Capital E Puppet Expo

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Capital E has grown so much in recent years, now filling the school holidays with wonderful entertainment for parents and children alike. This Easter hols there is a wonderful ‘Puppet Expo‘ on. For only $5 per person there are famous puppets (Yoda!), shadow puppetry, a fabulous show (with plenty of belly laughs for all) and work stations to make an assortment of puppets. It was really inspiring to see so much good old fashioned fun – a simple sock can be so many things!

Prior to the puppet expo we went to watch ‘Seasons‘ a fabulous, 45-minute, production. The three actors sang us through the seasons in a bright, entertaining display of colour, nature and puppetry. We were all entranced. Bravo!

After Seasons we stopped for lunch at the cafe in Central library – bumping into Rachel and Myles! They joined us for the puppet expo and the children had a wonderful time with their self-made puppets dancing to the music….

On our way back to the car we stopped off on the waterfront for an ice-cream by the lagoon. It was low-tide and the rock-pools were brimming with life; crabs (some young boys bravely picked them up from under the rocks!), starfish, cats-eyes, shrimp, limpets, fish…. just beautiful. Charli said, ‘Wow! I really am having the best day!’.

Finally, we pulled in at our local library to pick up some DVD’s (hence my freedom to enjoy a cuppa and write a quick blog post!), before stocking up on more mandarins at the super-market – Charli would quite happily eat at least five in a row!

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4 thoughts on “Capital E Puppet Expo”

  1. I’ve seen posters for Capital E, now I know what it’s all about. I really must linger at the lagoon next time too. It’s always an education reading your blog to find out all the best things to do in Wellington. Thanks for that!

    Always welcome! Perhaps I should be on the look out for a job at Wellington tourist centre when the girls are older!

  2. Your girls never fail to make me smile. It’s so good to see how much they enjoy being creative and are such natural performers. I loved their Easter Cards and the excitement of the Treasure Hunt. When my boys were little we fed the hens ( who lived at the bottom of our London garden) with a little chocolate on Easter Saturday and then surpise! there were chocolate eggs in the nest box the following morning.

    Thanks Ruta for sharing that lovely story! Our neighbour has a Chinese language student staying and the first time he saw an Easter egg in the supermarket he rushed over to her and excitedly inquired, ‘BIG egg, shiny, which bird?!’. We invited him and his cousin along on Sunday and they loved it.

  3. What wonderful puppets you have made….it looks as though it was great fun and we loved your dancing too !! Now I will know what to do with granddad’s old socks…they will make excellent puppets!!! The pictures of the rock pools look amazing too…what wonderful sea life we can see….the little star fish you are holding so gently looks exciting. Enjoy the rest of your holiday.

    Make sure you wash Grandad’s socks before using them as puppets! Tee hee! Thanks for the gorgeous chick puppets to add to our wonderful collection – the girls got home from the show and put on a few shows for me – just magic!

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