PUPPET SKITS

 

TITLE: I Know an Old Lady

 

CATEGORY:

Song

(Bible Story;  Social Issue, Comedy, Song, Black light, Shorts, Misc.)

 

STORY SUMMARY: 

Puppets act out story.

 

CRUX OF STORY/LESSON: 

Just for fun!

 

PUPPETS

PUPPETEERS

1.      Old Lady

2.      Fly

3.      Spider

4.      Bird

5.      Cat

6.      Dog

7.      Goat

8.      Cow

9.      Horse

 

 

 

 

PROPS

PROPS

PROPS

1.      Confetti

2.      Dog/cat collars

3.      Leash

4.      Cow bell

 

5.      Horseshoe

6.      Legs

7.      Assorted animal parts

 

 

 

 

OUTLINE OF STORY:

PROPS / ACTIONS:
  1. I know an old lady who swallowed a fly.  I don’t know why she swallowed a fly…I guess she’ll die.

 

·        Old lady puppet enters.

·        Fly enters and buzzes all aound.  The old lady has to move fast

 

2.      I know an old lady who swallowed a spider, that wiggled and jiggled and tickled inside her.  She swallowed the spider to catch the fly, but I don’t know why she swallowed the fly…I guess she’ll die.

 

·        Enter spider.  Old lady swallows spider but loses fly while she wiggled and jiggled and must recapture the fly.

 
  1. I know an old lady who swallowed a bird.  How absurd to swallow a bird.  She swallowed the bird to catch the spider, that wiggled and jiggled and tickled insider her.  She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.  But I don’t know why she swallowed the fly.  I guess she’ll die.

 

·        Old lady sneaks on unsuspecting bird and swallows it.

·        Each time she swallow something she gets a little bigger.

·        She wiggles and jiggles

·        She puts her mouth over animal and pushes it down off stage to swallow it.

 
  1. I know an old lady who swallowed a cat.  How about that, to swallow a cat.  She swallowed the cat to catch the bird, etc.

 

·        Old lady woos cat (“here kitty, kitty) and swallows it.

·        Props fly from behind stage.

·        She wiggles and jiggles

 
  1. I know an old lady who swallowed a dog, my what a hog, to swallow a dog.  She swallowed the dog to catch the cat, etc.

 

·        Old lady plays with dog, then swallows it.

·        Wiggling and jiggling interrupts swallowing.

·        Comes up from behind stage with a dog leg hanging out of her mouth.

 
  1. I know an old lady who swallowed a goat.  She just opened her throat, and in walked the goat.  She swallowed the goat to catch the dog, etc.

 

·        Old lady swallows goat.  Fly escapes again through open throat, she chases fly and recaptures.

·        She continues to get bigger.

 
  1. I know an old lady who swallowed a cow.  I don’t know how, she swallowed the cow!  She swallowed the cow to catch the goat, etc.

 

·        Cow enters opposite old lady.  Old lady goes into an all out chase after cow, cowboy style.

·        She stops to wiggle and jiggle.

 

 

  1. I know an old lady who swallowed a horse…She’s alive and well of course. 

 

 

·        Horse enters.  Old lady immediately swallows.  She gets the hiccups.  Fly escapes.  Song ends with her hiccuping and the animals escaping.  She gives chase.