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The Right Path
(A Skit)
by Sandra Harris

This is a three-person skit or puppet show. For props, use trunks from the craft project.

Narrator: It was hot and the trail was dusty, but the long line of elephants shuffled on. They had eaten all of the food available at their old campground, and the water supply had been getting low. It was time for them to move on to another of their favorite spots where there would be plenty of food and water.

Most of the elephants were walking single file the way they were supposed to, some holding onto the tail of the elephant in front with their trunk. But not Eddie and Elmer. These two young elephants were walking at the end of the line, side by side, as best friends often do. And, as friends often do, they were talking.

Eddie: It sure is hot today. I’d rather be swimming in a lake or rolling around in some mud than walking in this dust.

Elmer: Boy, me too! How long do you think we’ll have to keep walking?

Eddie: Mom said it would take three more days to get to where we’re going.

Elmer: Three more days! I won’t last that long! I’ll be nothing but a dried up old raisin by then! Is she sure?

Eddie: Yeah, she’s sure. She said it always takes exactly five days to get there, and this is only our second day.

Elmer: Ugh! Three more days of sun and dust! I want to go back. At least there was some water back at our old spot.

Eddie: (deep sigh) I agree. Some water is better than none.

Narrator: Feeling miserable, the two friends fell silent. They were shuffling along, following the others, when Elmer suddenly raised his trunk high into the air.

Elmer: Eddie, look up ahead! There’s a fork in the road!

Eddie: What’s so exciting about a fork in the road? We don’t even eat with forks.

Elmer: Not that kind of a fork. I mean the path splits into two paths.

Eddie: So?

Elmer: So, everyone up ahead is taking the path on the right.

Eddie: Well, that’s the path we’re supposed to take.

Elmer: But that path will take us three more days to reach water.

Eddie: Then we’ll just have to wait three more days to take a bath.

Elmer: But I’ll bet the other path will get us there faster, maybe even by tonight!

Eddie: If it was faster then we’d all be going that way instead of the other way.

Elmer: Aw, we just go to the right because that’s the way elephants have always gone. It’s time to try a new way. C’mon!

Eddie: No. My father said to stay in line and follow the others. I’m going this way, and you had better come this way, too.

Elmer: And suffer for three more days? Not me. I can just smell the water down this other path! C’mom, Eddie, we can beat everyone to the water.

Eddie: No, Elmer. I’m taking the right path. The other one is wrong and you know it.

Elmer: Well, suit yourself. While you’re taking dust baths for the next three days, I’ll be splashing in clean, cool water! See you later.

Narrator: Eddie tried to talk his friend into staying on the right path, but Elmer wouldn’t listen. Instead, Elmer went shuffling down the wrong path all by himself. Eddie hurried down the right path, trying to catch up with the others. Three long, hot, tiring days later, Eddie and the other elephants arrived at their new home. There was lots of food and a big, big lake. Eddie jumped into the water and took a long drink. Then he showered water all over his dry, dusty body. All day, Eddie looked for his friend, but Elmer was nowhere to be found. Elmer really had taken the wrong path.

(Note: We’ll find out what happens to Elmer in the next lesson.)