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The Ladybug's Lesson
(A Skit)
by Sandra Harris

Laura's friends have abandoned her. Is Laura a bad friend? Find out what she learns through her grandpa and a ladybug.

This skit can be performed by people or by using puppets. The ladybug is a non-speaking role and can be a prop rather than an actor.

Scene: A garden. A ladybug is off to one side, partially hidden by plants. Three children are busy tending the garden, but one is giving orders and criticizing the work of others.

Laura: Amy, look at what you just did! It’s not good enough. And Ben, what an awful job! Can’t you do anything right? You’ll have to do this over again. Amy, why aren’t you working?

Amy: I cut my finger.

[Grandpa enters at the side, unnoticed by anyone.]

Laura: Let me see it. Hmm, it’s just a tiny cut. It isn’t bad enough for you to stop working. Here, take this and rake leaves for awhile. Ben, why are you just sitting there? Get to work!

Ben: Look here, Laura. I’ve been here for three hours working hard, non-stop. I've had no rest, no food, not even a drink of water. It's hot and I’m tired, we’re all tired. And you want us to keep working but you tell us we’re doing a rotten job. Well, if I’m doing such a rotten job, then I think I should go home. Good-bye, Laura. I hope you find someone who can do it right. I’m just not good enough. [Exit Ben.]

Amy: Ben’s right. I’m just getting in the way. And right now, I really don’t like the way you’re treating me. ‘Bye, Laura. [Exit Amy.]

Laura: (calling after them) Well, if that’s the way you want to behave, then good-bye. I’ll just do it myself and it’ll get done right!

[Laura continues to work, grumbling the entire time about bad friends and having no one to help her and not being liked by anyone.]

Laura: (singing) Nobody likes me, everybody hates me, guess I’ll go eat worms.

[Laura spies a ladybug.]

Laura: Oh, what a beautiful ladybug! Hi, Ladybug! You sure are pretty. Everyone likes you, Ladybug. I wish people liked me. I don’t have a friend in the world right now. Ladybug, will you be my friend?

[Grandpa quietly approaches Laura.]

Grandpa: I’m glad to see you haven’t chased your last friend out of the garden.

Laura: (startled) Oh, Grandpa, you surprised me! Is the ladybug really me friend?

Grandpa: Sure she is. She’s every gardener’s friend.

Laura: Why?

Grandpa: This little bug may be little, but she’s a mighty big helper. She eats all the tiny bugs that harm the plants that we want to grow.

Laura: Is that why everyone likes ladybugs?

Grandpa: That’s one reason. But there’s another reason.

Laura: Tell me, Grandpa, tell me!

Grandpa: Ladybugs don’t sting or bite their friends the way you were doing earlier.

Laura: Me? But Grandpa, I don’t sting, and I didn’t bite anyone. Honest.

Grandpa: No, Laura, you don’t sting like a bee, and you didn’t bite anyone with your teeth, but the way you treated Amy and Ben was very hurtful. They were trying to be helpful but you didn’t appreciate their work. That hurt them very, very much, just like getting stung.

Laura: But they were doing some things wrong!

Grandpa: Have you ever done something wrong?

Laura: Well, yes. But they were hardly working. I had to do all the work!

Grandpa: Laura, be honest: were you doing all of the work, or all of the bossing?

Laura: I guess I was doing all of the bossing. Gee, I wish Amy and Ben would be my friends again. They really were good friends, weren’t they?

Grandpa: Yes, Laura, very good friends.

Laura: Grandpa, how can I be a good friend, like our ladybug friend?

Grandpa: The best way, Laura, is to treat others the way the Bible says to.

Laura: What does the Bible say about friends?

Grandpa: It says a lot about friends – so much that it would take me all day to tell you everything. So, I’ll tell you of two very important things it says. First, it says to treat others the way you want them to treat you.

Laura: You mean like if I want someone to share their toys with me then I should first be willing to share my toys with them.

Grandpa: Right!

Laura: What’s the second thing?

Grandpa: The second one is to honor one another above yourselves.

Laura: What does that mean?

Grandpa: Basically, it means to treat others and think of others as being more important than yourself. Now, don’t misunderstand me. To God, we are all very, very important and no one is more important than anyone else. But God wants us to treat others as if they are important or very special. He wants us to honor others.

Laura: That sounds hard. How can I honor other people?

Grandpa: There’s lots of ways. By being kind and thoughtful. By sharing. By letting others go first. By helping someone do a hard job or an icky job, or by doing a job for them. By saying please and thank you. By caring if they are hurt or sick or tired. By…

Laura: Grandpa, Grandpa! I have an idea! Can we have a party for Ben and Amy?

Grandpa: What kind of a party?

Laura: A Thank-You-for-Being-My-Friend Party! I want to honor them!

Grandpa: What a wonderful idea! Let’s go home and start planning it.

[Exit Laura and Grandpa.]