Sunday School Skits (Scripts)

	Sunday School Resources Plays, Communion Lessons, Challenges and Links for Sunday School Teachers Sunday School Plays  You are welcome to copy these plays for use in your Sunday School. The plays were written for children aged 6-10 years old with the intention that they did them in class with the text in front of them. (The idea was for them to learn the story - not to perform as such.) They generally take about 5 minutes, very few props and no dressing up. We usually did the play twice, often changing who had each role.  They were for a class of between 7 and 12 children, so they generally contain a "crowd" or "group of apostles" or some such group that could be 2 or 10 people depending on the numbers that turned up so that everyone had a part.  There is a range of reading levels in the parts - from fluent readers for the leading roles, to simple one line parts for the new readers. They were written to coincide with the theme for the week so may not contain the whole story. Plays Description Size The Trouble With Sin Genesis 3:1-24 Temptation in the Garden (Based on Contemporary English Version) 20 kb Joseph A play about Joseph in jail. Genesis 40 11.3 kb Passover A play about the Passover Exodus 12 25 kb Naaman is Cured Elisha heals Naaman II Kings 5 (for age 10 and above) 17 kb Nehemiah Nehemiah rebuilds the walls Nehemiah 1 - 4 (for 9-10 year olds) 28.5 kb Jeremiah and the Scroll Jeremiah tells God's word to the people. Jeremiah 36 30.8 kb Daniel in the Lion's Den Daniel in the lion's den (for very early readers)     Daniel chapter 6: 1-19 21 kb The shepherds visit Jesus Shepherds visit the Baby Jesus - Christmas Play  Luke2:8-20 12 kb The three wise men The three wise men visit Jesus - Christmas Play   Matthew 2:1-12 13 kb Jesus escapes to Egypt Christmas Play   Matthew 2:13-23 15 kb Jesus, Simeon and Anna Christmas Play   Luke 2:22-38 11 kb Jesus heals the Centurion's slave Jesus heals a Centurion's Slave Luke 7:1-10 21.5 kb Jesus heals the Bent Woman A play about Jesus healing a bent woman.                  Luke 13:10-13 21.5 kb Jesus and the little children Jesus blesses children  Luke 18:15-17 20 kb Jesus Raises Lazarus Jesus Raises Lazarus John 11:1-44 24 kb Doubting Thomas Jesus appears to Thomas and the Disciples John 20:24-29 20 kb Easter Day The Resurrection 22 kb Pentecost The Coming of the Holy Spirit Acts 2 21.5 kb Paul and Silas in prison A play about Paul and Silas in prison which involves an earthquake. Acts 16:25-40 22 kb Paul and Silas in prison (simplified) A simpler version of the play about Paul and Silas in prison with fewer parts. 22 kb Peter is a Coward Peter denies Jesus three times; Jesus asks Peter if he loves him three times John 18: 15-18; 18:25-27; and 21:15-17 22 kb Peter Escapes from Prison Peter Escapes from Prison. Acts 12:1-17a. Alludes to James's death as well  23 kb God and Me - Lessons for Early Readers. This is a seven week syllabus covering the main ideas about God, designed with 5 to 7 year olds in mind. The syllabus uses a hand puppet of a spider as the main teaching aid. The spider theme goes into the workbook as well. We provide lesson plans (28 kb word file) and the workbook (1mb word file) for you to download for use in a teaching setting. Two plays are used as well and they are provided on the website. Topics covered are: What is God like? - Noah’s flood God cares about me - Jesus and the little children I can be myself and God will love me - David and Goliath God wants me to live in a particular way – The prodigal son We can trust God – Daniel in the lions’ den Talking to God – the Lord’s prayer What does Easter mean? The Triple S Challenge! (for Senior Sunday School) A very popular challenge for 9 and 10 year olds. We have introduced these "challenges" - something the children learn at home and then have to do for their Sunday School teacher after class. We have been simply amazed at how popular it has been!!!  