The Grand Chapter-Puppet Skit

The Grand Chapter-Puppet Skit

Themes: Grandparents and grandchildren
Categories: Family, Children 
Summary:

When Max shows up with lipstick imprints all over his face, it's obvious that Grandma is in town.  A short discussion ensues about some of the characteristics most grandparents seem to share: getting up too early, hearing problems, telling stories about the "good ole' days" etc.   But through the process, Max and Ruby learn how important their grandparents really are in their life, and how thankful they are to have them.

 
 
Style: Comedy

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Characters: 2 (1 Male, 1 Female)
Length: 3-5 minutes
 
Excerpt (Sample)

Setting: No particular setting is necessary.

As the scene opens, Ruby is on stage waiting for her friend, Max.

Ruby:

(looking off stage concerned, as Max approaches) Max, what happened to your face? It’s all red!

Max:

(enters with red cheeks and the shape of red lips from lipstick “kisses” all over his face) I know.  My grandparents are in town.

(Note: if you don’t want to use real lipstick you can tape on pieces of paper with lips cut out)

Ruby:

(knowingly) Aaah, they’re “cheek pinchers,” aren’t they?

Max:

You guessed it!

(he holds his hand up to Ruby’s face as if to pinch it and speaks in a mocking “grandparent tone)  “My little Maxie Waxie is getting so big.” 

(he pinches Ruby’s other cheek) “Little Maxie is the most handsome boy in town.”

(pinches Ruby’s the other cheek again) “
You have the cutest little chipmunk cheeks, Max.  I could just gobble you up!

Ruby:

It looks like someone tried!

Max:

That would be my grandma. 

Ruby:

(examining Max’s face more closely) Is that lipstick on your face?

Max:

Yep.  She’s a “smoocher” too! (wiping at his face) I thought I got it all off. This is so humiliating!

Ruby:

At least Jack and Buddy didn’t see you like that. 

Max:

Yeah, or I’d never hear the end of it!

Ruby:

Kind of like the time Jack’s grandma knitted him that sweater with the dancing sunflowers on it and made him wear it to school.

Max:

He hated that.  To this day people pass Jack in the hall and still yell out “Flower Power!” (half joking, half serious) Don’t grandmas know boys can get beat up for stuff like that?

Ruby:

Nah, they’re just trying to be helpful.

(Later in the skit)

Max:

Maybe I should cut my grandma some slack about the pinches and smooches.  She and my grandpa do a lot of really nice things for me.  Like letting me have ice-cream before dinner sometimes.

Ruby:

And making a special cake for my birthday, with the little pink roses that I like.

Max:

 Teaching me to fish and spending hours out on the lake.

Ruby:

Coming to all my recitals even if my parents can’t always be there.

Max:

Driving me to little league.

Ruby:

Watching me after school.

Max:

Sending me the best birthday presents.

Ruby:

Loving me no matter what I do.

Max:

Not getting mad when I accidentally spent some money from a prized coin collection to buy bubble gum. 

Ruby:

I don’t know what I’d do without my grandparents! I’m glad they’re a part of my life.

Max:

Me too.

Ruby:

(after a long pause) Max, I think I need to go.

Max:

Okay.  Is everything all right?

Ruby:

Yeah.  I just really want to give my grandma and grandpa a big hug right now.  Can we talk later?