School Workshops

Listed here are all the workshops currently available.

Available workshops

There is a wide choice suitable for different ages and abilities from pre-school to grade 6, something to challenge secondary aged students and for interested adults too.

Puppet Adventures offers its most popular workshops in kit form which we prepare in advance. This has proved to be a popular option for schools - no need to order any special art materials or to provide any tools or equipment and perhaps the most important of all no precious teacher time spent on preparation. We bring everything that is needed.

FEES - Puppet Adventures is aware that in schools there are many financial demands on parents for excursion/incursion activities so we try to give the best deal we can.

Puppet Kits for workshops cost $10. Schools with fewer than 20 students $200 plus travel (includes kits). We charge a travel fee of $2 per 10kms - this may be subject to change with fluctuating petrol prices.

Helen also offers a 1 hour interactive and colourful demonstration of her own work as a puppet maker and brings a display of puppets large and small for the students to enjoy. She talks about different kinds of puppets and how they work, materials used etc. and encourages questions from the students. This enthuses the students and prepares them for their own puppet making session. If you book puppet making workshops this presentation is available for $50 extra.

With large groups of young students a few volunteer adult assistants (eg. parents, grandparents, carers) enables a workshop to run smoothly and everyone has a great time.

REQUIREMENTS - a room large enough to set up a puppet display and seat all the children for the demonstration, on the floor is OK. Workshops can be held in the same space or in classrooms.

CLASS SIZES - maximum 30 students for workshops, 200 for demonstration.

To book a workshop for your school, phone Puppet Adventures or use our email enquiry form.