PUPPET SCRIPTS

Script

#1

 

Mandy and Sandy's Exploits

 

"The Candy Trial"

 

 

M:        Hey!  What have we here?  Can it be, someone left some candy -- for  me!  It has to be...  Everyone knows I can't resist       it, so they wouldn't leave it out here, so defenseless, by itself.  I'm sure it was meant for me, soooo.... (takes the candy)  Thank you, Lord!  Yum Yum!  (Then Mandy leaves and Sandy appears)

 

S:         (singing) "Jesus loves me this I know, for the Bible tells me so..."  Whoa!  What gives here?  Where did my candy go?  I left it for just a minute.  Say, boys and girls, did you see anybody take some candy?  (children tell her Mandy took it)

 

            No!  He wouldn't do that!  Are you sure?  (Children assure her that Mandy did take the candy)

 

            BOY is he in trouble!  Mom and Dad have told him at least a hundred times not to take things that don't belong to him.  MANDY!  Come up here, right now!  You hear me?  Riiii...ght now!

 

M:        (mumbling like he has something in his mouth) I’m coming, I'm coming!  (Loud swallow sound)  Keep your shirt on, Sandy.  What's the problem?

 

S:         Did you "find" some candy up here?

 

M:        Yeah!  Isn't God good to have someone leave me some candy?  Boy was it good!

 

S:         What!  You ate it?!  How could you?!

 

M:        Well that was easy.  I just took the paper off and popped it into      my mouth and chewed and swallowed.

 

S:         OoooooH!  I don't believe I'm hearing this.  It wasn't God who left that candy there, it was ME! 

 

M:        Hey, thanks Sandy that sure was nice...

 

S:         (angrily) I wasn't trying to be nice and it wasn't for you!  I was in a hurry to get something and laid that candy down for just one minute and the candy thief of the century hits again.  Boy are you in trouble.  Wait until I tell Mom and Dad.

 

M:        Oh, no!  This can't be happening.  Not again!  I've been so good for so long, I just thought for sure God had told someone to leave that candy for me.  It was just laying there all by its lonesome, just needing someone like me to eat it.

 

S:         Now let me get this straight!  You thought that just because a piece of candy was laying there it must belong to you?

 

M:        Well, yeah.

 

S:         Didn't you remember what Mom and Dad told you last time?

 

M:        You mean "Before you take anything, Mandy, ask around and make sure it doesn't belong to anyone else."?

 

S:         Exactly!

 

M:        Nope!  I didn't remember.

 

S:         Mandy, you've got to have a thousand holes in your head.  Everything important leaks out before it does you any good.

 

M:        I guess so.

 

S:         Don't you remember Ephesians 6:1, "Children, obey your     parents in the Lord: for this is right."

 

M:        Uh, sorta.  I guess.

 

S:         Well, Mom and Dad said you were to ALWAYS check with them if you didn't know for sure that something you found could be claimed to be yours.  You didn't obey.  You're in a "lot of hot", water that is.

 

M:        Hey, Sandy, I do remember another verse from the Bible. Matthew 18:21 & 22, "Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Untill seven times?  Jesus said unto him, I say not unto you, until seven times: but, until seventy times seven."

 

S:         How did you remember all that and not the short verse in    Ephesians?

 

M:        I guess because I need forgiving a lot, 'cause I have such a hard time obeying.  Will you forgive me?  I'll replace the candy when I get my allowance -- in, uh, let me see, Oh yeah, two weeks.  OK?

 

S:         Two weeks!  How come so long?

 

M:        Well, I owe Mom for that vase I broke running through the house.  And I owe Johnny Britt for his desert that I accidentally ate when he wasn't looking.  And then,

 

S:         Whoa!  I get the picture.  You sure do need a lot of forgiving, alright.  I won't tell Mom and Dad ... THIS time.  But you better start remembering or this "candy trial" will be small potatoes when they get a hold of you.  Two weeks...no longer.

