My church is giving the Sunday School teachers a break in February and March and have requested that Pickles help out in their absence. Can you think of any magic, activities, or object lessons that would pertain to:

Temptation
The barren fig tree
Mary washing Jesus' feet
Palm Sunday

Use a lotta bowl for the feet washing

Get your hands on Brenda Marshall's book which has a lot of good skit ideas.

Or if you can get DVDs of Roly Bain's instructive acts somehow and show those it might be both entertaining and educational.

Pickles - are you looking for bits that you can do in front of all the classes combined, or you in need of ideas that you can do in each of the classrooms? Are you looking for a bit that takes you 5 minutes, you can do it for the 4 & 5 year olds and then go across the hall and perform it again for the 6 & 7 year olds, etc.? Will you need to be able to easily modify it for very young children and then again for the tweens? Just looking for extra information to help my brain out.

Pickles - are you looking for bits that you can do in front of all the classes combined, or you in need of ideas that you can do in each of the classrooms? Are you looking for a bit that takes you 5 minutes, you can do it for the 4 & 5 year olds and then go across the hall and perform it again for the 6 & 7 year olds, etc.? Will you need to be able to easily modify it for very young children and then again for the tweens? Just looking for extra information to help my brain out.

Fitz, I think there are going to be various stations that different age groups visit for 10 min. or so. So I just need to have some kind of a short presentation or activity that pertains to each of these subjects. Each theme is for a different Sunday.

Can you get on of those huge greeting cards? Big enough for the smaller kids to kindof stan in if it propped up right? These make a wonderful automatic focus point for the kids. Then you have child or children be part of the Greeting and tell short short story or lesson blurb, or...... scripture memorization.

making one from large cardboard is also easy inexpensive, and you choose the theme. Just a big silly idea thats loads of fun.

Have you tried Googling Christian skits? You will find all kinds of skits that you might want to use.

I have always found clown ministry skits very difficult to do with one person. I would do the temptation bit last. because if your doing all four, Temptation is the strongest lesson I think. The only thing can think of temptation, and would need another person to help you with that, because the other person would catch you doing something you should not do, being tempted. The funniest bit for temptaion is have a shaving cream pie sitting out to cool. The baker leaves for the pie to cool and the clown goes about some other business, but keeps looking over at pie, conclusion is clown tempted and picks up pie. Baker comes back suddenly and yells at clown. Clown frightened and splats self with the pie. Baker says, you owe me a pie. Lesson learned is giving into temptation leads to an awful mess. Baker helps clown clean themselves up.

BREAKING THE LAW: THE WAY TO SALVATION -- courtesy of Shelley Hitz, hitzshel75 at cs.com, a clown skit for 3 speaking clowns
SETUP/PROPS
A big poster with the ten commandments written on them (could look like stone tablets) saying at the top "God's standards for Life"
A few balloons with a sign that says, "Balloons for sale $1 each"
A big Bible
SCRIPT
PART I:

Clown 1 Walks in with a big Bible under his arm. He sees the Ten Commandments and mentally goes through each one (looks at it or points at it, then thinks about it and nods his head affirmatively that yes he's kept that one). Clown 1 is showing a very self righteous attitude.

Clown 2 Walks in from the other side of the stage and sees clown 1.

Clown 1 "Yep, I've got that one covered, that one too …. Wow, I'm on my way to heaven. I don't know about you (pointing at clown 2), but I've (pointing at himself) kept ALL the commandments."


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Clown 2 Shakes his head slightly at clown 1's self righteous attitude and says, "Hey man, did you realize that the Bible says in James 2:10 ‘If you break one commandment, you've broken them all.'? Gods law, his ten commandments (points to the Ten Commandments sign) is just to point out our sin, that none of us can keep it all perfectly all the time. It shows that we need Jesus. In order to get to heaven, we have to first admit that we are a sinner. Romans 7:7 says, ‘I would not have known what sin was except through the law (points again to the Ten Commandments).'"

Clown 1 Puffs up his chest even higher and says, "I am definitely NOT a sinner. I've kept all those commandments."

Clown 2 Walks away shaking his head saying, "Good luck." He walks over and sets up his sign saying, "Balloons for sale, $1 each".

PART II:

Clown 1 Walks over to clown 2 selling balloons and sets down his Bible in the center of the stage. While clown 2 isn't looking, clown 1 "steals a balloon". The clown 1 turns his back toward clown 2 and looks toward the audience to begin blowing up the balloon.

Clown 2 Finally notices clown 1 and says, "Hey, did you take one of my balloons?"

Clown 1 Turns around trying to hide the balloon behind his back saying "No, no, I didn't take anything!" but accidentally lets the balloon go and it flies into the audience.

Clown 2 Angry, he steps over toward clown 2 pointing his finger at the chest of clown 1 saying, "You did take one of my balloons … you know what that makes you?…. a LYING THIEF!!!!!"

Clown 2 Stomps back to where he was selling balloons shaking his head saying, "Liar, thief …. and he thought he could keep all the commandments?" He sits down and begins reading a book.

Clown 1 At the same time, clown 1 realizes his sin and looks at the 10 commandments sign sadly realizing he's just broken two of them. He says "I've just broken two of the Ten Commandments ... Do not steal, do not lie. I thought I was a good person! But, I'm still able to keep the other eight commandments. Surely, the Bible doesn't mean that if I break one commandment its as if I've broken them all. I bet Jesus will still let me into heaven with 80% correct!"

PART IV:

Clown 3 (the opposite sex of the clown 1 & 2) Walks across the stage.

