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Puppet Play This play was written with inspiration of God, by Tina Oneyear. This play is 'free' to use for any Christian church event. Please do not use or sell for profit or put it in your own name. This is God's creation at Tina's hand. He knows the truth. This play is free to further the Gospel of Jesus Christ and our Heavenly Father. ******************** Something
Fishy
Names:
Toby & Racer (2
puppets) Toby is pouting while sitting on the back deck with a stick in his hand, pretending to fish. (In comes Racer) Racer:
“Hey, Toby! (cheerful) What’s up,
man!” Toby:
“Hi, Racer. Nothin’.”
Racer:
“Hey! What’s with
the long face, man? You look
like you’ve left half your face three miles down the road.” Toby:
“My mom grounded me and now I can’t go to the fishin’
tournament, this week end. She
really hates me sometimes. She
had no right to do that.” Racer:
“Why did you get grounded?” Toby:
“Because she is mean and really has it in for me.
She doesn’t want me to have any fun.
She really hates me.” Racer:
“Nawww…. Man, you had to have done something.
Your mom doesn’t hate ya. She
takes care of you to well. I
watch her. You get hugs and
all kinds of stuff. She
loves ya, man.” Toby:
“No she don’t! If
she really loved me, she would let me go to the tournament.
She knows how important it is to me.
I wanted to win the biggest fish award in my age group, this
year. All because I didn’t
clean my room and take out the trash.
Huummph!” Racer:
“Wow! Just for one
night, you didn’t take out the trash and you got grounded?” Toby:
“No. Not just one
night. I didn’t take it
out all week or clean my room all week.
She had to do it. She
said she was tired of askin’ and tellin’ me when I already knew what
I had to do. She is
mean, huh?!” Racer:
“Well, no. I
don’t think so. Not for a
whole week and you know those are your regular chores, anyway.
You disobeyed, man. You
know, you got off lucky, compared to Jonah.”
Toby: “Huh? Jonah?! Who is Jonah? Is he new at school?” Racer: “Oh no. Jonah is in the Bible. See he disobeyed God. He got a lot worse then you.” Toby:
“What are you talkin’ about?
What can be worse then not going to a fishin’ tournament that
you’ve been plannin’ on going to and be in for a whole year?” Racer:
“Well, God asked Jonah to go to Nineveh to tell people about
Him.” Toby:
“Jonah had to go to Nin…Nineveh to tell people about himself?
Wow, that’s flaky.” Racer:
“No, man. Jonah had
to go tell about God. He
didn’t want to go. God was
tired of askin’ and tellin’ Jonah so when Jonah got on a boat to go
somewhere else, God created a storm and the people on the boat through
Jonah overboard. Then God
caused a great big fish come and swallow him.” Toby:
“What?! A big fish? How
big? A Great White shark? A
whale? Was there blood and
guts or anything?” Racer:
“No, the fish didn’t ‘eat’ him, just swallowed him.
The Bible doesn’t say what kind of fish, just that it was a big
fish and Jonah had to stay in the belly of the fish for 3 days.” Toby:
“3 days?!” Racer:
“Yeah, 3 days.” Toby:
“Man, that don’t make sense.” Racer:
“Yeah it does, Toby. God
didn’t want Jonah to die. He
just wanted to get his attention and to get him to do the work that God
asked him to do.” Toby:
“So, what has that got to do with me?” Racer:
“That is what your mom is doing by grounding you.
She wants you to do the work that you are assigned to do.
Your mom is just getting your attention by taking away something
that you want, a whole lot. Maybe
you will learn to do your work when
you are suppose to and it won’t happen again.
It’s called obeying. The
Bible tells us kids to honor and obey our parents.” Toby:
“Oh. I didn’t see
it like that. I guess when
you get right down to it, I deserved it.
Hey, what happened to Jonah, anyway?” Racer:
“Oh, the fish spit him out and Jonah went to Nineveh to preach,
after all.” Toby:
“Well, I guess I got lucky.
I like to fish but I don’t like the smell of them when I have
to clean them. I don’t
think I would want to be in the belly of one.” (The puppets laughs and disappear) By Tina Oneyear 2002 ******************** Please, if you will, if you use this play, write me and let me know how the event went. Thank you!! (wink)
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