Larrikin Puppets are performing a puppet show about kindness and anti-bullying today at Wagner Road Early Childhood Centre and Kindergarten in Clayfield. 
You can find out more about our childcare centre puppet shows here:
Month: March 2019
Larrikin Puppets at Stella’s 2nd Birthday Party in North Lakes
2nd Birthday Party Puppet Show in North Lakes
This is an archived blog post.
Please note that as of 2026, Brett Hansen no longer performs birthday party shows solo.
Larrikin Puppets birthday party performances are now presented by our professional team.
For all current information, packages, pricing and availability, please visit:
Party Entertainment Brisbane – Kids Parties
In March 2019, Brett performed a puppet show for Stella’s 2nd birthday party in North Lakes.
2nd birthday parties are a beautiful milestone celebration, and puppet shows are a gentle, joyful and highly engaging way to entertain little ones and their families.
What the Birthday Party Show Included
The show featured 30 minutes of age-appropriate songs, games, jokes, sketches and lively audience interaction, inspired by the playful performance style of Sesame Street and The Muppets.
Following the show, children enjoyed:
- A short demonstration explaining how the puppets work
- A meet and greet with Troggg the blue monster
- Photo opportunities for families
The full experience ran for approximately 45 minutes.
Event Setup
The puppeteer arrived approximately one hour prior to showtime to set up the stage, sound equipment, props and puppets. After the performance and meet and greet, pack down followed.
The show was designed to be flexible and could be performed in backyards, homes, parks, halls and community venues.
Larrikin Puppets was recognised as a Finalist in the Best Party Entertainer category at the national What’s On 4 Kids Awards 2017.
For current birthday party packages, travel areas and pricing details, please visit:
Larrikin Puppets visit Little Diggers Early Learning Centre in Morayfield
Brett Hansen from Larrikin Puppets is heading off to Little Diggers Early Learning Centre in Morayfield to perform a colourful and fun puppet show for everyone!
Brett Hansen and Elissa Jenkins, along with their troupe of friendly and funny puppet characters provide top quality entertainment and fun for childcare and early learning centres all over Brisbane, Ipswich, the Sunshine Coast and Gold Coast!
You can find out more about our colourful and exciting childcare puppet shows here:
Description:
We present a colourful and exciting puppet show for childcare / early learning centres, featuring zany Muppet-style characters performing age appropriate songs, skits, jokes, games and live interaction with the audience. The puppets encourage the audience to dance, sing and play along. Creative play is very important for the 0-5 year age groups. We then present a “How the puppets work” demonstration at the end.
Total duration: 45 minutes.
Educational content – such as sharing, kindness, exercise, looking after the environment and healthy eating – can also be requested in your booking enquiry. Educational shows require the two puppeteers. In most cases we are booked to perform our regular fun and exciting early learning centre puppet show which celebrates creative play!
We also offer Story Time with Larrikin Puppets at childcare centres / early learning centres, which is a segment where Elissa reads a children’s book by an Australian author, while Troggg, Frazzamatazz and friends play along and interact with the story. More details about our story time segment here.
Inclusions:
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30 minute puppet show of songs, games, jokes and comical interaction with the audience.
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5 minute “How the puppets work” demonstration.
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5-10 minute puppet meet-and-greet / Photo opportunity with Troggg the blue monster.
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Time allowance for travel to and from, set-up and pack-up of the puppet stage, props, puppets and sound equipment.
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Rehearsal time prior to the event.
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Quality characters.
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Quality puppetry.
Professional Development and Formal Training:
Brett and Elissa have completed three months of professional development in the USA, which included advanced, formal training with Jim Henson puppeteers from The Muppets and Sesame Street.
Blue Card and Insurance:
Brett’s Blue Card number is 1161011/3, Elissa’s is 690261/3. We have public liability insurance through Duck For Cover Entertainers Insurance.
Puppetry Workshop: Extra-Curricular Speech and Drama
With great delight, we have been visiting Citipointe Christian College Carindale annually to run our puppetry performance workshop as part of their Extra-Curricular Speech and Drama classes.
We teach the basic techniques that bring Muppet-style puppet characters to life in an interactive workshop.
Students get a chance to practice puppetry techniques using real puppets.
This is a beginner level class. No previous puppetry experience is required. Our workshops range from 45 minutes to 1 hour.
If you would like to book a puppetry workshop as part of your Extra-Curricular Speech and Drama lessons at school, vacation care, libraries or theatres, please contact us to discuss.
Inclusions:
– Introduction / Different types of puppetry.
– 10 minute puppet show demonstration.
– Show and Tell – How the different puppets work.
– Practical Workshop, teaching; Lip sync, Eye focus, Puppets talking to each other, Walking and running the puppets, Arm movements (waving, scratching, covering mouth, high fives, etc.), Emotions/Gestures without dialogue, Emotions/Gestures with dialogue, Assistant puppetry for arms, Assistant puppetry for right hand of ‘live hands’ puppets, Dancing to rhythms while lip syncing to vocals.
– Opportunity to perform and demonstrate to the class.
– Time allowance for travel to and from, set-up and pack-down of the puppet stage, props, puppets and sound equipment.
Larrikin Puppets at Maven’s 4th Birthday Party | Yeerongpilly
Troggg and his fluffy friends are heading to Maven’s 4th Birthday Party today in Yeerongpilly!
Birthday Party puppet shows have been part of the Larrikin Puppets menu of options since the beginning.
Book a puppet show for your birthday party today! Here’s how: https://www.larrikinpuppets.com.au/party-entertainment-brisbane-kids-parties/
One of the earliest puppet shows Brett Hansen performed was for his brother Dale’s birthday party. He made a puppet stage out of an old fridge box, curtains out of streamers, and a collection of puppet characters – Duck, Hippopotamus, Pig and Little Bird performed for the crowd.
Many years later, the first puppet show performed under the Larrikin Puppets business was for the 4th birthday party of Jacob in Bardon. One of the parents at that show subsequently booked Larrikin Puppets for her children’s birthday party in Paddington. Almost every other birthday party puppet show since has been booked via the booking enquiry form here on the Larrikin Puppets website.
Here’s what a few folks around South Bank Parklands thought about puppets when Troggg interviewed them way back in 2013:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vtij7um4ChU&fbclid=IwAR3G0WZXUoykQnaGK01V23YAoxgeVj-eT9LT07mOcDj5cGF4NQkUy7HmT3U
You would be surprised how many kids named Charlie (boys and girls) have had birthday parties since this video of a Larrikin Puppets birthday show came out. Quite a few!
Whether it’s for a 1st, 2nd, 3rd or 4th birthday party (or even beyond that – we’ve done 40ths and 80ths!), puppet shows are great fun for birthdays.
