Brentwood Hills Church of Christ

Puppet Script for Children’s Worship Training

Lesson #11 – “Jesus Says No to Satan”

Characters needed:

Lion	(either man or woman, but some kind of original voice)
Boy	(man talking like a boy, in a high-pitched voice)
Girl	(man or woman talking in a high-pitched voice)
Clucky	(the 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:	(walks back and forth on stage…then sees something) “Hmmmmm…” (looks down at the ground)…”hmmmm”…(big pause)…”heyyyyyyy”…(another pause)…”Well, will ya look at that!” (another pause) “Look-eee-here! It’s…well, it’s…it’s…wooooowwwww! It’s Charlie Chawowski’s super cool Eagle-Man figure with laser eyes and super-duper x-ray vision and the Eagle-Beak Death Ray and bullet-proof steel wings with extended wing tips! This is Charlie’s FAVORITE toy! Oh BOY, won’t he be glad when I tell him that I found THIS!” (long pause) “Hmmmm…I…I wonder if he’s looking for it…I mean, maybe, well, there’s a slight possibility that it might NOT be his, you know…and…well, what if I just…hmmmm…I could just maybe take it home for a day or two…to…ummmm…well…I could just play with it and not tell anyone…I didn’t STEAL it or anything…I was just walking down the road and then…well…here it was! Maybe I’m SUPPOSED to have it!”
Girl:	(pops up, happy and curious) “Hey there! What ‘cha doin’?”
Boy:	(hides toy and slouches) “Ummmm…oh…nothin’. Nothin’ at all, really.”
Girl:	(still happy and curious) “Well…what ‘cha got there?”
Boy:	(scared of being found out) “Uhhhhhh…nothin’. Nothin’ at all.”
Girl:	(now really curious) “Yes you do, you have something there, in your hands, behind your back…what is it?”
Boy:	(covering up his story) “Oh THAT? Oh, well, ummmmm, THAT’S just my…ummmmm…my HISTORY BOOK…(pause)…yeah, that’s it…my good ol’ HISTORY BOOK.”
Girl:	(now knows that something’s up) “Well, does your ‘HISTORY BOOK’ have anything to say about Charlie Chawowski’s super cool Eagle-Man toy? ‘Cause he lost it at recess today, and the teacher sent all of us out here to look for it.”
Boy:	(kinda scared now) “Oh…really? Ummmmm…are you sure he lost it?”
Girl:	“Oh, we’re sure all right. And poor Charlie…he’s all in tears. He got that toy from his grandpa you know, and it’s REALLY special.”
Boy:	(kinda feels sorry for Charlie) “Oh.”
Girl:	“Yeah, so if you see it…(sees toy behind boy’s back)…HEY WAIT A MINUTE! THAT’S Charlie’s toy behind your back isn’t it! Let me see! YOU STOLE it?”
Boy:	“No, no, no! I didn’t steal it!” (now confessing) “I was just walking along the road and IT found ME!”
Girl:	“Yeah, right! Well, at least I’m glad someone found it. Now we’d better give it back to Charlie.”
Boy:	(scheming) “Well…we COULD give it back…(pause)…OR…(pause)…we could KEEP it.”
Girl:	“What do you mean KEEP IT! It’s Charlie’s and we know it!”
Boy:	(still scheming) “Yeah…but if it is our secret we could play with it every day at recess and not tell anybody, and Charlie will just think that no one found his toy and that it’s lost forever.”
Girl:	(appauled) “Ahhhh…I can’t believe you’d even THINK that!”
Boy:	“It’s not really a LIE, you know…we don’t have to say anything at all…and then we can play with it all to OURSELVES.”
Girl:	(still appauled) “You know what YOU need?”
Boy:	“What?”
Girl:	“A lesson in ‘doing unto others what you would have them do unto you’! What if this was YOUR toy? Would YOU want someone to find it and keep it? Or give it BACK to you?”
Boy:	(relenting) “OK, I guess you’re right. But it’s so TEMPTING to keep it, isn’t it? It’s just such a cool toy, and I’ve never had a toy THIS cool.”
