(Props: Aa decorated Christmas tree with a train going around it. Place one table in the centerof the stage with a pretty table cloth on it 1 chair on each end and 3 or 4 chairs placed on the side so that audience can see the people sitting.)
Speaker 3--------------------------------pajamas
Speaker 4--------------------------------wearing red and green
Peter Piper-------------------------------dressed in red and green
(Props: All kinds and sizes of poinsettias, one a plant to be used as the center piece on the table and others to put on the wall or place at the center of the stage.)
Mary Mary Quite Contrary-----------Dress trimmed with bells so she jingles as she walks
Speaker 4--------------------------------Wears an apron
Family for dinner table----------------One with an very large shirt that can be stuffed
Speaker 5--------------------------------Wears an apron
(Props: fruit cake)
Speaker 6--------------------------------Wear a crown
King--------------------------------------Wear a crown, robe and sceptre
Queen------------------------------------Wear a crown and robe
Son----------------------------------------Wear a crown
12 Days of Christmas singers---------long coats and appropriate props
Speaker 7--------------------------------No specific costume
Little child------------------------------pjs and barefoot
MOTHER GOOSE CHRISTMAS RHYMES
(Mother Goose comes in and sits down in a rocking chair on the right side of the stage. She is carrying a huge book that says Christmas Time Nursery Rhymes. The rocking chair is placed in front of the curtain so that the curtain can be shut when necessary.)
MOTHER GOOSE: I am Old Mother Goose
And I like to wander.
I ride through the air
On a very fine gander.
But now it is Christmas
And I’ve a new book.
Christmas Time Nursery Rhymes,
So let’s take a look.
(Opens book and reads)
Let’s see my first new rhyme is,
3 Frantic Moms
(4 students dressed as mothers with coats and hats and a whole bunch of packages come out on stage from the left. One of them is the narrator and goes to the mike on the stage placed by Mother Goose and they read the poem.)
(Stage set up, in the center, a table with different toys, including Chutes and Ladders, and clothes on that the women frantically look at and fight over to purchase.)
FRANTIC MOM: Three frantic moms! See how they run!
They all ran after Thanksgiving Day,
Hoping much, much less to pay,
Better move everything in the way
Of the three frantic moms.
(A policeman comes and escorts the fighting mothers off of the stage.)
(The chorister comes to the front and leads everyone in the song.)
SONG: IT’S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS
(A mother comes in and starts straightening the mess left by the 3 frantic moms. A child follows dragging his blanket and teddy bear. The child goes to the mike and speaks.)
(Speaker 3 goes out and will help Peter Piper carry in the poinsettias while Speaker 4 brings in a Poinsettia and gives to Mother Goose and goes to the mike to speak while the other two decorate the stage using poinsettias. These poinsettias could be paper and placed on the stage or you could make some big ones to hang on already placed hooks on the curtains. Put one poinsettias plant in the center of the table as a center piece.)
ANOTHER SAMPLE LATER ON IN THE PROGRAM
SPEAKER 4: (Comes in laden with poinsettias, and goes to the mike)
Peter Piper picked a pile of
Pretty poinsettias;
A pile of pretty poinsettias
Peter Piper picked.
If Peter Piper picked a pile
Of pretty poinsettias.
How many pretty poinsettias
Did Peter Piper pick?
MOTHER GOOSE: It looks to me like he picked the whole garden.
I hope it wasn’t out of my garden.
PETER PIPER: They were probably not plucked
From your garden, but
I picked plenty of poinsettias
Probably to make a perfect picture.
A perfect Christmas portrait
With poinsettias a plenty.
(Mary, Mary quite contrary skips in from the left side of the stage to the mike. She should have bells attached to her dress.)
