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
Brett will be performing a puppet show for Stella’s 2nd Birthday Party on Saturday 16th of March in North Lakes.
If you’re looking for unique 2nd birthday party ideas, you can’t go past a fun and exciting kids party puppet show from Larrikin Puppets!
Brett Hansen and his troupe of friendly and funny puppet characters provide some of the best party entertainment Brisbane has to offer! Heaps of fun for children and parents in and around Brisbane, the Moreton Bay Region, the Sunshine Coast, Ipswich, Logan and Gold Coast. See below for full details on how your child’s 2nd birthday party can be made extra special and memorable with puppets!
2nd Birthday Party Puppet Shows:
With plenty of humour for the parents to enjoy too, the puppet show is 30 minutes of age appropriate songs, games, jokes, skits and comical interaction with the audience – performed in the puppetry style of Sesame Street and The Muppets.
This is followed by a 5 minute presentation after the show where Brett explains how all the puppets work. Then a 5-10 minute meet-and-greet with Troggg the blue monster – the star of the show. Kids (and parents too!) often like to get photos and selfies with him during this time. The puppet show, the “how the puppets work” demonstration, and the meet-and-greet and photo session all lasts up to 45 minutes in total.
Number of puppeteers: 1
Access to power: Ideal but not required. A small battery powered amp with one microphone input can be used for the 1 puppeteer show if it’s performed in a council park with no access to power.
Venues: This show can be performed in back yards, front yards, garages, lounge rooms, council parks, restaurants, halls, clubs, pubs and play centres.
Details on costs and where we travel here: https://test.larrikinpuppets.com.au/party-entertainment-brisbane-kids-parties/
Larrikin Puppets was a FINALIST in the ‘Best Party Entertainer’ category at the national What’s On 4 Kids Awards 2017.
Here’s a 3 minute video sample of a Larrikin Puppets birthday party puppet show!
On the day:
Puppeteer arrives about 1 hour before the puppet show’s starting time to set up the stage, sound equipment, props and puppets. The show (as described above) is performed for 30 minutes, followed by the 5 minute “how the puppets work” demonstration and the 5-10 minute meet-and-greet and photo opportunity with Troggg. The puppeteer then packs up.
Inclusions:
- 30 minute puppet show.
- 5 minute “How the puppets work” demonstration
- 5-10 minute puppet meet-and-greet / Photo opportunity with Troggg.
- Time allowance for travel to and from the event, set-up and pack-down of the puppet stage, props, puppets and sound equipment.
- Rehearsal time prior to the event
Brett has a current blue card, and is fully insured, professional, and punctual.
See Spencer Howson’s Bmag article about Brett Hansen and Larrikin Puppets here.
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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://test.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.
