Larrikin Puppets provides curriculum aligned Puppet Shows and Workshops for Primary School Incursions all around South East QLD. Teachers can choose from a range of colourful, exciting, educational and inspiring puppet shows for their students to enjoy. Students can also learn the fundamental techniques that bring Muppet-style puppet characters to life. Larrikin Puppets won ‘Best Kids Live Show’ and 'Best Local School Aged Activity' (5-12 years) at the national 2021 What’s On 4 Kids Awards.
Our school incursions program includes performances and workshops that are in line with the Design and Technologies curriculum. As part of this curriculum students create a simple two dimensional design, then learn about working parts and how to turn their design into a three dimensional puppet character.
Many schools (both public and private) around South East Queensland and Central Queensland have booked Larrikin Puppets to either perform our puppet show – which includes a segment on how the puppets work, or run our puppetry performance workshop – which is a hands on workshop teaching the students the mechanisms of Muppet-style puppetry.
Quite a few schools booked these as part of their Design and Technologies curriculum.
In addition to our exciting puppet shows and intriguing puppetry performance workshops, we also recently launched a sock puppet craft and performance workshop. There are two versions of this workshop; one for ages 5-8, and a more advanced version for ages 9 and over.
We find that the puppet show performances are more enjoyed by students in Prep and Grades 1 and 2, while the workshops tend to be enjoyed by students of all ages. Our incursions are not restricted to the early primary Design and Technologies curriculum, with many schools booking our workshops for upper primary as well. We also run the same programs for Vacation Care.
Brett’s Blue Card number is 1161011/3, Elissa’s is 690261/3. We have Public Liability Insurance through Duck For Cover Entertainers Insurance.
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.
Please let us know if you have any questions. Happy to chat further. We would love to share our colourful and fun puppets with your students.
