A Grand Parent Thanksgiving

Grandparents are given thanks for their very important role in supporting kid's everyday lives.  Excellent for schools, youth groups, or Sunday School.

The script is broken down into several grades or age groups with each having a special anogram, recitation, or song. There is also a central drama that weaves through. As written, the cast could be 30 - 100 or more children, but since it is written in a segmented format individual segments could be deleted. Includes songs and a human video (mime to music written script).

Cast: 30 - 100

Bible Reference: Psalm 100

Set: Standard

Sound: wireless mics where available

Song: none

Lighting: Standard

SFX: none

Props: none

Costumes: standard

Special Instructions: none

Time: 45

Sample of script: 1 and 2 come on stage

1: Hey 2, whatcha doin’?

2: Hey 1! Last-minute preparations for Thanksgiving.

1: Uhhhhhhh, hate to be the one to break this to you but Thanksgiving is like, well, not now, OK?

2: Not now?

1: Not now.

2: Whatever would make you say that?

1: counts on fingers: Let’s see, there’s the weather, my knowledge of when Thanksgiving is supposed to happen, the calendar, shall I continue?

2: So those things tell you that it’s not time for Thanksgiving?

1: I am amazed; you read me like a book don’t you 2?

2: It’s a gift.

1: Proves my main belief in life.

2: Which is?

1: Not all gifts are equal.

2: I guess.

1: Still I feel led to tell you that you are way out on Thanksgiving.

2: It Depends on which Thanksgiving you are talking about.

1: Am I to assume that in your corner of the world there is more than one Thanksgiving Day?

2: Of course.

1: Uhhhhhh, 2, have you fallen lately, bumped your head, bad fever maybe?

2: Been simply tip-top in health is the fact.

1: Uhhh yeh! Anyhow . . . maybe best run this Thanksgiving Day thingie by someone before you announce it to the world.

2: Someone? Who someone?

1: I would go for someone well established whose name begins with “doctor”.

2: I sense you are skeptical 1.

1: Is there no end to your sensitivity?

2: Well I do work out.

1: It shows. So care to share just how many Thanksgiving Days there are in your mind.

2: Depends. Three hundred sixty-five or three hundred sixty-six.

1: The difference being?

2: Leap year.

1: Leap year?

2: You know, the old, “but leap year coming once in four gives February one day more” thingie.

1: So basically what you are saying is every day in the year is Thanksgiving?

2: How does he come up with these

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