Jesus Walks on Water

Drama Idea

When the Rotation.org Writing Team was discussing workshop ideas for the "Peter Sinks, Jesus Saves" Lesson Set, Member Luanne Payne had the following idea which could become a Drama Workshop idea...

The back story:

Luanne was thinking of an idea that she gleaned at a Rotation Model Seminar she was at in Guelph, Ontario several years ago.  They had an artist who held an art workshop on "The Call of the Disciples" called the Disciple Fast-Draw Activity (This artist didn't hand out notes so much of this idea is from recall.) Luanne thought that this  same idea might be used for "Walking on Water." She has added in some ideas about how this could be adapted.

If you develop a workshop from this idea, please come back and post it here!

Room Set-Up:

• Empty cardboard boxes (one per child, high enough so that when kids stand in the boxes they go up over kids knees); set up these boxes in two rows (for 2 teams)
• On a table in front of the teams a few feet away -  two long sheets of paper, (height of a person/width--the length roll it was from) with a couple of markers for each team.
• An area were you can hang the papers once finished (you will be writing on the papers with a marker so you may want something behind it so the marker does not go through the paper and mark your wall.
• In another area a row of chairs for a boat, blue fabric or cut sheets for waves
• A hat with slips of paper with character names, enough for one per child -- Peter, Disciples, Jesus, Waves (at least two of these)
• Waves (blue sheets or blue fabric)
• Water spray bottle  (optional)

Activity:

#1 Have students choose a character by drawing a name from the hat.

Have kids act out the story as you narrate it from a storybook.  Where certain characters should talk, prompt the kids (example: what was that, that Jesus said?)
 
Ask a few check for understanding type of questions.

#2 check the Disciple Fast-Draw Activity to see how you could adapt for this story.