We gave them about ten weeks to complete each one. We provided a certificate and a edible reward (nicely wrapped), which was presented in GREAT style at the  Sunday School meeting immediately following the child finishing the challenge. Its good to use an impressive looking chart to record the children's progress on too! Challenge 1 This challenge helps children to learn the meaning of common Christian phrases used in worship, such as in the Lord's prayer, the Aaronic blessing and so on. We provide two versions of the challenge booklet for you to download: Challenge 1 is designed to be an A5 booklet with the text being on both sides of the paper. You print it all off in A4 and then copy it so that it packs together as a book. This is the format we used. Challenge 1 A4 is in A4 - you can print it off and you don't have to worry about double-siding anything. Feel free to modify the text as suits you. Challenge 2 - the Old Testament Challenge 2  This is on the Old Testament. Note that an extra reward is offered if the children also learn the books of the Prophets. We gave a small chocolate bar for this and a larger chocolate box and certificate for doing the whole challenge. Over half of the children learnt the Prophets even though it was voluntary. The challenge should be xeroxed at A4 size, with the temple being xeroxed onto A3 light card that is stapled separately into the middle. Challenge 3 - Survival skills Challenge 3  focusses on essential christian skills - prayer, bible reading, church attendance and service. It sets week-long goals for each area. It was the least popular of the Triple S challenges that we did. The kids seemed to find it too "fuzzy" to grasp. For this reason we recommend you don't use it for your first attempt at getting the children to do challenges! Challenge 4 The last triple S challenge book...    Challenge 4 This one is shorter than the others because it was for the term coming into Christmas when there were many other activities. It was enthusiastically received, and we ended up with a real village of houses. The challenge should be xeroxed on A4 paper. The two pages with the house parts need to be xeroxed onto light card. Teaching about Communion (a 45 minute lesson)  This is a set of activities intended to be a lesson for the whole of the Sunday School to take together in the Presbyterian form of Communion. It is based on the words in the service used here at St Johns, but we would suggest you modify it to reflect the service that you use. We took the children into church for the communion part of our service at the end of the lesson. We did the day as: - An introductory talk by one teacher about the words used for Communion (ie Communion, Lords Table, Eucharist, Mass) with the emphasis on that we did this in our way here at St Johns but that people all around the world in all sorts of churches were doing the same thing because it is so important to Christians. - A play (which the teachers did for the whole class) - We then had a teacher recap the main points on the board - A set of worksheets, which we split into four groups for: *senior communion worksheet (ages 11-13) *middle communion worksheet (ages 8-10) *junior communion worksheet (ages 5-7) *The preschool children had a picture of bread and a cup of wine to colour. - A questionnaire which the children had to fill in as they watched the communion service take place: - Communion Quiz (This was xeroxed onto the back of everyone's worksheets) Communion Resources Description  Size Senior Communion Worksheet A communion worksheet for children ages 11-13 20.5kb Middle Communion Worksheet A communion worksheet for children ages 8-10 21.5kb Junior Communion Worksheet A communion worksheet for children ages 5-7 20kb Communion Play A play about communion 19.5kb Communion Quiz A quiz about communion 22kb Useful Web site links for Sunday School Teachers This is an index site to a whole lot of information -- and a wide range of age-groups and stories is covered. The link takes you to the New Testament page - but in the top right hand corner you can see the index for Old Testament and Miscellaneous sections as well. It is probably the best site of the lot as it covers a wide range of stories and also has a range of age levels.http://mssscrafts.com/newtestament/ This site has some more worksheets etc on it but is less comprehensive and all the worksheets are very similar. Again the full range of age groups is covered - from colouring in sheets to quizzes and word searches.http://calvarychapel.com/children/site/curriculum.htm This last site lets you make up your own word searches or crosswords using your own words. You change the type of puzzle with the "try other puzzles" box - it is very quick and easy to use.http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/WordSearchSetupForm.html Finally this site is probably only of interest to teachers of 5 to 8 year olds. It has craft and other activities - but it only covers the big bible stories and so it is of more limited use. http://www.dltk-bible.com/index.htm

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