The Reflectionary

The Resurrection told in Chocolate Bars

You are a Roman soldier telling what happened on the first Easter morning. Have all the chocolate bars laid out in order and hold them up at the appropriate moments. The egg should be one that comes in two halves so that you can open it to show the empty inside. The punch line should be pronounced to sound like a cheery ‘Hello’.

This was first posted in 2017. An updated version with a slightly different ending is in the book A Bucketful of Ideas for Church Dramas (link below).

30 Pieces of Chocolate

It was one Saturday night, After Eight, and me and my mate, Freddo, were being paid a Bounty to guard this tomb. “Guard a tomb?” you say. Yeah that’s a Whole Nut of an idea, I know.

There was this guy, see. We’d executed him on the Friday, but he had said and he would come back to life so we were there to make sure he stayed dead! No really, I’m not Lion! You think that’s mad? Join the Club!

Now my mate is a bit of a Smartie, so while we’re stood, guarding a dead body, he says, ‘Why don’t we have Picnic?’ And I thought, “Well, why not? I could do with some Time Out.”

So we sat down and we ate our sandwiches – Crème egg and cress for me, then Chomping some Fruit and Nut for one of me five-a-day, all washed down with a nice big glass of Dairy Milk.

Anyway, back on the Topic. After our food we were Flaked out and … well … I’m not going to Fudgethe facts, we fell asleep. I know we shouldn’t have, but we did. We loosened our Buttons, pulled off our Snickers (that’s sneakers, not knickers!), and lay down under the Milky Way.

Next thing I know, there’s a Crunchie sound, like when you Rolo way a stone. I sat bolt upright and … ‘What Kinder Surprise is this?’ I said. I couldn’t have been more shocked if a Penguin had arrived on a Double Decker bus!

So what was it, this surprise? Only an angel – clothes all Milky Bar white and hair all Curly Wurly – just sat there, on top of the stone! And the tomb was open! [open hollow egg]

Me and my mate, we were in a complete Twirl –  we were so scared we called for our Mars – but just before we fainted clean away we heard a Ripple of fabric from the tomb. Seems the dead guy wasn’t so dead after all! I heard a Wispa as he stepped out. He winked at me and said, “Aero, mate!” [faints in to chair]

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A note for my North American and Australasian readers:
The Reflectionary is based in the good old UK, and the chocolate bars lists are those commonly available over here. If you have trouble sourcing them where you are, please feel free to ammend / omit parts as necessary.

This post was first published on 2017 and is the basis for the script in ‘A Bucketful of Ideas for Church Drama’ 

 

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Bible Text

Matthew 28:1-10 Christian Standard Bible

After the Sabbath, as the first day of the week was dawning, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to view the tomb. There was a violent earthquake, because an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and approached the tomb. He rolled back the stone and was sitting on it. His appearance was like lightning, and his clothing was as white as snow. The guards were so shaken by fear of him that they became like dead men.

The angel told the women, “Don’t be afraid, because I know you are looking for Jesus who was crucified. He is not here. For he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay. Then go quickly and tell his disciples, ‘He has risen from the dead and indeed he is going ahead of you to Galilee; you will see him there.’ Listen, I have told you.”

So, departing quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, they ran to tell his disciples the news. Just then Jesus met them and said, “Greetings!” They came up, took hold of his feet, and worshipped him. Then Jesus told them, “Do not be afraid. Go and tell my brothers to leave for Galilee, and they will see me there.”

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