Puppet Play
Choices Puppet Play © Jenny Jenkins 2015 https://sites.google.com/site/valueslessonsEach puppet play on this website uses the same 3 puppets.
Use 'Muppet' TM type puppets with mouths you can open from inside, 1 larger headed mother, and 2 boys, one good and one naughty. Rename them, perhaps for their colour.
Or make Sock Puppets See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-mfUBQE3_s or Paper-bag Puppets -See: https://youtu.be/R-NmTMum-6I
For a simple Puppet theatre drape a piece of fabric or a sheet over a tight piece of string between 2 chairs or in an open doorway, or duck down behind a long sofa or couch.
(Blue, Yellow and Mum pop up.)
Yellow Blue, can you lend me a dollar please?
Blue Nah. I’m broke.
Mum I can, Yellow.
Yellow Thanks, Mum. I’ll pay you back on Saturday.
Mum You’re welcome.
Yellow Can I borrow your bike, Blue? Mine has a flat tyre.
Blue Nah.
Mum Blue, remember the golden rule?
Blue Nah.
Mum Treat others the way you’d like them to treat you. It’s an old proverb.
Blue I don’t want to lend Yellow’s bike. Anyway it’s got a flat tyre.
Mum That’s not what it means. You’d like it if Yellow loaned you his bike.
Blue Not with a flat tyre.
Yellow Forget it. I’ll just fix the puncture.
Mum But you’ll be late for the movie.
Yellow I’ll work fast.
Blue Movie! What movie?
Yellow The new Batman one.
Blue Cool! Can I go?
Mum How? You told Yellow you had no money.
Yellow Yeah!
Blue I just remembered where I put my wallet.
Yellow Yeah, right. I’d better fix that puncture. (disappears)
Mum Blue! You could have loaned your brother a dollar. Remember the golden rule?
Blue Treat others how they treat you?
Mum Do you really want us to treat you how you treat us?
Blue Of course….not! Can I go see Batman? Pleeeeease?
Mum Sure. If you bike fast you’ll make it in time.
Blue Yay! See ya later alligator! (Both disappear. Pause)
(Mum and Yellow pop up)
Yellow I've fixed the puncture, Mum.
Mum That was quick, Yellow. Better get biking. You’ll miss the ads but you should make it in time for the start.
Yellow Yeah! Bye, Mum. (disappears)
Mum Bye son.
(Blue pops up)
Mum Blue, you’d better hurry. You’ll miss the start! I thought you’d gone.
Blue I did. I got half way down the road and ran over a broken Coke bottle. I got a flat tyre.
Mum. Oh no! Some-one must have dropped it and not bothered to stop and pick up the broken glass.
Blue Yeah, they did.
Mum. That reminds me. What happened to the bottle of Coke you took to school today? I’d like to recycle the empty bottle.
Blue Ummm. I lost it.
Mum Blue! You broke it! Did you stop and pick it up?
Blue Ummm… I was in a hurry.
Mum Why?
Blue To escape from school.
Mum Blue! It serves you right that you that ran over it! I guess you just learned another proverb.
Blue I don’t need to know.
Mum Close. You reap what you sow! (All disappear)
Discussion Questions
1. What character qualities did:
Yellow show? (Perseverence, hard worker.)
Mum show? (Generous, encourager.)
Blue? (None)
2. Who can tell me one of Mum’s proverbs, and what it means?
(Treat others the way you’d like them to treat you, You reap what you sow)
3. What does it mean to reap what you sow?
Talk about sowing lettuce seeds and reaping pumpkins. Does it ever happen? You sow lettuces, you reap… (lettuces)
You sow being helpful, you reap others…
You sow being kind, you reap others…
You sow being generous, you reap…
4. How did Blue reap what he sowed?