Girl:	“Cool or not, it’s Charlie’s. And we need to return it.”
Boy:	“I know.”
Girl:	“You know in your HEART that you should return it.”
Boy:	“Well, I KNOW I should return it, but sometimes it’s SO HARD to do what’s right! It’s just SO HARD to give Eagle-Man back to Charlie when it’s right here in my hands, you know?”
Lion:	(pops up, has been listening to their conversation) “Ahhhhhh, dear boy, it IS hard when we’re tempted, isn’t it?”
Boy:	“Lion! Were you spying on us?”
Lion:	(laughs) “Haa haa haa! Us lion folk are always lurking in the bushes, you know!”
Clucky:	(pops up) “Brock, brock, brock!!” (kids yell..chicken!)
Lion:	“I was just visiting with my friend Clucky here, and telling him to go back home to the old man.”
Clucky:	“Brock, brock…say no to Satan…no to Satan…brock!”
Lion:	“Hey, for once, Clucky’s right! As CRAZY as that chicken may be, he knows that we should always say no when we’re tempted to do something that’s not right.”
Boy:	“So you think it’s SATAN telling me to keep this toy? That’s crazy…Satan doesn’t, like, TALK to us or anything.”
Lion:	“Oh, ho, ho…but he DOES come into our heads and makes us think of all kinds of things that aren’t right. Do you know that even JESUS was tempted by Satan?”
Boy:	“You mean THE Jesus? But he was PERFECT!”
Lion:	“Yes, but Satan tried his best to get him to disobey God.”
Boy:	(interested) “Really?”
Lion:	“Yeah, first Satan offered Jesus something to eat when he was REALLY hungry. Pretty tempting, you know. I think I would have flunked that test for sure. But THEN Satan told Jesus to let everyone know he was POWERFUL by showing off the ANGELS that were with him. And THEN Satan offered Jesus riches and power if Jesus would worship Satan!”
Boy:	“JESUS worship SATAN! No way!”
Lion:	“Hardy, har, har, har…that’s what Jesus said…NO WAY! Each time Satan offered Jesus wonderful things, Jesus answered Satan by quoting God’s Word…you know…the Bible.”
Boy:	(pondering) “Hmmmm…so if I feel tempted to…like…keep this toy or something, I can think about the things that are in God’s Word and tell Satan NO WAY?”
Lion:	“Yes!”
Girl:	“And God’s Word in your heart is a whole lot better than some toy, don’t ‘cha think? Even if it IS Charlie Chawowski’s super cool Eagle-Man figure with laser eyes and super-duper x-ray vision and the Eagle-Beak Death Ray and bullet-proof steel wings with extended wing tips!”
Boy:	“Yeah! You guys are right. And, you know, I like Charlie too, and being his friend is more important than a toy too. Think he’ll share it with me when I give it back to him?”
Girl:	“I don’t know. But even if he doesn’t, you’ll know that you did the right thing. You didn’t let Satan get ‘cha.”
Boy:	“I don’t want to have anything to do with that dirty ol’ Satan! He’s the bad guy!”
Girl:	“Yeah, REALLY bad!”
Lion:	“You guys run as fast as you can now, back to school, and tell Charlie how you said NO to Satan!”
Boy:	(excited) “Yeah, are you ready?”
Girl:	“You bet!”
Boy:	“And, just to make sure that Satan can’t get to me ANY MORE, I’m gonna read GOD’S WORD so I’ll know what to say when Satan tries to tempt me again!”
Girl:	“Yeah, me too!”
Boy:	“Well, we’ll see ya later, Lion! We’ve got a duty to do, and a lost toy to return. Charlie, here we come! Eagle-Man to the rescue!”
Lion:	“We’ll see ya later…I’m so glad you said NO to Satan!”
Boy and Girl:	“Bye-bye, see ya!”
Dog:	“Woof…hide God’s Word in your heart…woof…say NO to Satan…woof, woof!”