Gospel Clowns: Let Me Pick Your Brains

Pickles · #1 (**permalink**) 02-04-2010, 11:07 AM

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

StuartPid · #2 (**permalink**) 02-04-2010, 11:17 AM

Use a lotta bowl for the feet washing

tim · #3 (**permalink**) 02-04-2010, 07:59 PM

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.

Fitzwilly · #4 (**permalink**) 02-04-2010, 08:38 PM

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 · #5 (**permalink**) 02-04-2010, 09:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Fitzwilly

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.

Fiesta · #6 (**permalink**) 02-25-2010, 11:34 AM

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.

smirky · #7 (**permalink**) 02-25-2010, 12:04 PM

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

Professor Pi · #8 (**permalink**) 03-02-2010, 01:12 PM

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.