Larrikin Puppets are award-winning Australian children’s entertainers! We perform colourful and exciting puppet shows, songs and stories for stage and screen. We also deliver fun, educational and interactive puppetry workshops.
Our fast-paced, feel-good puppetry encourages audiences to talk, play, sing, and dance along. Our shows feature zany characters, catchy songs, and celebrate fun, kindness and diversity while nurturing child development.
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Zietta and the Little Larrikins: Now Booking for 2027 Theatre Season
Set in the bush by the beach, Zietta and the Little Larrikins is a vibrant live musical stage show featuring puppets that celebrates culture, connection, and creativity. Packed with humour, heart, and wide-eyed wonder, the show invites children to laugh, sing, and explore alongside Zietta and her playful puppet friends, both local and intergalactic.
A big thank you to everyone who attended the launch of Zietta and the Little Larrikins at the Redcliffe Entertainment Centre on 24 May, and to all the creative hearts and minds who helped make it happen. What an epic collaboration! We’re looking forward to touring this production in theatres across Queensland and nationally throughout 2027.
Zietta and the Little Larrikins was made possible through an RADF Creative Cities Grant. The Regional Arts Development Fund is a partnership between the Queensland Government and City of Moreton Bay to support local arts and culture in regional Queensland.
Thank you City of Moreton Bay and Arts Queensland/Queensland Government for supporting Elissa’s arts practice.
Yompers! New Kids TV Series Available for Commissioning or Private Investment
Yompers is a kids TV series that explores the social and community lives of children within a whimsical multi-species world. Created for kids aged 5-9, it follows the social lives of children who attend a whimsical, multi-species vacation care run by four wise, but hilarious and endangered animal Yompers who bring insight, peace, love and laughter.
Each Yomper carries a heavy load – a colourful backpack. Each of them has something special inside their backpacks that is revealed to support their care for the children.
The Yompers theme song is by Australian rock legends Regurgitator! Watch the Yompers Theme Song video now on YouTube!
The world:
Yompers is set in a whimsically restored war bunker by the ocean in a fantastical Australia, inspired by Bribie Island’s real, abandoned grey cement WW2 bunkers. The Yompers’ bunker, located where bush meets beach, has been reimagined as a vibrant, whimsical Vacation Care Centre – playful, colourful, and distinctly Australian.
Their calling is to impart wisdom to some of the youngest humans on earth in a super fun way, supporting them to understand important and exciting ideas in the areas of HASS (Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences).
It takes a Yomper to raise a community.
Larrikin Puppets at Melbourne International Comedy Festival!
In April this year, Larrikin Puppets made its Melbourne debut at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, presenting their interactive Kids Comedy Puppet Show at Kindred Studios in Yarraville.
Across 16 performances, the colourful, high-energy show saw 500+ children and families join a laugh-out-loud puppet party packed with comedy skits, original songs and audience interaction.
The show starred big blue monster Troggg, his adorable little sister Marina, and a cast of hilarious puppet friends in a fast-paced performance filled with playful mayhem, silly comedy and catchy tunes.
The Melbourne season also featured the launch of our new original song Power Power, culminating in a surprise grand finale featuring up to 100 puppets in a colourful celebration of “puppet power”!
A big thank you to all the families and friends who attended! We had a ball!
New Videos On Our Kids YouTube Channel! Watch Old MacDonald Had A Farm, The Wheels On The Bus and Baby Shark now!
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Larrikin Puppets presented a talk at TEDx Brisbane!
Elissa and Troggg presented a talk at the highly acclaimed TEDx Brisbane on 14 October 2023.
The theme for TEDx Brisbane 2023 was ‘The Power of Intention’. What is our intention when it comes to the art of puppetry?
A big thanks to Juanita, Rob and everyone at TEDxBrisbane for your support in rehearsing and producing our talk. It was an experience we’ll never forget! Watch the talk below:
Our Services
Our puppeteers – married couple Brett Hansen and Elissa Jenkins – have received advanced training in the USA under Jim Henson puppeteers from The Muppets and Sesame Street! We provide our zany and always crowd pleasing comedy-variety puppet show, themed puppet shows, story time puppet shows, a puppet MC service, puppetry for film and TV, a sock puppet making craft workshop, and hands on puppetry performance training workshops!
We are available to visit schools, libraries, festivals, childcare, vacation care, pubs, clubs, shopping centres and children’s events. We perform week to week across South-East Queensland and enjoy touring regionally, across Australia and internationally.
If you’d like to see Larrikin Puppets on TV you can support the Larrikin Puppets on Patreon.
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Larrikin Puppets Wins BEST KIDS LIVE SHOW At 2021 National Industry Awards
Larrikin Puppets won BEST KIDS LIVE SHOW at 2021’s national What’s On 4 Kids Awards!
We also won two additional awards for Best Local School Aged Activity (5-12 years) – People’s Choice Winner and Highly Commended.
HUGE thank you all our fans who voted in the people’s choice component and to the judges who selected us as WINNERS for Best Live Kids Show!
- Best Kids Live Show sponsored by What’s on 4 Kids.
- Best Local School Aged Activity (5-12 years) sponsored by Australian Children’s Activities Association.
