The Popularity of Easter Plays

Easter is one of those times of years that many children are involved in plays. Whether for church or for school or for some other extracurricular activity, many children’s plays end up falling on or near Easter. Usually, religious Easter plays depict some aspect of the Easter story, such as the discovery of Jesus by Mary Magdalene. There are many ways your child can get involved with an Easter play, religiously themed or otherwise. It’s a great experience for a child to be involved with a play, and stick it out through the line memorization and all.

The main venue for Easter plays is with your church. If your child goes to a Sunday school class, you should enquire about their plays, and see if there will be anything going on during the Easter holiday. Church Easter plays generally depict some part of the Easter story. They are often musicals as well, alternating between singing parts and regular acting. This will usually require a commitment not only on the part of the child, but also from you. You will have to take your child to practice regularly, and probably attend a few dress rehearsals.

The production itself will usually be a fairly big deal, and may even occur during the church service on Easter Sunday. The children will have to get up in front of all the adults, and deliver their lines. It may be intimidating for the children, but will hopefully teach them how to be confident in front of adults, which is a skill that will benefit them forever. Usually no Easter play is complete without some sort of embarrassing mishap. Some poor kid will forget his lines, or some girl will trip on her costume and bite the dust on the stage. If this happens to your child, you should stress that there is no reason to be embarrassed.

Overall, practicing for and performing an Easter play is a good experience not only for the children involved, but also for the adults that assist in putting it on. Lots of practice goes into them, it will be good for your child to stick with a project until it is over with. So find out about the Easter play projects offered by your church, and try to get your child involved. If he or she isn’t in to the concept, you should keep bringing it up and be fairly adamant about it.