Category: Puppet Performances

Noosaville, Redcliffe and Cooroy can expect some crazy puppet fun this week when Larrikin Puppets set out to perform at three exciting events!
The first performance is a private event. Brett will be performing a fun childcare centre puppet show for all the children at Noosaville Childcare and Preschool Centre this Wednesday morning (8 May, 2019).

Then on Friday morning (10 May, 2019) it’s time for Redcliffe families to enjoy our puppets! We’re performing at public event – The Redcliffe Teddy Bear’s Picnic being held at Crockatt Park, Woody Point. We’ll be performing a special ocean themed puppet show at this event called “Marina’s Marine Adventure with Larrikin Puppets”. Our puppet show starts at 9:15am. It’s an outdoor festival aimed at under 5s.

Big day on Saturday (11 May, 2019) – We’re performing our puppet show THREE times at the Cooroy Fusion Festival 2019! This is another public event. We had a great time performing at this event last year. We will be situated at the terraced amphitheatre between the Cooroy Library and the Butter Factory Arts Centre. Our puppet shows are at 10am, 12pm and 2pm. Bring the family! It’s a big fun filled day of entertainment!

So that’s two shows up Noosa way, and a return to Redcliffe where we’ve performed several times before at events such as the Redcliffe Sails Festival, the R.O.P.E Camp AGM and many birthday parties.
Do come along to see us at the two public festival events – Redcliffe Teddy Bear’s Picnic and Cooroy Fusion Festival – and please take as many photos of the puppets as you like for Facebook and Instagram. We love to look back and see how much fun everyone had at our puppet shows. Sharing is caring!
 

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!
 

3rd Birthday Party puppet shows are quite popular bookings here at Larrikin Puppets, but they’re mostly held on Saturday or Sunday mornings or afternoons. This Monday Troggg and the gang are coming to perform for Ruby and her friends and family in the early evening!
Larrikin Puppets quite often perform night time puppet shows – Over the weekend we performed at the South Indian Festival in the hall at Acacia Ridge State School. We’ve performed in restaurants, bars and other evening festival events after dark. It’s not common for a 3rd birthday party to occur after dark, but it makes for another great option for people whose weekends are too booked up for a birthday party.
So if you’re looking for a puppet show for your 3rd birthday party or any kind of party or event, please feel free to book us for an after school or evening time slot during the week. We’re quite happy to visit your event whenever you like.

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 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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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://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.