Free Christmas Skits

Free Christmas Comedy Skits and Plays
From LoveToKnow Christmas

Finding free Christmas comedy skits and plays for your group is as easy as clicking your mouse. Carefully review them before performing, to make sure you get one with a storyline you feel is appropriate to the occasion.

Let kids use scripts for the Christmas play if they are too young to memorize lines.

Free Christmas Skits

Criteria for Free Christmas Comedy Skits and Plays

Locating a skit is as easy as typing “free Christmas plays” into your Google search box. But once you come up with 150,000 results, how do you know which one is the right play to use? Plays written for 10-year-olds to perform at school functions over breaks, religion-based plays, and hilariously written adult humor plays all have their own audience niche. By reading the synopsis, character list/description, and the first few pages, you should have a good idea of what the play encompasses.

To pick out an appropriate free play, answer the following questions:

* What age group is intended to perform and view the play?
* Is this play religious?
* Are there any off-color jokes/humor?
* How many characters are in the play? Can any of them switch genders easily?
* What kind of costuming is needed?
* How many props do you need to find?
* Does the play require extensive settings?

The kind of activity and group you have will often require different things out of free plays. Your Sunday school class will need to perform an easy Nativity story; the school holiday musical may want to put on a short skit of Christmas around the world; and your adult book group may want to seek out something more theatrical to present at the library.

Using a free play requires no money to be initially invested in the production. Be sure to read the terms and conditions before downloading the work.

Skits and Plays for Kids

Holiday skits for children should have recognizable characters, such as Santa, reindeer, or snowmen. Skits often have a prevailing theme, such as manners, morals, or imparting educational information.

A wide variety of topics are covered in Christmas plays for kids. Think about using these plays for your next children’s group production.

A Christmas Reunion

This play, from Apples4theteacher.com, incorporates nursery rhyme characters along with several other holiday events, such as Thanksgiving and New Years. Several songs are within this play, so have a piano or other accompaniment available. Although not overtly comical, children will get a kick out of seeing storybook characters interact with holiday figures.

Someone is Coming to Our House

This religion-based play is done with animal puppets. Young kids will find it quite funny to hear a child ask if they can bathe in the baptismal font and hear the barnyard animals discuss Jesus’ birthday. Use old sock puppets, make your own out of paper bags, or find plush animal puppets to use for this free skit.

A Good Thing About Christmas

This Scout skit is perfect for scouting groups and other youth programs. The lines are short and easy to remember, and little to no expensive props, sets, or costuming is needed. You could even expand on the skit with your own funny lines in a similar fashion to incorporate the number of kids you have in your group.

Adult Christmas Skits

Plays geared towards adults are often a funny taken on traditional “Christmas spirit” stories. Whether the story desecrates a beloved classic or is just plain funny, they often revolve around humor to keep the audience engaged. Traditional melodramatic plays can be found, but may be harder to stage, and more difficult for those without prior acting experience.

Visit Sunday School Dropouts to get short, funny plays meant for adult audiences. These skits take everything from a Charles Dickens classic to the controversy over the phrase “Happy Holidays” versus “Merry Christmas” to Hannibal Lector and give them a hilarious holiday spin. Website administrators would like to hear from you if you use their skits.

Pick out your play early in the year. Your free Christmas comedy skits and plays will not help you if you do not have time to practice longer scripts and get materials ready. With the busy holiday season, you want to be sure that you have started working on your play before everyone involved gets too busy.