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Mrs Button: Yes, the children should be here now. (Doorbell rings.)

Mr Button: Come in, boys and girls. (Children enter.)

Children: Where is Betsy?

Mr Button: She has gone to the store.

Mrs Button: Find a place to hide. I will bring the birthday cake. (Children scurry
about and hide behind furniture while MRS BUTTON leaves stage and returns
with cake. She places it on table’, and lights the candles.)

Mr Button: Quick! Here she comes! (As Betsy enters with small cardboard box,
Children jump out at her, crying ‘Surprise! Surprise!’)

Children (Singing): Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you,

Happy birthday, dear Betsy,

Happy birthday to you! If you get a chance to
Betsy: It’s my birthday surprise! distribute food among Let’s connect
poor children on your
Mary: Now you must find your birthday presents. birthday, what kind of treat
would you like to give them?
Tommy: They are all hidden in this room. SDG 2 zero hunger

Susie: We will tell you if you are ‘hot’ or ‘cold’.

(Betsy bends and finds each of the six presents, the Children aiding her in the hunt
by calling ‘hot’ or ‘cold’? As she finds each gift, she reads the card. ‘To Betsy from

Mary’, ‘Happy Birthday from Tommy’, etc. As she puts each gift on the table, she
thanks the donor, who replies with a polite ‘You’re welcome’. When all presents are

found, Mrs Button speaks.)

Mrs Button: The birthday party is from Daddy and me. And here is your cake!

Mr Button: Was it worth waiting for, Betsy?

Betsy: Oh, yes! I didn’t mind waiting after the Fairies told me their secret.

All: What fairies?

Betsy: The Wait-and-See Fairies.

All: What did they tell you?

Betsy: They told me the easiest way to wait for a surprise scurry: to move quickly and
hurriedly, usually with small,
was to plan another surprise for someone else. fast steps
aiding: helping or assisting
Mrs Button: But no one else is having a birthday. someone

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