Larrikin Puppets

Larrikin Puppets performs colourful and exciting puppet shows and interactive puppetry workshops featuring zany characters and catchy songs, live and online. They have just released a fun, catchy debut music EP for kids aged 3-7, available to listen and download.

Highly entertaining and captivating, Larrikin Puppets’ fast-paced, feel-good puppetry celebrates fun, kindness and diversity while nurturing child development, encouraging audiences to talk, dance, sing and play along.

Award-winning Larrikin Puppets, established in 2012, is a thriving Australian puppetry arts company founded by Brett Hansen. His wife Elissa Jenkins joins him as co-puppeteer. They specialise in children’s entertainment and kids’ music.

Brett and Elissa, who have received training in the USA under Jim Henson puppeteers from The Muppets and Sesame Street, provide child and family audiences with wide-eyed wonder, joy and laughs from beginning to end.

Monster characters Troggg, Marina, Scrambles, Bangles, Frizzby, Flossy and their cast of puppet friends capture the imaginations of children and bring out every adult’s inner child.

Larrikin Puppets is passionate about bringing wide-eyed wonder to children and families everywhere and work each day to make the world a more whimsical place for them to enjoy.

Festivals, shopping centres, childcare centres, schools, libraries and parents can book Larrikin Puppets online and follow them on Facebook, Instagram and Tiktok.