Brentwood Hills Church of Christ

Puppet Script for Children’s Worship Training

Lesson #6 - “Joseph”

Characters needed:

Old Man	(old man is played by a woman trying to make the voice of an old man, or a man who sounds like a woman trying to make the voice of an old man, hee hee!)
Lion	(either man or woman, but some kind of original voice)
Boy	(man talking like a boy, in a high-pitched voice)
Animals	(any number of animals, played by people who like to sing)
Chicken	(anyone comedic)
Dog	(sits there the whole time but says something at the end)

Dog:	(comes out, pants, moves around, then just sits there)
Boy:	(pops up, holding an umbrella…sings) “I’m singin’ in the rain, just singin’ in the rain!” (pause) “Oh, hi everybody! Guess what I got today?” (audience says “What?”) “I got a new RAINCOAT! Isn’t it beeee-uu-teee-ful?” (everyone says yes) “My MOMMY got it for me because we’re going to FLORIDA, and, you know, in FLORIDA they have HURRICANES and stuff and lots of rain, so now I have a new raincoat!”
Lion:	(pops up, looking at boy) “Hey there little boy, did you say you got a new raincoat?”
Boy:	“Yes! Isn’t it beeee-uu-teee-ful?”
Lion:	“Oh….oh, yes, in deedee, that’s a NICE one alright. BRIGHT and YELLOW, that’s for sure! You know who ELSE got a really nice coat?”
Boy:	“Ummmm…ummm…I don’t know…but it doesn’t MATTER, mine’s GOT to be nicer. Mine’s the nicest coat in the WHOLE WORLD!”
Lion:	“Well, once there was a boy named JOSEPH who got a nice coat too, only he got HIS from his DADDY.”
Boy:	“Oh, well…what did his look like? Was is SMOOTH and SLIPPERY and YELLOW like mine?”
Lion:	“Joseph’s coat had LOTS of pretty colors in it. In fact, it looked like a RAINBOW!”
Boy:	(innocently) “Oh, I love RAINBOWS! Wow!”
Lion:	“Joseph had ELEVEN brothers, and do you know that HE was the only one who got a special coat from his daddy?”
Boy:	“Really? Why didn’t the OTHER brothers get one too?”
Lion:	“Well, Joseph was Jacob’s FAVORITE BOY. And, let me tell you…it made the other brothers REALLY jealous.”
Boy:	“Oh, yeah, I guess it WOULD!”
Lion:	“Those other brothers were SOOOOOO jealous that they got RID of Joseph and sent him away.”
Boy:	“Oh, that wasn’t very nice! I’d never do that to MY brother, even though sometimes he takes my toys and stuff.”
Lion:	“And THEN do you know what happened?”
Boy:	(in anticipation) “What?”
Chicken:	(peeks out at corner of stage)
Lion:	(long pause, gets distracted, sees chicken at corner of stage) “The CHICKEN came out!”
Boy:	(confused) “Huh? The chicken? What are you talking about?”
Chicken:	(while boy is talking, chicken goes crazy) “Brock-brock-ahhhhhhh! Brock-brock-ah-brock-ahhhhhh!”
Boy:	“Oh, that! That’s just CLUCKY. He belongs to the old man down the street. Come here, Clucky…Cluck, cluck, cluck…”
Old Man:	(pops up) “Are you talkin’ about my Clucky? Where’d you go, ol’ Cluckster? Ah, there you are! Come on home with me now, so you won’t get lost, ya hear?”
Chicken:	(goes with old man, both pop down) “BROCK!”
Boy:	(turns back toward lion) “Soooooooo…(pause)…what happened to poor ol’ Joseph? Did he go FAR, FAR away?”
Lion:	Yes he did…and he became a RULER in a far away land called Egypt.”
Boy:	“A RULER? Like at SCHOOL when you measure stuff you use a RULER? Hah! Now how could a BOY become a RULER? It’s only 12 inches long and made of PLASTIC! NO WAY! (laughs) Hah hah hah hah! You’re a SILLY LION! Hah, hah, hah, hah!”
Lion:	NO, NO, silly boy! Not THAT kind of ruler! The OTHER kind of RULER, like a KING who rules the people.”
Boy:	“OOOOHHHHHH! Well, why didn’t you SAY so?”
Lion:	“I DID!”
Boy:	“Oh…OK…(pause)…So Joseph became a ruler.”
Lion:	“And then his brothers came to him for FOOD, because there was not very much food where they lived.”
Boy:	“Well, gollll-lyyyy! They sent him away, and then they come to him for food? Hah! (pause) Did he give ‘em any?”
Lion:	“Yes, actually he did. BBBUUTTT…he gave them a little TEST first, and they passed the test, so then he told ‘em that they could be friends again.”
Boy:	“Wow! You mean he forgave them just like that?”
Lion:	“Yep! Because he realized that they were MEEEEEAN to him, but it was all in God’s PLAN, and when something is God’s PLAN, it always works out for the best. They wanted to do BBB-AAAA-DDDD…
Animals:	(pop up, singing) “Bad, bad, bad!” (pause, pop down)
Lion:	(continuing) …But God knew it would turn out GGGG-OOOO-OOOOO-DDDDDD!”
Animals:	(pop up singing) “Good, good, good!” (pause, pop down)
Boy:	“Oh, cool. I know that God ALWAYS knows best. It seems like even those ANIMALS know that. So…ummmm…what happened to his…ummmmm…his, his COOL COAT?”
Lion:	“Oh, it’s gone. It got kinda DIRTY.”
Boy:	(excited) “So then, I DO have the coolest coat in the WHOLE WORLD then?”
Lion:	“Well, I don’t know about THAT…but probably pretty close to it!”
Boy:	“Oh, I LOVE my coat! Bring on the hurricane! I’m not scared-a-you, Dennis!”
Dog:	“Category four! Category four! Take shelter! Woof!”
Boy:	“Did you hear that? We’d better go before we blow away! Bye-bye everyone, take care! Get your umbrellas and stuff!”
Lion:	“Yes, bye-bye everyone! See you next ti--------mmmmeeeee!” (gets blown off stage by the wind)