Puppet Play
Good Manners Puppet Play © Jenny Jenkins 2016 https://sites.google.com/site/valueslessons
Each 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.)
Mum Good morning boys.
Yellow Good morning Mum.
Blue Where's breakfast?
Mum I said, 'Good Morning', Blue.
Blue I said, 'Where's breakfast.' I'm starving!
Yellow Someone got out of bed on the wrong side this morning.
Blue Shut up, fish face!
Mum Blue! Mind your manners! Breakfast is ready as soon as your room is tidy. It's an awful mess!
Blue What! Tidy my room before I eat? That's torture! I'll die of starvation!
Yellow Not likely, with all the pizza crusts you've dropped on your floor.
Blue What about him? How come he's allowed breakfast? It ain't fair.
Yellow I've made my bed and tidied my room already.
Blue (mocking) I've made my bed and tidied my room already. Loser!
Mum Blue! You'll lose your breakfast if you don't mind your manners.
Blue Lose my breakfast? What? Just going to tidy now!
(All disappear)
Narrator Ten minutes later.
(All pop up)
Yellow Thanks for breakfast Mum. It was delicious.
Mum You're welcome, Yellow. Blue, your room's a lot tidier now. Well done. What did you do with all the pizza crusts?
Blue Ummm...
Yellow He ate them off the floor.
Mum Surely not! You ate that pizza last week!
Blue BURP!
Mum Blue! What do you say?
Blue BURP!
Mum No. I mean, what should you say?
Blue Gimme my breakfast! I'm starving!
Mum I'm sorry, Blue. Your room looks nice but your manners are awful! I warned you. You've lost your breakfast!
Blue What? No breakfast? I'll starve! I'll be a walking skeleton by lunchtime.
Mum You'll survive. Have you learnt anything?
Blue Sure have! I should have eaten that mouldy cheese sandwich I found under my bed, instead of feeding it to the dog!
Mum and Yellow Oh boy!
Discussion Questions
1. Who showed good manners? How?
2. What should Blue have said after he burped? (Pardon me.)
3. In what other ways did Blue show bad manners? (Calling names, ignoring his mother's greeting, mocking his brother, telling him to shut up, eating scraps off the floor, not saying please, demanding food.)
4. What were the consequences? Did he deserve to lose his breakfast? Why?
5. Blue called Yellow a loser because his room was tidy. Why? Who was the loser? Why?