mount them on cardboard. Then attach string to the cutouts and make a small loop at the end so that a finger can easily be slipped through it. Use the string puppets to act out dramas taken from the Bible or [...]
I have just posted my new skit that I wrote for our Children’s Christmas Eve Service. Feel free to use it if it suits your setting. It’s called Christmas Bulletin.
I have posted a few photos from our MOPS (Mothers Of PreSchoolers) children’s program. I used a sheep puppet (Baaanabas) and a camel puppet (Kismit) to tell some of the Christmas story to the young children.
20 Ways to use puppets to teach a memory verse 1. Teach the puppet the verse. 2.The puppet can teach the verse to the children. 3. Use the puppets to teach the meaning. 4. Use puppets to emphasise the main theme words. 5. Use puppets to explain difficult words -eg. puppet pronounces hard or unusual [...]
Two simple puppet plays to do with ‘light’ which require either two puppets of one puppet and a puppeteer. Light Up My Life. Salt & LightÂ
I have just posted a short puppet play that I have written to be part of our Worship Service on Father’s Day. I know it won’t be relevant in some parts of the world at this time but you might like to bookmark it for use next year. I have already posted a story/monologue that [...]
