Each month at Recess, Little Guy and his friends take the stage for a new adventure - a puppet show exploring the theme at the heart of that gathering. These performances are crafted with care, performed live, and then lovingly edited into a 10-15 minute video you can bring home with you. Each video comes paired with Discussion & Reflection Questions - a simple page of questions designed to open conversation across all ages. It's not a lesson plan, but a starting point for a discussion to deepen the impact of the video.
As a story for all-ages or part of a multigenerational worship service
As a launching point for RE classes, youth group, or family spiritual practices
As a resource for congregational small groups or covenant circles
As a simple, joyful gift to yourself or the kids in your life
Each video is available as a digital download for $5, and includes both the edited video and the discussion guide. That's it. Download them, play them, and let the story do what stories do.
Our library is always growing! We upload a new video each month for you to enjoy.
(Already a S&W Community member? These videos are included in your membership.)
Little Guy Puppet Theater videos and accompanying materials are created by Spirit & Whimsy and are shared under a Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial license (CC BY-NC).
This means: You are warmly welcome to use, share, and screen these videos in congregational worship, religious education settings, community gatherings, and personal or family use — as long as you credit Spirit & Whimsy as the creator and do not sell or commercially redistribute the content.
Please credit us as: Little Guy Puppet Theater, created by Spirit & Whimsy
What we ask you not to do: claim the work as your own, remove our credit, or use the videos for commercial purposes without permission.
That's it. Play them. Share them. Let Little Guy into your community. He'll find his way home.
Questions about use? Reach us at info@spiritampwhimsy.com
A place made of leftovers and love.
Somewhere in the magical land of Univelaria (the setting for our summer camp curriculum), there is a small island you won't find on any ordinary map.
Scissor Scrap Island rises from the sea like a patchwork dream - built from the leftover bits of children's art projects. Scraps of construction paper, pipe cleaner bridges, cotton ball clouds, glitter-dusted hillsides, and walls made of cardboard cut into the shapes of something almost-finished. Everything here was once headed for the recycling bin. Everything here was saved by something else entirely: sacred silliness.
Sacred silliness is what happens when play and wonder take root in holy ground. It's the giggle in the middle of a serious moment. It's the child who draws a rainbow on the offering envelope. It's the thing that doesn't quite fit the bulletin but fits the Spirit exactly. On Scissor Scrap Island, sacred silliness isn't a distraction from the sacred - it is the sacred. And it is what breathed life into every scrap, every folded edge, every glitter-covered corner of this world.
This is where Little Guy lives. And this is where every story begins.
Keeper of the Flame of Sacred Silliness
Little Guy began as a handful of construction paper scraps - the kind left behind on a table after an all-ages worship service at a Unitarian Universalist congregation. Some kids had been cutting and creating during the service, and when they went home, their scraps stayed behind.
That night, something happened.
The echoes of the children's laughter, their playfulness, their holy unself-consciousness - all of it had soaked into those small pieces of paper throughout the service. And overnight, that sacred silliness stirred. The scraps shifted, assembled, and became Little Guy; a small chalice figure, made entirely of paper, alive with the spirit of every child who had ever created something beautiful and left a piece of it behind.
He is the Keeper of the Flame of Sacred Silliness - and he takes that role very seriously. (Well. Mostly seriously. He's still a chalice made of paper scraps.)
Little Guy still loves to visit that church. He's never quite left. Congregants sometimes catch a flicker of him out of the corner of their eye during children's time, or spot something small and colorful on the windowsill that wasn't there before. They're probably imagining it. Probably.
But his home - his true home - is Scissor Scrap Island. And it's there, with his friends, that his adventures happen.