Easter Skits for Kids

Compare them at a glance

Each skit is $8 and needs one rehearsal at most, and one purchase covers every performance at your church. Four more scripts on this page are for a mixed cast: Where the Bench Stood and Royal Arrival Protocol for Palm Sunday, each with one child’s part; The Password, where a child or teen plays the colt, with no lines; and the all-ages program Three Roads, where six children have short lines and every child can join the crowd. Get an email when new skits for kids are out:

When you don’t know how many children will come

On Easter Sunday a children’s ministry can plan for eight children and get three, or get twenty because the cousins are in town. Choose a skit by how far it stretches:

Give the speaking parts to the children who come every week, and keep the crowd parts, mice, chicks and palm wavers, open for whoever walks in that morning.

Who says how much: lines for every role

A line here is one turn to speak. Most are a single short sentence.

How to match a part to a child’s age

Ages 3–5: parts without lines

Give preschoolers something to do, not something to say. In The Great Big Egg they are mice who follow the narrator; in The Shortest Sermon they are the women who run from the tomb; in The First Passover the youngest who can talk asks three short questions, none longer than four words. Keep a helper at the end of their row and take them off the stage together.

Ages 6–8: short lines and a costume

A chick, a hen, a basket, a palm branch and a line to shout: this is the age for the smaller parts in The Easter Audition and the crowd in Tell Them to Be Quiet. Lines that answer someone are easier than lines that start a scene.

Ages 9–11: the parts that carry the skit

Older children can take the angels in The Shortest Sermon, Wayne the donkey, Lazarus, Pharaoh or Leo in The Fastest Fast. Where the character would hold something, a scroll, a decree, a sign, let the lines live on it and skip the memorizing.

Telling children about the cross

Easter for children can’t skip Good Friday, and it doesn’t have to frighten anyone. Our skits say it the way you would at bedtime: in a sentence or two, truthfully, and then on to Sunday morning. Nobody is crucified on stage, and no child plays Jesus. The Great Big Egg tells it to preschoolers through an empty egg; The Easter Audition through the one lamb willing to take somebody else’s place; The First Passover through the blood of the lamb on the door, which Paul ties to Christ “our passover.” The angels in The Shortest Sermon quote Luke 24, that He must “be crucified, and the third day rise again,” and the Palm Sunday skits stop before the cross. For a Good Friday service itself, see our Good Friday plays for adults.

Easter bunny or empty tomb?

Children know the bunny, the eggs and the chicks, and a skit can use them without letting them win. In The Easter Audition the bunny, the hen, the chick and the butterfly all audition to be the symbol of Easter, and each one leaves when the last requirement is read out. In The Great Big Egg a big plastic egg turns out to be empty, and the Oldest Mouse explains why empty is good news. Both get the laughs early and come to Scripture before the end.

Palm Sunday skits for kids

Palm Sunday is the children’s day in many churches, with a procession down the aisle. Three skits lead straight into it: The Loudest Hosanna (Lazarus would rather stay in bed, because everyone comes to look at him), Wayne Is Tied Up (the colt is tied to a post marked SIN, and one sentence sets him loose) and Tell Them to Be Quiet (a worried man tries to hush the crowd, and the children copy him half a second late until the whole church is shouting). For a mixed cast, try Where the Bench Stood or Royal Arrival Protocol.

Skits for Lent, Holy Week and after Easter

• Lent: The Fastest Fast. Leo reads “fast” in the bulletin and goes for a speed record, until he hears how long Jesus fasted in the wilderness.
• Holy Week: The First Passover, a clap-along story of Moses and Pharaoh with the whole congregation on the refrain, until the beat stops at the blood on the door. Good for a family night or VBS.
• After Easter: That Was My Fish. The risen Jesus visits His friends, they have questions, and every answer comes from Scripture, including what happened to somebody’s fish.

One rehearsal is enough

Easter 2027 falls on March 28 and Palm Sunday on March 21, so send the lines home by March 14 for Palm Sunday, or March 21 for Easter. Here is the whole plan:

1. One week out: send the lines homeOnly the children with real parts need them. Highlight their lines and add a note for parents: the date, the call time and what to wear.
2. One rehearsal, about thirty minutesPractice where everyone stands and walks first, then the lines. Children remember places better than words. None of our nine children’s skits needs more than this.
3. On the morning: a quick walk-throughTen minutes before the service, walk it once in the room with the props, and fit in the children who just arrived as mice, chicks or palm wavers.
4. During the skit: a helper in the front rowA leader sits in the front row with the script, where the children can see, and quietly feeds any forgotten line. The child repeats it and carries on.

A longer program with children and adults

For an Easter evening or a family service, Three Roads puts children from four to twelve on stage with adults: they wave branches down the aisle on Palm Sunday, six of them have one or two lines, and adults carry the long scenes. It runs 25 minutes with four hymns. More full programs are in Easter Plays for Church.

A free Easter skit with one child’s part

Field Notes on Easter is free: two researchers from the year 2526 arrive at your Easter service to prove it was a spring candy festival. Teens and adults play the leads, and one child of six to nine has six short lines. For more scripts with adults, see Easter Skits for Church.