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Fruit of the Spirit - Peace

Drama Workshop Sketch

Week 4

Only one workshop this week-everyone together.

Summary: Play a Balloon Game, then children do Dove dot-to-dot while some parents prep to do a Drama Script about David & Abigail “Showdown at the Baa Baa Corral”. 

Editor Notes:
You need to purchase the following book for this workshop:
Originally the puppet script and dove dot-to-dot was found in the Abingdon Press Bible Zone Fruit of the Spirit book – that book is now out of print (see update below).
Update 2016:  this same script has been reprinted, as a drama, in the book “All-In-One-Bible-Fun Series: Fruit of The Spirit” for Elementary Children, by Abingdon Press, 2009, 978142707827.  Therefore I've updated the lesson to indicate same.


Supplies:

  • Balloons blown up
  • costumes - 3 cowboy hats, 1 cowboy sheriff hat & badge, 2 bandannas, 1 moustache, 1 apron, 1 rope, 1 dress & bonnet.
  • Peace Journal Page, Peace Sticker*, pencils.
  • Book “All-In-One-Bible-Fun Series: Fruit of The Spirit” for Elementary Children, by Abingdon Press, 2009, 978142707827 (see note above).
    copies of dot-to-dot page (page 38), 5 copies of script (page 34-35).

 

Lesson

One workshop this week with all families together.

Balloon Game

Divide the group into 2 teams – easily divided by which side they’re sitting on. Tell them their mission is to get all the balloons on the other team’s side.

Hand out an even number of balloons to each team and on go, they’re to stay sitting but swat the balloons towards the other team.

After a while, say FREEZE! Ask them if it was hard to get all the balloons to the other side and why? (the other team was fighting back!)

Ask: How was this game with the balloons like our words or actions when we want to be right and so does the other person?

Dot-to-Dot Activity Page

Pass out clipboards, a dot to dot page and a pencil to each child. Tell them to work the dot to dot.

Prep “Showdown at the Baa Baa Corral”

While the children are doing the dot-to-dot, ask for 5 adult volunteers to do the “Showdown at the Baa Baa Corral” skit. 

The parts are:
Narrator - Workshop leader will do this part.

cowboy hats, bandannas, moustache, apron, rope

  1. Nabal – the wealthy but insensitive sheep rancher (cowboy hat/mustache)
  2. Miss Abigail – his beautiful and peace-loving wife (dress and/or bonnet)
  3. Marshall David – the handsome young marshall (sheriff cowboy hat/bandanna)
  4. Lefty – the ranch hand (cowboy hat/bandanna/rope)
  5. Shorty – the chuckwagon cook (cowboy hat/apron)


Assign parts to the 5 adults, give them each a script, have them grab a costumeet their assigned puppet and go behind stage. They should read through it once. Tell them to come up with good voices and don’t forget to work the puppets as they talk!

When the kids finish their dot to dot, ask what it’s a picture of. (dove) Say: The dove is a symbol of peace and a symbol for the Holy Spirit. Isn’t that interesting! I guess that’s why one of the fruits of the Spirit is peace!

Present “Showdown at the Baa Baa Corral”

Say: We’re going to watch a puppet show. The story is about someone who worked to keep the peace. It didn’t make any difference to her what was right or wrong or who was right or wrong – the important thing was that the two groups of people avoid fighting. I want you, the audience, to watch for the conflict or problem and what was done to make peace. After the show we’ll talk about it.

BEGIN THE DRAMA (PUPPET) SHOW

Drama – script is found in the book “All-In-One-Bible-Fun Series: Fruit of The Spirit” for Elementary Children, by Abingdon Press,


After the show:

Can you believe this story is in the Bible? Well, we added the western theme, but Marshall David was David ... remember him? Shepherd, anointed by God, killed a giant with a slingshot, became king! The events did happen, but not like a western! And there really was a Nabal and an Abigail.

In today’s story there was a problem – what was it? Who solved the problem early, before it could become a much bigger problems. (Abigail)

The Bible tells a story of something that happened to David after he fled from King Saul’s palace … this happened before David became king. Abigail, the wife of a rough sheep rancher, went against what women were allowed to do back then to right a wrong committed by her husband. She took a chance to keep the peace.

She stepped in and kept one person from doing something he would have regretted. Did Abigail cause the problem? (no) However, she stepped in to find the solution to the problem.

Sometimes we are called to step in to be peacemakers. Sometimes we cause the problem. Then it’s important to stop and make peace. Sometimes we may not have caused the problem, but we can still sometimes help people stop the conflict.

Jesus led a life of peace. He set an example of how to live a life of peace and respond to others in a peace-filled manner.
 
Peace Journal

Turn to your journal page PEACE – discuss it briefly, but they’ll probably have to complete at home for lack of time.

It includes:
When our family has a conflict between two or more family members, these are some steps we will take to bring peace:
God’s love brings us peace. Have each person write a quality or attribute of God by each letter ... P E A C E

Closing

Hand out a Peace Sticker to each family to go on their cover page.


Jan @ First Presbyterian Church, Napa CA

Some ideas adapted from: Abingdon Press, Bible Zone, Fruit of the Spirit (1998)

Abingdon Press, “All-In-One-Bible-Fun Series: Fruit of The Spirit” for Elementary Children (2009)

Editor updated lesson to include the second book, as the original book is now out of print.  Also updated lesson from a puppet to drama to align the material to work with the newer book.

A representative of Rotation.org reformatted this post to improve readability.

Last edited by Luanne Payne
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