PUPPET 1:

(Enters excited) Oh boy! Oh boy! Oh boy! Oh boy! Easter is here. I can        hardly wait to eat all those Easter eggs.

PUPPET 2:

(Enters) Hi! What are you so excited about?

PUPPET 1:

I was just thinking about Easter. It's today, you know!

PUPPET 2:

Yeah, I know, and everyone sure is excited. But I'm just not sure about        something... Tell me, what's Easter all about, anyway?

PUPPET 1:

(Shocked) Don't you know? It's all about getting Easter eggs and        chocolate bunnies with marshmallow centres or caramel inside, or maybe        those ones with smarties, or have you seen those huge ones made of white chocolate! Oh, they're my favourite.

PUPPET 2:

Yeah, sure, but what's that got to do with Easter? Why do we get Easter        eggs?

PUPPET 1:

Why? Why? Because they taste good, silly. Hey, I gotta go. I can hear        them getting ready for the Easter egg hunt. (Exits, puppet 2 looks        puzzled, puppet 3 enters)

PUPPET 3:

(Enters) Hi, what're you doing?

PUPPET 2:

I was just trying to work out what Easter is all about. Someone told me it's all about Easter eggs. But I think there's got to be more to it than that.

PUPPET 3:

(Thinks) Well, let me see. Easter? Hm...I know! It's a holiday from school!

PUPPET 2:

Yeah, but why?

PUPPET 3:

I don't know. (Thinks some more)  I know, let's ask somebody.

PUPPET 2:

Good idea. Who should we ask?

PUPPET 3:

Ah... (Looking around, spots person in audience) What about that        person over there, I bet he/she know lots of stuff.

PUPPET 2:

(Looking at audience) Which one?

PUPPET 3:

(Pointing) The one sitting over there!

PUPPET 2:

(Looking hard, doubtfully) Are you sure he/she knows lots of stuff?

PUPPET 3:

Well, he/she might know. Let's ask. (Calls out) Hey you!

PERSON:

Who, me?      

PUPPET  3:

Yes, you! We've got an important question for you.

PERSON:

(Stands) What's that?

PUPPET 3:

Well, we want to know what Easter is all about. Some people say it's for        getting Easter eggs and we know that we always have a holiday, but        there must be something more to it than that.

PERSON:

(Going to puppets) Well, you're right there. There's a  lot more to Easter        than just eggs.

PUPPET 2:

(Smugly to puppet 3) See, I told you!

PERSON:

Easter is when we remember how God sent his Son Jesus to die on the        cross for us.

PUPPET 3:

You mean Jesus is DEAD!

PERSON:

No, not any more! Three days after he died he came alive again.

PUPPET 3:

He came alive! That's amazing.

PERSON:

It sure is. It amazed his friends too when it happened. They were so        amazed and impressed that they wrote down the whole story in the Bible.        They told us about how he had died and had been buried in a rock cave with a huge rock in front of it. That was on Friday, but then on Sunday morning there he was walking around alive.

PUPPET 2:

Wow!

PERSON:

But the best part was that Jesus promised that, because he had died and risen again, anyone who believed in him would also share in his new life.

PUPPET 2:

Anyone? Even people like us?

PERSON:

Especially people like you.

PUPPET 3:

I still don't get something. If Easter is all about Jesus, why do we have        Easter eggs?

PERSON:

That's easy. What comes out of an egg?

PUPPET 2:

Scrambled eggs?

PUPPET 3:

No, a chicken.

PERSON:

Right, a chicken, a brand new baby chicken, a new life!

PUPPET 2:

(Not to be left out) Or a duck, or a goose, or a turkey!

PERSON:

That's right too.

PUPPET 2:

Or a sparrow, or an eagle!

PERSON:

Right.

PUPPET 2:

(Getting carried away) Or a crocodile, or an echidna or even a platypus!

PERSON:

(Rolling eyes at audience) OK, we get the idea! The point is that they're        all a new life. Easter eggs are a reminder that we can have new life too if we believe in Jesus.

PUPPET 3:

Oh, I get it. They help us remember what Easter is really all about.

PUPPET 2

There's just one last thing I don't understand.

PERSON:

What's that?

PUPPET 2:

If all this stuff about Easter is true, why did the chicken cross the road?       (All laugh and exit)