Clown 1 Notices clown 3 and whistles at her. Clown 1 tries to get clown 3's attention by whistling, winking, blowing kisses etc. Clown 1 looks out towards the audience and gives a knowing look like yeah; she looks good and gives the thumbs up sign.

Clown 3 Stops and talks to clown 2 selling balloons.

Clown 1 As clown 1 turns back around to begin following clown 3 again, he "trips" over his Bible that he laid in the center of the stage earlier. He stands up hopping on one foot and holding his other foot as if he stubbed his toe.

Clown 2 He has been watching all of this and stands up saying, "Hey, it serves you right for looking lustfully at my sister!!! In that book you just tripped over, Jesus said that if you look at a woman lustfully, you've committed adultery in your heart ….. that makes you a LYING, THEIVING, ADULTERER AT HEART!!!" Clown 3 takes his sister off stage shaking his head and giving clown 1 a you can't do anything right look.

PART V:

Clown 1 Looks up to heaven saying, "God, I thought I was good enough to get into heaven. But, I was wrong. (He hangs his head) I realize that I will never be able to fully live up to YOUR standards (pointing to the Ten Commandments). I realize that I am a lying thieving, adulterer at heart …. how could someone like me get into heaven? (He sighs loudly) "What did the other guy say earlier …. that the Ten Commandments just show me that I'm a sinner and need Jesus? Yeah, that's what he said. (He gets on his knees)

Jesus, I realize that I am a sinner and can't get to heaven on my own. Please forgive me for all the wrong things I've done. I want to have a true relationship with you. Help me to love you with all my heart, soul, mind and strength and to obey you. Thank you for showing me the true way to heaven. Amen."

He stands up looking relieved and happy. He now looks out to the audience. "How about you? Have you ever told a lie or stolen something, even if it was small? I realized its impossible to get to heaven by trying to be good. If any of you, like me, realize you are a sinner, and are truly sorry for what you've done then you can pray the same prayer I prayed.

Jesus, I realize that I am a sinner and can't get to heaven on my own. Please forgive me for all the wrong things I've done. I want to have a true relationship with you. Help me to love you with all my heart, soul, mind and strength and to obey you. Thank you for showing me the true way to heaven. Amen."

It's not easy being a Christian, but the Bible says that only those who obey what God wants for their lives will go to heaven. Wow, I need to start reading my Bible more so that I know how I can love God more and obey him every day. I better go get started …. bye!!!



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Pickles,

Temptation - use a change bag; put an apple (like the Garden), a "stolen" candy bar, a homework paper that was cheated on (one or all of the items) inside, change the bag and have a volunteer reach in... have them pull out a silk or paper that says "sin". Teach how taking what we shouldn't take never gets us what we want.

The barren fig tree - use the bowl that your pour into and nothing comes out. Use several glasses of different color liquids and call them each things like "pride", "dressing nice for church", "giving money" or "coming to church every week". Tell the kids that all those things are good, but they are not a substitute for the real presence of God's love and His Spirit in someone's life. When all those other things have been poured IN, NOTHING comes out, showing how a false pride can make us feel full inside but leave us with nothing that can be poured out to others.

Mary washing Jesus' feet - Do you spin plates? Maybe set up a spinning plate or two or three and try to keep them all going... show how it's easy to get busy working hard at so many things but to miss our time with God. Kids who have lots of school and sports activities will relate. If you don't spin plates, tie some helium balloons (they HAVE to float, so no regular air) onto LONG strings... long enough that even if you let them go and they float to the ceiling, you can still reach them. Have words written on each balloon like "school", "friends", "sports", "church" and other activities. Use at least 4 balloons and optimally 6. Walk to the front of the room holding all the balloons. When you get to the front, as you talk about all the things we have to keep us busy, occupied and stressed, let each balloon go as you look at the next one. As they each start "floating away", go to grab one while letting one or two others "get away". Make a big to-do about frantically chasing each and trying to keep them all together. Collapse in "exhaustion" and explain how we can all be like Martha, who got so busy with work that she didn't have time to sit down and she could have gotten so worn out that she didn't even appreciate the blessing that sitting down with Jesus really is!

Palm Sunday - Here's a really old trick, but it's simple and easy. Take a newspaper and tell the kids all about how the BIG news in Jerusalem was that Jesus was on His way into the city! Talk about how Jesus' miracles of healing, feeding, forgiveness, etc were the front-page news of the time. As you're talking, lay the sections of the paper out flat - open the sections to their middle crease and stack one or two sections on top of each other. Make sure you have at least a dozen or more pages stacked together. Follow me? Then take the sections and roll the whole thing into a tube. Try to make sure the edges are all even. Use a piece of tape or two on the outside edge to hold the paper rolled together. If you have an assistant or two from the kids, make one or two more rolls as you talk. They're quick and easy to do.

Once you have the paper rolled up, cut lines into the top of the tube, cutting down about 6 inches or so. Make three or four evenly-spaced cuts. When this is done, as you tell the kids about how everyone was coming out to cheer Jesus for all He had done for them, you reach in and pull the inner sections of paper out towards the top... the whole thing will begin to look like a palm branch with leaves hanging off of it. When all the tubes are thus extended and looking right, have the kids wave the "palms" and do the hosanna shouting like the people did.

Need any clarification? Write me a PM. Glad to help; I've used some of these bits in Sunday School programs for years.

Use a lotta bowl for the feet washing

I always use the lotta bowl for the widows oil.

Try using the lotta bowl with a confetti bucket...God just keeps on given and given...this would be a running Gag...

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