A Gift for Mama
(A play for Mother’s Day)
SPECIFIC VOCABULARY:
family, purse, love, dog, boy, girl,sister, brother, gift, three, mother,surprise
TEACHER:
Practice the “th”sound:
three, mother, Samantha, Timothy,
brother, thought.
SETTING:
a living room in a home of the characters
outside the home in the garden
CHARACTERS:
Narrator, Samantha, Timothy, Mother, Junior
(a German Shepherd dog)
THE PLAY:
NARRATOR: It istwo weeks before Mother’s Day. Samantha and Tim, her
brother, are talking with each other.
SAMANTHA: Mother’s Day will be in two weeks, Tim. What gift can we give to Mother?
TIM: I don’t know . Let’s ask Junior.
Hey, Junior, what would Mama like for a gift?
JUNIOR: WOOF, WOOF, WOOF….
SAMANTHA: You are so silly. Dogs don’t talk.
TIM: Yes, they do. Junior, what did you say? Tell me again.
JUNIOR: WOOF, WOOF, WOOF….
TIM: See, Samantha…Juniorspoke……in dog talk.
SAMANTHA: Yes, but what doesit mean?
Let’s go ask Mama whatshe wantsfor a Mother’s Day gift..
BOTH CHILDREN: MAMA! MAMA! (Mother walks quickly into the room.)
MOTHER: Issomething wrong, Samantha and Timothy?
BOTH CHILDREN: We want to know what gift you want for Mother’s Day.
MOTHER: Hmmm… Let me think for a minute. Hmmmmm… I know
what I would like!
BOTH CHILDREN: What? Tell us, please!
MOTHER: I would love something that you make with your own
hands.
SAMANTHA: But, like what, Mama. Give us an idea.
MOTHER: No, you need to decide for yourselves. I like surprises.
NARRATOR: Samantha and Tim went outside to sit with Junior and to think.
BOTH CHILDREN: What can we make? What can we make?
JUNIOR: WOOF! WOOF! WOOF!
NARRATOR: The two children, with their dog, Junior,sat, and sat, and
thought, and thought.
SAMANTHA: I have a great idea, Tim!
TIM: What isit ?
SAMANTHA: Why don’t we make Mama a cute little purse out of paper?
TIM: What willshe do with a paper purse? That’s a silly idea!
SAMANTHA: It will not be just an ordinary purse. It will be a special purse with a special note inside.
TIM: What kind of a note?
SAMANTHA: A note with the best words a mother wantsto hear.
TIM: Mama said that anything made with love is a great gift.
SAMANTHA: We will make a paper purse, and put a note inside that we write with gold orsilver ink.
TIM: What will we write on the note?
SAMANTHA: The nicest three wordsin English…..
TIM: What words ?
SAMANTHA: I LOVE YOU.
JUNIOR: WOOF! WOOF! WOOF!
TIM: Did you listen, Samantha? Junior just barked “I LOVE YOU.”
NARRATOR: Tim and Samantha worked quietly. When they were done making the purse, they took a pen with gold ink, and two pieces of paper that they cut into two heart shapes. On one heart Samantha wrote: “I LOVE YOU, MAMA, Love, Samantha”. On the other heart Tim wrote: “I LOVE YOU MAMA, Love, Tim.”
SAMANTHA: Let’s put these away until Mother’s Day, Tim.
TIM: OK. Samantha.
NARRATOR: The two weeksflew quickly. On Mother’s Day, Mother received the little paper purse her children made. She wasso happy when she saw the two notesinside.
MOTHER: I love you , too, Samantha and Tim. Thisisthe best gift I could ever receive!
JUNIOR: WOOF! WOOF! WOOF!
I LOVE YOU ALL!
TIM: I told you Junior could talk!
EVERYONE: (LAUGHING…)
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