The Grandparent Chapter-Drama Skit

The Grandparent Chapter-Drama Skit

Themes: Grandparents and grandchildren
Categories: Children, Family, Senior Citizens 
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: 4-5 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.

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 - like my grandpa when he makes me wear my coat outside even though it’s 65 degrees out. I’m like, “Grandpa, I’m sweating to death under this fur lining.  I’m gonna pass out from heat exhaustion!”

Max:

What’s he say?

Ruby:

Nothing.  He usually can’t hear me.  My mom says he should get a hearing aid but he won’t do it. 

Max:

Why not?

Ruby:

He says he can hear just fine.  At least once every visit, my mom tells him he needs a  hearing aid, and Grandpa says, “What?”

 

And then she says, “A hearing aid.”

 

And he says, “What?” again.

 

And then my mom yells (Ruby yells in a loud voice) “A HEARING AID!”

 

And my grandpa says, “Lemonade?  No thanks, I’m not thirsty.”

Max:

Oh yeah? Well, when my grandparents come to visit they wake me up when they get up in the morning, which is at 4 am, so they can spend some quality time with me.

Ruby:

Can’t the quality time start later, like at 10 am?

Max:

I asked them that once, but they said, “Son, when you get up at 4 am the day is already half wasted by 10!”

Ruby:

What time do they go to bed?  

Max:

Seven o’clock.