Teatro Navidad

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Written by Leanne Guenther
I think this could easily be expanded into a simple play. You could start with two people dressed in cozy warm clothes -- mom and two children having a similarconversation (or you could expand to a mom, a dad and a child and give some of the mom lines to the dad)
Child 1 (looking sad), "Mom, we can't have Christmas this year"
Mom (looking puzzled), "Whynot dear?"
Child 2 , "Because it makes me sad that we get to have Christmas and people in Hawaii don't"
Mom (suppressing a giggle), "Um, why wouldn't people in Hawaii get to have Christmas?"
Bothchildren together (emphatically), "Because they don't have any snow!"
Mom, "You don't need snow to have Christmas!" (you can add, "in fact, there was no snow where Baby Jesus was born")
... then singMele Kalikimaka (A Hawaiian Song)
Depending on how large your group is, you could have the group singing this song dress up in Hawaiian outfits and do a bit of a hula dance (check out our luausection) or you could just have a few of the group members in Hawaiian outfits move to the front during this part.
Child 2, "oh... well I guess that's ok then..."
Mom, "so we can have Christmas now?"Two children look at each other and shake their heads slowly
Child 1, "No, I still don't think it's fair..."
Mom, "How come?
Child 1, "...because people in Australia can't have Christmas"
Mom(startled), "Whatever made you think that!"
(children get increasingly excited/convinced during the following:
Child 1, "Well... it's really hot..."
Child 2, "Yeah! 'cause it's summer there right now"Child 1, "And Santa wears those fur lined boots and all..."
Child 1, "And the reindeer are used to the North Pole..."
Child 2, "It's really cold there you know! The reindeer couldn't stand theheat!"
Both children, "You can't have Christmas without Reindeer!"
Mom, "You don't need Reindeer to have Christmas!"
... then sing
Six White Boomers or Roo Roo the Red Nosed Kangaroo
Here you can...