 

M:        Hey, Sandy, you're alright!  Thanks for forgiving me.  Oh, by the way, your candy sure was good!  (Mandy ducks as Sandy swings at him)

 

S:         Oh, Mandy, you rascal.  It's a good thing Jesus helps me love you.  Bye boys and girls.  See you next week!

 

(Copyright: Saturday, November 11, 2000, 08:16:14 PM, W.G. Blaisure)

Script

#2

 

Mandy and Sandy's Exploits

 

"Confidence"

 

 

M:        (singing slightly off-key) I’ve got confidence, I've got confidence...

 

S:         Mandy!  What's that awful noise?  It sounds like a cassette tape player with rundown batteries!

 

M:        Aww, Sandy, it was just me singing.

 

S:         If that's singing, I'm giving up listening for good!

 

M:        Sandy, that's not nice!  I don't sing that badly.

 

S:         Right!  That's why the dog is howling two blocks away!

            (Makes howling sound)

 

M:        (Mandy groans loudly)

 

S:         What were you TRYING to sing, anyway?

 

M:        I was singing, "I've Got Confidence".

 

S:         You must have to be brave enough to try to sing in front of all these people.  Either that or you were trying to punish them.

 

 

M:        Sandy, you can pick on me all you want.  It's not going to stop me from believing.  Jesus said that He loved me and would be        with me all the time.  So that gives me confidence.

 

S:         Mandy, what is confidence, anyway?

 

M:        It means I can be sure that God will do what He says He will.

 

S:         Silly, everyone knows that!

 

M:        That's what I thought, Sandy.  But that's not true.  A lot of people believe God lives, and even believe He loves them, but that doesn't mean they really trust Him or believe in Him.

 

S:         How do you know that, Mandy?

 

M:        By the way they talk.

 

S:         What do you mean?

 

M:        Well, you remember when Mom read that scripture from the Bible that says, "I can do all things through Christ who makes me strong."?

 

S:         Yeh.  What's that got to do with confidence?

 

M:        Just a little while later Dad asked her to speak to the Ladies' Group and she said, "Oh, I couldn't do that.  You know I get nervous when I'm in front of people."

 

S:         But everyone gets a little scared in front of people.

 

M:        Right!  But if she believed what she read, she'd know that Jesus would help her -- she'd have confidence.

 

S:         Uh, yeh, I guess so.  But wouldn't you be scared?

 

M:        Not if I was trusting Jesus.  That's why I was singing even though SOME people say I can't sing.

 

S:         But you CAN'T!

 

M:        The Bible says I am to make a joyful NOISE unto the Lord.  I CAN do THAT!  Besides, it's a law in Texas that it's OK to sing off-key in church, so I'm legally right.

 

S:         But this ain't Texas, its Iowa!

 

M:        Oh.  Um.  Well...I still think it's OK with God.

 

S:         I'll tell you what; you can still have confidence in God if you DON'T sing.  And it might help me be more confident if you don't sing.

 

M:        How could my not singing help you be more confident?

 

S:         'Cause then I'd know that when the Bible says God is merciful, it really was telling the truth!  God would be having mercy on me and all these people!

 

M:        All right, Sandy.  If it helps you, I won't sing, but I still believe Jesus loves me.

 

S:         You're right about that, Mandy.  You CAN be confident that He will always love you and watch out for you.  And, boys and girls, you can be confident that Jesus loves you too.  He loves you so much that He gave us the Bible, and Church and our Pastor, and our parents.  They all watch out for us and love us.

 

M:        Right, Sandy.  And God will always help us when we ask Him.  So, kids, when you pray, believe God will help you and make a way for good things to happen to you.  You can trust the Lord.

 

S:         Gotta go!  See you next week.  Bye!

 

M:        Bye!

 

 

(Copyright: Saturday, December 09, 2000, 2:15:32 PM, W.G. Blaisure)