Children's Material FAQ's

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Once you've paid by credit card, you will receive your material through the U.S. Post Office within 5-7 days, depending on where you live.  Shipping is free.  Priority Mail (2 to 3 days for delivery) is available for $10.00 more.

At this time, we can only send mail through the Post Office to residents living within the United States.

Puppets are a great way to introduce stories to children because the characters can be very "animated" and can possess capabilities that human actors can't.  Puppets are very versatile. Also, puppets seem to relate to children on "their" level, and can be entertaining as well as informative.  

Using puppets instead of actors can also make your program easier, since scripts can be taped to the puppet stage and actors can read the skit instead of having to memorize lengthy lines.   It is often easier to recruit puppeteers instead of "on-stage" actors for this reason.  

Puppeteers can also be more flexible, since anyone can fill in when needed, due to sickness or other necessary absence. Using puppets also allows people who might be more hesitant to appear in front of an audience, the opportunity to hide behind a man-made stage.

What if I don't want to use puppets in my program?

If using puppets does not fit within your program,  you can still use our children's curriculum since the puppets are not necessary in order to teach the lesson. The puppet skits in our material are used as an introduction to the lesson being taught that day--they do not actually teach the material being covered, so the lessons and activities used with our curriculum can be taught with or without the puppets.  The only exception to this may be the "Time to Believe" VBS curriculum, since the puppets are used to tell the entire Bible story. However, real people could be used in place of puppets. 

Can I use real people instead of puppets?

Absolutely!  Anyone can stand in for a puppet as long as he or she can read!

Our children's material is very flexible so you can choose the activities that best suit your individual program. The lengths of the children's church curriculum series may vary, but in general it is written for either 4, 6, or 8 week time frames. 
  

Depending on how you choose to use it, each week's material can last anywhere from 30- 60 minutes.  You can mix and match from week to week; it all depends on what you're looking for and what you want to accomplish with your children's program.

Once you buy the material you are free to make as many copies as you need.  However, please only distribute the copies within your own group or organization.  You have permission to copy the material for your own needs, but you may not sell or give it away to anyone else.  

If you'd like to change or edit the material feel free to do so, however, please retain the information listed at the bottom of each page, including my name and website.  If you do change large portions of the material's content, include something like "Based on an original material by Rayeann Longwell, from www.skitsandstuff.com" or "based on an idea from Rayeann Longwell at www.skitsandstuff.com," at the bottom of your page. You may not sell the changed material without violating copyright laws.

If the children's material has not yet been mailed, you can receive a full refund.  If the material has already been mailed, once you receive it, you have 30 days to return the entire curriculum for a refund, minus a $15 handling fee.