Larrikin Puppets are award-winning Australian children’s entertainers! We perform colourful and exciting puppet shows, songs and stories for stage and screen. We also deliver fun, educational and interactive puppetry workshops.
Our fast-paced, feel-good puppetry encourages audiences to talk, play, sing, and dance along. Our shows feature zany characters, catchy songs, and celebrate fun, kindness and diversity while nurturing child development.
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Show Launch! Zietta and the Little Larrikins – 24 May 2026
We’re launching a new stage show at the 2026 Anywhere Festival Moreton Bay at Redcliffe Entertainment Centre at 3.30pm on Sunday 24 May. TICKETS HERE!
Set in the bush by the beach, Zietta and the Little Larrikins is a vibrant live musical stage show featuring puppets that celebrates culture, connection, and creativity. Packed with humour, heart, and wide-eyed wonder, the show invites children to laugh, sing, and explore alongside Zietta and her playful puppet friends, both local and intergalactic.
Get your $5 tickets to our show launch (made super affordable thanks to City of Moreton Bay Council support!). TICKETS HERE!
Zietta and the Little Larrikins is being made possible through an RADF Creative Cities Grant. The Regional Arts Development Fund is a partnership between the Queensland Government and City of Moreton Bay to support local arts and culture in regional Queensland.
Thank you City of Moreton Bay and Arts Queensland/Queensland Government for supporting Elissa’s arts practice
Larrikin Puppets at Melbourne International Comedy Festival!
In April this year, Larrikin Puppets made its Melbourne debut at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, presenting their interactive Kids Comedy Puppet Show at Kindred Studios in Yarraville.
Across 16 performances, the colourful, high-energy show saw 500+ children and families join a laugh-out-loud puppet party packed with comedy skits, original songs and audience interaction.
The show starred big blue monster Troggg, his adorable little sister Marina, and a cast of hilarious puppet friends in a fast-paced performance filled with playful mayhem, silly comedy and catchy tunes.
The Melbourne season also featured the launch of our new original song Power Power, culminating in a surprise grand finale featuring up to 100 puppets in a colourful celebration of “puppet power”!
A big thank you to all the families and friends who attended! We had a ball!
New Videos On Our Kids YouTube Channel! Watch Old MacDonald Had A Farm, The Wheels On The Bus and Baby Shark now!
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Support Yompers: A New Puppet TV Series Pilot by Larrikin Puppets
What is Yompers?
Set in a magical, multi-species community of animals, plants and humans, Yompers are a group of four friends, each one being a vulnerable animal of the world. They work, play and perform together.
Yompers follows the social lives of children who attend a whimsical, multi-species vacation care run by four wise, but hilarious Yompers who bring insight, peace, love and laughter. It takes a Yomper to raise a community. Each Yomper carries a heavy load – a colourful backpack. Each of them has something special inside their backpacks that is revealed to progress the story.
Their calling is to impart wisdom to some of the youngest humans on earth in a super fun way, supporting them to understand important and exciting ideas in the areas of HASS (Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences).
Yompers will be a TV series and a live puppet show. Show your support HERE to help make that happen!
Yompers is being created to engage, educate and entertain children aged 7 and under. It will also act as a worthwhile and welcome resource to support educators, parents and carers with high quality early years and early primary education in the area of HASS.
Larrikin Puppets appear in Miss Nicky Says music video!
Larrikin Puppets presented a talk at TEDx Brisbane!
Elissa and Troggg presented a talk at the highly acclaimed TEDx Brisbane on 14 October 2023.
The theme for TEDx Brisbane 2023 was ‘The Power of Intention’. What is our intention when it comes to the art of puppetry?
A big thanks to Juanita, Rob and everyone at TEDxBrisbane for your support in rehearsing and producing our talk. It was an experience we’ll never forget! Watch the talk below:
Our Services
Our puppeteers – married couple Brett Hansen and Elissa Jenkins – have received advanced training in the USA under Jim Henson puppeteers from The Muppets and Sesame Street! We provide our zany and always crowd pleasing comedy-variety puppet show, themed puppet shows, story time puppet shows, a puppet MC service, puppetry for film and TV, a sock puppet making craft workshop, and hands on puppetry performance training workshops!
We are available to visit schools, libraries, festivals, childcare, vacation care, pubs, clubs, shopping centres and children’s events. We perform week to week across South-East Queensland and enjoy touring regionally, across Australia and internationally.
If you’d like to see Larrikin Puppets on TV you can support the Larrikin Puppets on Patreon.
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Larrikin Puppets Wins BEST KIDS LIVE SHOW At 2021 National Industry Awards
Larrikin Puppets won BEST KIDS LIVE SHOW at 2021’s national What’s On 4 Kids Awards!
We also won two additional awards for Best Local School Aged Activity (5-12 years) – People’s Choice Winner and Highly Commended.
HUGE thank you all our fans who voted in the people’s choice component and to the judges who selected us as WINNERS for Best Live Kids Show!
- Best Kids Live Show sponsored by What’s on 4 Kids.
- Best Local School Aged Activity (5-12 years) sponsored by Australian Children’s Activities Association.
