Puppet Play: The Christmas Mouse
Use this fun puppet story as the sermon time in a Family Christmas Eve service. Mark Burrows is a WDS Associate who provides amazing scripts for our fully-scripted series. This add-on works with any of our series or your own. Script and recording.
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The Christmas Mouse:
A wonderful complement to the Worship Design Studio Advent/Christmas series, "Calm & Bright: 200 Years of Silent Night" www.worshipdesignstudio.com/silentnight
Many churches now include a Christmas Eve Family service along with their other more traditional services, usually held earlier in the evening.
Our church now has two, and one of the distinguishing features is the annual Christmas Eve puppet play which serves as the message (aka “sermon”) for these services.
And then right after the puppet play, a pastor comes forward to ask the children some questions about what they saw, helping them connect the content of the play with the theme for the service.
These original puppet plays are typically anywhere from 7-12 minutes long. There is a recording included in this download so you can just have people manipulate the puppets to the recorded voices.
The Christmas Mouse is set in a stable in Bethlehem. Cow, Donkey, and Sheep have all done something important – Donkey brought the family to Bethlehem. Cow shared her manger. Sheep brought the shepherds. But Mouse is very small and feels insignificant. That is, until the baby in the manger starts crying. The only thing that soothes him is when Mouse sings a lullaby. And this puppet play works very well for this worship series because the lullaby Mouse sings to the child is Silent Night!
If your church holds a Christmas Eve Family service, this could be great fit as the message.
Another time when it might be effective is the Fourth Sunday of Advent. This may be when a number of families stay home since Christmas Eve 2018 is the very next day. Knowing a puppet play would be the children’s message that morning might help motivate a few more families to attend.