Church Skits & Plays
A Holy Week and Easter skitAll in Favor6 actors · 6 min

Easter · 6 actors · 6 minutes · Adults, plus one child (6–9)

All in Favor

The Easter Decorating Committee meets beside the cross on Saturday morning. Every motion is kind, every decoration has a good reason, and before long nobody can see the cross. A funny Easter skit for five adults and one small artist that ends with the whole church singing “The Old Rugged Cross.”

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Running time6 minutes
Cast6 roles · Adults, plus one child (6–9)
PrepOne rehearsal, mostly for putting the decorations on and taking them off. The committee reads from agendas and Edna from her notepad, so nobody memorizes a long part.
Best forEaster program; Palm Sunday or Easter Sunday before a sermon on the cross; Holy Week
Scripture1 Corinthians 1:18 (KJV)
ThemeChrist died on a real, rough cross. The power of God is in what He did there, not in anything we put on it.
FormatPrintable PDF

About the skit

It’s Saturday morning, and the Easter Decorating Committee has one item on the agenda: the cross. Tomorrow brings more first-time guests than any Sunday of the year, and the plain wooden cross is, as Gail puts it, “very… wooden.” So Patty moves the nursery’s yellow corner guards, Gail moves lilac tulle (“the most welcoming color there is”), then a bow, then butterflies, and Ron has a banner ready.

Every motion is seconded, every vote goes faster than the last, and Edna reads each one back word for word. Lucy, the chairman’s granddaughter, keeps voting too, and keeps needing new crayons. When the committee steps back to admire its work, she has a question, and what follows lands on 1 Corinthians 1:18.

Five adults and one child (6–9), about six minutes plus “The Old Rugged Cross.” One rehearsal, mostly for the decorations. It’s a comedy, so keep it for an Easter program, Palm Sunday or Easter Sunday rather than Good Friday. The staging notes cover decorations that come off fast, a cross that can’t tip, and how to speed up the votes.

Read the first page

FRANK: (tapping his agenda with a pen) This meeting of the Easter Decorating Committee will come to order. Edna, the time?

EDNA: (writing) Ten-oh-two.

FRANK: We have one item. (He turns to look at the cross. They all do.) The cross.

RON: Tomorrow's Easter. We'll have more first-time guests than any Sunday of the year. Some of them haven't been inside a church since they were kids. Last Easter a man stood at the back through the whole first hymn, just deciding whether to stay.

PATTY: And the first thing they'll see is that. (She points at the cross.)

GAIL: It's very… wooden.

RON: It's a lot of cross.

FRANK: My granddaughter's drawing it for her Sunday school class. Right, Lucy?

LUCY: (holding up one crayon) It's easy. Just brown.

PATTY: (holding up a bandaged finger) I got a splinter carrying it in from the closet. If a four-year-old runs into one of those corners…

FRANK: Is that a motion?

PATTY: I move we put the nursery corner guards on it.

RON: Second.

FRANK: Discussion?

GAIL: What color are they?

PATTY: Yellow. They only come in yellow.

FRANK: Does anyone wish to speak against? (Nobody.) Nobody ever wishes to speak against. All in favor?

THE COMMITTEE: Aye.

LUCY: Aye!

FRANK: You're not on the committee, sweetheart.

EDNA: (reading back) "Moved and seconded: the nursery corner guards, in yellow, on the three ends of the cross that stick out." Carried.

The script continues in the full PDF.

Characters

  • Frank, chairman of the Easter Decorating Committee; motion, second, vote, every time
  • Edna, the secretary, who writes everything down and reads it back word for word
  • Patty, runs the nursery; sees a safety hazard in everything, and is usually right
  • Gail, the decorator, with a craft box for every season and a bow for every occasion
  • Ron, the head greeter, who thinks about first-time guests from the moment he wakes up
  • Lucy, Frank’s granddaughter (6–9), drawing the cross for her Sunday school class

Props

  • A plain wooden cross, 5–7 feet tall, on a weighted stand
  • Five folding chairs, agendas and a notepad for Edna
  • Three yellow foam corner guards from the nursery
  • Lilac tulle, a big bow and a string of paper butterflies
  • A rolled-up WELCOME, FRIENDS! banner
  • Small scissors in Edna’s purse
  • A coloring page and crayons for Lucy

What you get

  • The full script with stage directions
  • Cast list, props list and simple staging notes
  • Four discussion questions for a small group, youth group or Sunday school class
  • Performance rights for your church: perform it as often as you like and print copies for your cast

Performance rights

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