PegStilts.com


Peg Stilts, Custom Puppets, & other Art


Handmade in Portland, Oregon by Kricket Caffery

Upcoming Events, Booking Inquiries, and Teaching Schedule:
Available for hire!

Camps, birthday parties, team building exercises, festivals, workshops, and other events!

Workshops, lessons, and classes of many types have been held by Kricket from PegStilts.com


Camas Library
DoJump!
Faerieworlds Festival
High Sierra Music Festival
Pacific Fire Gathering
Portland Waldorf School
Portland Children's Museum
Portland Juggling Festival
Mt. Scott Community Center
Fulton Park Community Center

2012 Gymnastics teaching schedule:

Kricket offers kids (ages 1.5 through 18) beginning level gymnastics classes at
Mt. Scott Community Center in SE Portland off of SE 72nd and Foster Road

Regular term classes are scheduled for Mondays starting at the very beginning of January and continuing on into 2012.

NOTE:  Regular term Sunday classes will be added and will begin in the spring of 2012.



NEW Kids Workshops at Mt. Scott Community Center with Kricket Caffery

Jan 15th- Partner Acrobatics (build pyramids and climb/balance on your friends)

Jan 29th- Performance Skills (theater/acting/movement games and activities)

Feb 12th- Handstands

Feb 26th-Juggling (6-8yr olds)   &   Cartwheels** (everyone else)
**I request with the cartwheels workshops (8-18 yr olds) that the students can already do a reasonable cartwheel and are looking to improve and learn more variations.

Schedule of classes for each of the dates above:
Ages 6-8 at 1:00-1:45
Ages 8-10 at 2:00-2:45
Ages 10-12 at 3:00-3:45
Ages 12-18 at 4:00-4:45

Please contact:  (503) 823-3183 to register ASAP.

Contact Mt. Scott Community Center to register for classes   (click here)

NOTE:  Some of the classes are parent/toddler classes!
Birthday Parties and other events!

Kricket from PegStilts.com provides the following activity options:
NOTE:  Most of the options below are oriented towards kids, but all are customizable to adults!
If you'd like to have more participants an additional teacher will be hired to assist.


A)  Stilt walking:

option 1:
Walk on tin can and trainer (hand held) stilts
         (this can be done mixed ages of kids 5 and up, some instruction, 30 minute to 1 hour workshop with maximum 8 kids)
    
option 2:
Walk on Peg Stilts (strap on leg type)
Participants learn how to walk, fall, and get up safely on peg stilts!
          (this can only be done with focused groups ages 8 to adult, minimum 1 hour workshop with maximum 8 people)

option 3:
Same as option 2 above, but birthday boy/girl get pair of stilts at the end of the workshop


B)  Circus fun time:
Walk on tin can stilts, juggle scarves and balls, spin/balance plates, play physical movement games, build a human pyramid, and have fun with a big parachute!
          (this can be done mixed ages of kids 3 and up, instruction can vary by group, 30 minute to 1 hour workshop with maximum 14 kids, themes are possible)


C)  Ambient performance with puppets (walk around), including parades:
Unique puppet creatures will interact with your guests, spark their imaginations, and inspire playfulness in all.
          (this can be done in groups of mixed ages, this is not a puppet show, 30 minute to 1 hour)


D)  Ambient performance on stilts (walk around), including parades:
Kricket will greet, interact, and play with your guests while costumed and tall on stilts. 

          (this can be done in groups of mixed ages, this is not a show, 30 minute to 1 hour)




Please use the Contact Page (click here) for booking, inquiries, and pricing.