Puppetry Zone
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Puppets remain the #1 ministry tool for engaging, entertaining, and educating kids. The simple fact is, KIDS LOVE PUPPETS, and while other teaching techniques come and go, puppets are here to stay! Here you will find help for puppet teams as well as solo puppeteers. See Also: Introduction to Solo Puppeteering #1 Rated Puppet Script: |
Level | Title | Topic | |
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Time to Get Up
Treat Sunday as a special day. Get to bed early on Saturday so you'll be ready to serve and worship the Lord on Sunday. |
Psalm 122, Sunday is a Special Day | ||
Time to Talk
Try to please God in everything you do. |
Pleasing God | ||
Time to Walk on the Water
We have faith in God even though we can't see Him. |
Matthew 14:22-33, Faith | ||
Too Many Michaels
God knows all of His children. |
Psalm 8, God's knowledge | ||
TP puppets! (cheap and effective)
TP roll puppets - simple but fun! |
puppets | ||
Tracing The Truth
The reason love is right and hatred is wrong is because God is love. |
Love | ||
Tree House
Adam,Sue, and Zack are best friends. They start to make a treehouse. On their way home, they decide to take a shortcut leading to a great deal of trouble."Great for small kids" |
Friends take shortcut leading into great trouble | ||
True Freedom
Do you feel that your parents are restricting your freedom by giving you rules and expecting you to obey? In love, they are actually protecting you from situations or things that could harm you. |
Proverbs 6:20-23, Parents | ||
Turn and Run
When you are tempted by these or other sins, don't stand around and think about them. Turn and run. Ask Jesus to help you. |
Psalm 1, Temptation and Sin | ||
Under Construction
One puppet learns that God doesn't make junk! |
Inner Beauty | ||
Under the Surface
Ask God to teach you to love somebody you find it difficult to like. He loves that person. Ask Him to fill your heart with His love. |
Mark 12:28-34, Loving others | ||
Unlimited Treasure
The Bible is more valuable than expensive perfume. |
Psalm 19, The Bible | ||
Vacation Bible School Review
Two puppets talk about what they learned at Vacation Bible School |
Vacation Bible School | ||
Wallpaper and Jesus
All we have to do is ask Him into our hearts to be our Lord and Savior and He makes us all clean and fresh again. |
Salvation | ||
Watch Out
Know the safe place locations. Don't talk to strangers, have a special word or sign to know mom sent them and if not - RUN. |
Matthew 19:13-15, Safety | ||
Watch Your Manners
You need to be thoughtful and courteous. Ask the Lord to help you overcome the weaknesses in your manners. |
Psalm 100:1-6, Good manners | ||
Watching Like A Hawk
Just as that hawk looks for weaker animals to prey on, Satan looks for weak spots in our lives. |
Christian Living | ||
Water Walkers
Everyone should keep their focus on the Lord. He will see you through everything. |
Faith | ||
We Remember
It is important to be grateful to those who died for our country, and it's even more important to be grateful to God. |
Christian Living | ||
Weak But Mighty
What will God have you do? |
Christian Living | ||
Well Protected
If you are a Christian, God is your protection whatever situation you face. |
Psalm 91:9-16, God's Protection | ||
What A Mission We Have!
Some people go to other lands to be teachers and doctors and nurses and carpenters and farmers and lots of other things. Some of them are even preachers and they are telling everyone about Jesus. They need our help. |
Matthew 28:16-20, Supporting missionaries | ||
What Are You Working For?
What does God want me to do? If I do it His way, I will be happier. |
God's Plan for You | ||
What Belongs to God?
We have God's mark upon us, maybe not on our face, but in our heart. That means that we belong to God. And if we belong to God, then everthing we have, everything we do, belongs to God. |
Matthew 22:15-21, Giving our life to God | ||
What Christmas is REALLY All About
Johnny discovers that he is not supposed to be so selfish during the Christmas holiday. He discovers that Christmas is not about him. |
Christmas | ||
What in the World Can I Get Grandma?
God gives us His love and wants us to share it with other people. |
God's Love | ||
What Mission We Have
What does it mean to know the will of God? |
God's Will | ||
Whatever It Takes
I hope that you will love God enough to give Him everything, to jump into His love with both feet. |
Christian Living | ||
What's Gotten Into You?
It’s what's in us that will come out for others to see. Either we are filled with sin or we have Jesus in us. Kids will be challenged to answer the question “What’s gotten into them.” |
salvation,recommitment,self evaluation,bad manners | ||
What's In A Name?
Your name should be well spoken of. Since you have accepted Jesus as Savior, you also have Christ's name-- Christian. God wants you to live in a way that honors that name. |
Christian Living | ||
What's In A Nickname?
Reputations, like nicknames, have a tendency to live on even when they are no longer true. |
Christian Living | ||
What's In The Bag, Man?
Works with the others in this series, or alone. The idea is to have some fun between the more significant puppet plays. |
Another | ||
What's In The Bag, Man? (Stinky Lunch)
A great way to fill a few minutes while you re-dress the set and get the puppets in order. |
One of our inter-stitial plays. | ||
What's In The Bag, Man? Puppet's Don't Dance
More fun with Cappy and Boo as we introduce the next play... |
Another transition play. | ||
What's With the Fork?
The best is yet to come! |
Heaven and eternity | ||
When I Grow Up
Bruce the frog wants to choose the occupation in life that will ensure God will like him most. His misconception is corrected later in the script, after we endure a few very bad renditions of "Singing in the rain". He learns that he'd be better off learning about life from the Bible. |
God Loves Everyone | ||
When Is A Bear Not A Bear?
This skit teaches kids about being real and true to themselves and God. Don't put on an act - just be real! They also learn a little bit about Koala Bears ... or should that be "marsupials"? |
Honesty | ||
When The Troops Come Marching Home
A touching story that all the kids in our congregation who have fathers fighting overseas could relate to. |
For the families of our Servicemen | ||
Where Love Is
We never know when it is the Lord we are helping. |
God's Love | ||
Where's My Father?
Here's a chance to reach those kids with "absent fathers." It has a great message both for the kids AND for the Dads. Because Dads need to keep the promise! |
Absent fathers | ||
Whitewashin'
A spoof on Twain. A boy whitewashes a fence for Miss Watson and then learns about tithing. |
Tithing | ||
Who Is Saint Valentine?
A child asks a teacher about the origin of St. Valentines day. Saint Valentine himself answers! |
Valentines Day | ||
Why God Loves You
A puppet show for father's day, using the parable of the lost son. |
Father's Day Puppet Show | ||
Words That Kill
We want to hurt people back when they hurt us, but God tells us that even "thinking" mean things about other people is just as bad as really doing it. |
Godsays"Do not kill"andthatmeans in thought, too. | ||
Worldwide Communion
Jesus loved us enough to die for us, and He died for everyone, all over the world. |
Salvation | ||
Wrong Way
Don't listen to the world's view or be swayed to their side in any area of your life. Be strong in the Lord. |
Christian Living | ||
You Can Keep On Asking God
It isn't right to whine and pout for something when our parents have said "NO". God wants us to keep on asking Him for what we want or need. |
Prayer | ||
You Don't Say
If people see you as a loving person, they will begin to want you as their friend. |
Loving Others | ||
Your Commanding Officer
If you are a Christian, Jesus expects you to follow His commands. |
Christian Living | ||
Ze Family In A-Flat Minor
Mr. Tchaihadder, a 'famous' German composer, is writing his new symphony about "The Family". He comes to test it out on the kids, but ends up getting some help in his own family. |
Family |