A big day for Larrikin Puppets this Wednesday the 1st of May, 2019. We are spending all day at Talara Primary College in Currimundi on the Sunshine Coast to run FOUR puppetry performance workshops for the students!

Our puppetry performance workshop is a hands on workshop teaching students the mechanisms of Muppet-style puppetry. This workshop perfectly aligns with the national state school Design and Technologies curriculum. We provide 40 of our professional workshop puppets for students to use in the session. We teach lip sync, eye focus, arm rod manipulation, walking, voices, emotions, singing and dancing. The workshop is 1 hour in total, including a short puppet show at the beginning to show how the puppets look when performed.

Currimundi is a suburb in the Sunshine Coast Region of Queensland, Australia. It is located within the Caloundra urban centre, 5 kilometres north of the suburb of Caloundra.
We have completed three months of professional development in the USA, which included performances and advanced, formal training with Jim Henson puppeteers from The Muppets and Sesame Street.
 

The Lockyer Valley Heritage Festival is happening THIS WEEKEND! We’d love to see everyone at Laidley Pioneer Village (Pioneer St, Laidley) and Das Neumann Haus (Cnr William and Patrick St, Laidley) this Saturday May 4 and Sunday May 5!
Please click “Going” on the official Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/429924864449573/
Our puppet shows will take place on both days of the Lockyer Valley Heritage Festival in both venues. There will be two puppet shows on Saturday May 4 at the Laidley Pioneer Village – 10am and 12pm. And then there will be two puppet shows on Sunday May 5 at Das Neumann Haus – 10am and 12pm. Be sure to bring the whole family along! It’s set to be a massive weekend of fun and history!
 

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:

Children’s Entertainment for Childcare and Kindies

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!

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:

• 30 minute puppet show of songs, games, jokes and comical interaction with the audience.
•  5 minute “How the puppets work” demonstration.
•  5-10 minute puppet meet-and-greet / Photo opportunity with Troggg the blue monster.
•  Time allowance for travel to and from, set-up and pack-up of the puppet stage, props, puppets and sound equipment.
•  Rehearsal time prior to the event.
•  Quality characters.
•  Quality puppetry.

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.