Free Christmas Skits, Plays, & Dramas

Teaching Kids To Act On Their Faith!

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*A Nativity Story (Sample from our Life of Jesus Bible Skits)

*Bethlehem Drive-Through (small fee required)
A fun and effective way to witness to your community. Stations are set up to tell important parts of the Christmas story. Visitors drive past each station, finally arriving at the manger scene. Little to no memorization required. For older youth and adults.

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A Candy Cane Christmas
You might have heard the Legend of the Candy Cane. But I bet you've never heard it like this! Lori Frankel, a subscriber to The Sunday School Teacher's Network, has sent in a wonderful retelling of the legend in play format! Click the title to get the script. 

A Christmas Play 
Faith Scott, a dedicated Sunday School teacher, and contributor to the Sunday School Teacher's Network, wrote this Christmas play. She initially used it with a small group of kids. However, you can adapt it to a larger group of children by adding more angels and/or interjecting Christmas Carols to be sung by your children's choir. 

A New Home for Christmas 
The story takes place Christmas Eve at a home for orphaned and abandoned children... Jared and Michael find this Christmas extremely difficult feeling no peace, no hope, and no love. UNTIL...Discover their hope!

Bethlehem Walk 
A group of about 20 visitors at a time follow a shepherd on a 15 minute walk to view 7 skits or vignettes while looking for baby Jesus. A unique way to witness to your community during the Christmas season! 

Christmas, the Best Gift Ever! 
A Sunday school teacher helps her students to realize the real meaning behind exchanging gifts at Christmas.

Christmas, Jesus, & Santa 
Santa Claus in a play about the birth of our savior?! Read it to learn why? 

Ewe Said It! 
Several generations after the first Christmas, some spring lambs anxiously await Ewe's arrival to hear the story of the Good Shepherd.

Grandpa Remembers 
Mary Goemaat, Children's Director at Faith Church in Michigan wrote in to say, "A few years ago our church created an original Christmas production, a brainstorm of the associate pastor and myself that we pulled together out of necessity. We include many different programs and ages of kids and put it all together in "Grandpa Remembers". 

It's Christmas Day 
Children perform original music, while other children pantomime the Nativity scene.

Mrs. Magi 
The Magi's three wives are "doing" lunch after sending their husbands off on an expedition to Jerusalem.

No Room In The Inn
A comical skit which takes place at the Reservation Desk of the Bethlehem Inn & Spa.

One Solitary Life
A Youth ministry Christmas drama. Specifically written for small or large groups.

Shepherds On The Hillside
Faith Scott gives us a glimpse as to what the shepherds might have been saying and doing the night the angel appeared to them.

Someone is Coming to Our House 
It's the Christmas story as seen through the eyes of the animals of the stable where Joseph & Mary came to stay. Gabby is the pink flamingo who is busy "preparing" for Christmas. But her friend Minnie Moo (the cow) tells Gabby about a different way to prepare for a very special Someone. Gabby does help in the skit by singing a stanza from various Christmas Carols.

Steiger and Advent
The puppet, “Steiger,” from “Bergsteiger,” means "mountain climber." Steiger learns about the joy of celebrating the birthday of Jesus. 

The Best Party Ever 
Takes place in a fairy school where no one knows anything about Jesus' birth. Holly, the Christmas Fairy, shares the story--not just the glitter and mince pies--but the true meaning of Christmas with friends. 

The Christmas Caravan 
The three camels that carried the Magi to Bethlehem for the first Noel, have come together to celebrate the 25th anniversary of that event. This heartwarmingly humorous drama retells the Christmas story from the perspective of the camels.

The Christmas I Remember 
Join three middle aged daughters who happen across an old chest in their parent's attic, evoking memories of their childhood and Christmases past. 

The Christmas Tree Narrative 
Easy setup to adapt to your Children's Ministry. It does not necessarily need a rehearsal. 

The Nativity 
A 15 minute short play. The Christmas story told through Matthew and Luke as they expound upon the Nativity in their actual Biblical words while their narration unfolds with the other actors performance. Luke, Matthew, Storyteller, Narrator, and Gabriel have larger parts and would typically be given to teens and/or adults, whereas the other parts may be children, teens, or adults.

The News of Jesus
A short, modern nativity skit. Easy set up.

The Perfect Gift 
This skit was designed to require minimal prep and rehearsal! Uses eleven or more people, and can include audience if not enough kids. It teaches a lesson about the busy-ness of the gifting season. The perfect gift is, of course, the Savior, and the nativity is the basis of the skit.

The  Perfect Tree
It is almost Christmas. The Martin family is not aware of it but once again the underworld has been given an assignment against them. That assignment is to do everything in their power to prevent the Martins from learning what the biblical meaning of Christmas is. 

The Real Story 
Faith Scott has written another great skit for Christmastime, and has incorporated the poem, One Solitary Life. 

The Reason For The Season 
Some common Christmas symbols come to life and find out the real reason for celebrating Christmas, learn important lessons about friendship and unity, and discover their own hidden gifts and responsibilities. A short skit for 13 characters.

Three Kings 
The first Christmas story is humorously told from the Magi's point of view. It is for a smaller group of children.

Thummin's Christmas Letter
This play was performed a couple years ago at a relatively small church and had very good results. The name Thummin comes from Exodus 28:30a (KJV), "And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgement the Urim and the Thummin."

What is Christmas? 
Written for a small Sunday School class of 5-6 students. Anyone can use this skit "as is" or build one around the idea.

What's Christmas All About? 
Christmas is all about money, food, singing, and presents...or is it? The puppet characters voice their opinions on the meaning of Christmas.

X-Factor 
It's easy, and maybe even common, to miss the "X-Factor" in Christmas today, but this skit reminds us what's important during the hustle and bustle of the "holidays".


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