Category: Puppet Performances

Larrikin Puppets at Charlotte’s 3rd Birthday Party | Cornubia

Posted on by Brett Hansen

The puppets are off to Cornubia in Logan to perform a special puppet show at Charlotte’s 3rd birthday party.
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Troggg and friends have performed birthday party puppet shows ever since Larrikin Puppets started in 2012.
Larrikin Puppets was a finalist at the 2017 What’s On 4 Kids Awards in the Best Birthday Party Entertainment category.
Here are details on how you can arrange to have Larrikin Puppets perform at your birthday party:
https://test.larrikinpuppets.com.au/forkids-party-entertainment-brisbane/

Larrikin Puppets at Tewantin Community Kindergarten

Posted on by Brett Hansen

We’re performing our Christmas puppet show at Tewantin Community Kindergarten! Our puppets always love performing on the Sunshine Coast. This will be our second performance at Tewantin Community Kindergarten. We look forward to sharing some Christmas fun and laughter with all the kids, their parents and teachers. 🙂
We’re taking childcare centre/kindy bookings for 2019: https://test.larrikinpuppets.com.au/childcare-and-kindies/

Larrikin Puppets at Bundaberg Pageant Of Lights 2018

Posted on by Brett Hansen

Tonight’s the big night! Two mainstage puppet shows at the 2018 Bundaberg Pageant of Lights! We’re performing a short preview puppet show at 6:45pm just before the big street parade. Then we’re performing a full length Christmas puppet show at 7:45pm after the parade!

We always love visiting Bundaberg. This will be our second year of performances at the Pageant of Lights. It’s a great pleasure to be able to entertain this wonderful community.

Larrikin Puppets at St. Peter’s Catholic Primary School in Caboolture

Posted on by Brett Hansen

Today we’re at St. Peter’s Catholic Primary School in Caboolture to perform a Christmas puppet show for 96 Prep students!
We’ve started taking school bookings for 2019. Find us at test.larrikinpuppets.com.au

You can find all the details about our school puppet shows and puppetry performance workshops here:

Puppet Shows & Workshops For Schools


 
 

Larrikin Puppets at Redbank State School

Posted on by Brett Hansen

Today we’re at Redbank State School to perform a puppet show for Prep to Grade 2, and to run three puppetry performance workshops for Grades 3 to 6!
We’ve started taking school bookings for 2019.

We perform our puppet shows and run our puppetry workshops at primary schools all over Queensland. As well as Redbank State School, we’ve also visited Birkdale State School, Baralaba State School, Nagoorin State School, Citipointe Christian College, Maroochydore State School, Belmont State School and many more – including the Australian International School in Kowloon, Hong Kong!
Book us for your school today!

Larrikin Puppets perform a puppet show for schools that can be both educational and very entertaining for students and teachers alike!

Puppeteers Brett Hansen and Elissa Jenkins and their funny characters provide top quality entertainment and fun for schools in and around Brisbane, the Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast.
See below for full details on how you can treat the students to a special session of puppetry at school!

We offer two types of sessions for schools. The younger students in Prep and Grade 1 enjoy the puppet show, while the older students from Grade 2 onwards tend to prefer our hands-on (or hands-in) puppetry performance workshop. Here are details about both:

Option 1 – Puppet Show:  

Our puppet show is a colourful and fun 30 minute variety show of songs, skits, jokes and games. The style of puppetry is like The Muppets and Sesame Street. It’s all interactive and live (rather than pre-recorded). Kids are encouraged to sing, dance and play along.

The show is followed by an additional 5 minute presentation where we demonstrate to the audience how all the different puppets in our show work. Then there’s a bit of a meet-and-greet and photo opportunity where the kids can then get their photo taken with “Troggg” the friendly blue monster and his little sister “Marina”. These shows can be performed either in the school hall, in a classroom or in the library.

Our general comedy puppet show always goes down a treat, but you can ask us in your enquiry if you’d like any educational material incorporated into the show. We have performed puppet shows themed around healthy eating, food allergies, Autism acceptance, friendship, anti bullying, World Environment Day and World Puppetry Day.

Total Duration: 45 minutes.

Cost: All prices and details about our school incursions are here: https://test.larrikinpuppets.com.au/schools/


Cost Covers:

  • Two Puppeteers.
  • 30 minute puppet show of songs, games, jokes and comical interaction with the audience.
  • 5 minute “How the puppets work” demonstration.
  • 10 minute puppet meet-and-greet / Photo opportunity.
  • 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.

Option 2 – Puppetry Performance Workshop:
We also offer a 1 hour workshop where Elissa and Brett teach Muppet-style puppetry performance for beginners. We don’t teach the building/craft side. Just the performance side. We bring along 40 workshop puppets for students to practice with in the class. We teach lip sync, eye focus, walking, arm movement, character voices, etc. Puppetry is great for building confidence, improving communication and making people laugh. Students get an opportunity to come up on stage and demonstrate what they’ve learnt in the class.
The workshops usually begin with a short puppet show to demonstrate how the puppets look when performed.
Total Workshop Duration: 1 hour.
Workshop Cost: All costs and details about our school incursions are here: https://test.larrikinpuppets.com.au/schools/

Brett and Elissa have current blue cards, are fully insured, professional, and punctual.
Enquire for Schools Now!

Naturally For You Health & Wellness copyContent on healthy eating and food allergies has been sourced from consultations with expert naturopath and nutritionist Lauren Stark BHSc from Naturally For You Health & Wellness.

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See the article that 612 ABC Brisbane’s Spencer Howson wrote for Bmag about Brett Hansen and Larrikin Puppets here.