A Short Scripture Skit By Norm Barnhart
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This fun routine uses the lollipops prop. A dealer item you can find easily if you need one. It’s a special gimmicked lollipop that will let you apparently show 4 different flavored lollipops and put them into a bag and then one is taken out and kept by you and the child can have any of the other three, but the bag is discovered to be empty and they have vanished. So you can take one out of your pocket and give it to them instead.

The change I have made to this routine is that I’ll put a Heresy (or other) candy bar into the small bag and fold it as flat as possible. The special lollipop trick is in the bag also.

The following is played in sort of a bubbling clown style and they enjoy your confusion as you keep giving the choices to the child. Begin by opening the bag, and the bring out and show the red lollipop. “I have a nice treat for this assistant today. You can choose the one you’d like, but we’ll make it like a game so you’ll reach in to this bag without looking and try to find your favorite. Here is a red lollipop. It looks yummy, you might want to have a red one, but when you reach in to the bag, who knows, you might get something different – like this yellow lemon lollipop. I think it will taste like lemon-aid, or maybe you’ll get this orange lollipop, my favorite! Or maybe you’ll get a green lollipop. You know I sort of like green lime so I’ll take that and put it in my pocket but you can have a free choice of any of the other three. Yellow – lemon, red – cherry or yummy orange. Which one do you hope you’ll get?”

The child says whatever flavor they’d like, so for this example they pick orange.
You say, “Oh, you like orange, I do too.” Here is where the laughs start. “OK reach up into the bag and see if you can get orange without looking.” Just as they begin to reach in, pull the bag away and comment, “Would you still be happy if you get a lemon – yellow one?” The child nods, “Because you may not get your favorite, but that would be ok?”

The youngster begins to reach into the bag again and you pull it back again and say, “Oh no, what if you got a red one, and you wanted orange, would that be ok?” They nod. You bring bag into their reach again and they start to reach in and then you pull it back and with a thoughtful look, you say, “You know this is a little like prayer. Sometimes we pray for one thing and we don’t always get exactly what we want. The Bible tells us that if we pray according to God’s will we will receive what we ask for. God knows what is best for us. Sometimes we even get something different that what we ask for. But that is ok right?”

Once more the bag is lowered, as you say, “Cindy will reach in and try to get the one she wants – orange.” Just as Cindy’s hand begins to go in pull bag back and quickly say, “You might get a red one – is that ok?” She nods, lower the bag, and then you again quickly pull the bag back again, “you might get a purple one, is that ok?” she nods – “Cindy is a good girl, she can appreciate what she gets even if it’s not the orange one.” Turn to her, “are you ready?” She nods, lower bag, then snap the bag back up, and turn to audience, “are you ready?” They will laugh, grown and say yes in frustration.

Finally she is allowed to reach into the bag and she pulls out – A regular sized Hershey Bar! A big surprise! “Hey the lollipops are all gone, (show bag empty) but look at what Cindy got, turn to Cindy and ask, “Do you like this more than a lollipop?” (If not reach into your pocket and give her a real lollipop – but I’ve never had this happen, just be prepared.)

“Wow, a Candy bar is different, and even better than a lollipop. This is a little like prayer, some times we ask God for one thing, but he will give us something even better. Wow, isn’t God good!”

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Norman the Clown can be found at: http://aces-show.biz/normantheclown