Otherwise known as "Trimming the Tree" in the Leader magazine. Text from The Best of the Leader Cut Out

Pages.

Cast: Mother, Father, Child, scout staff with sprig of evergreen lashed to the top; materials to make snipping

and sawing sounds (you can pre-record these on cassette tape.)

Setting: Kitchen

Mother is on stage, father and child out of sight.

Father tells child to go ask mother how the tree looks.

Child runs onstage and asks.

Mother peers through imaginary kitchen window, hints and says it needs more off this side.

Child runs off stage and repeats her directions. Sounds of sawing, snipping, etc.

Repeat several times, with mother pointing in different directions each time, father perhaps becoming impatient,

and child becoming more and more tired. Finally many sounds of sawing and snipping. Father marches on stage

with staff, show it to mother and audience.

Father: Now is it right?!?