Overland with Kids

A huge big thank you to everyone who came to the shows during October and November and donated £1 to have their photo taken with Pesky afterwards. Please page down to see if you can find your photo/s.  If you can see your picture/s and would like us to email you a copy of your photo/s, please hover over [...]

With copyright permission of Lauren Child, we commissioned a company called www.costumesandmascots.com to make an adult sized ‘Pesky’ costume (mascot) and 4 of the main rod puppet characters (Pierre the Chinchilla, Oscar the Siamese Cat, Nibbles the Rabbit and Andrew the Scottie Dogs) especially for us, in time for the shows. See here for more information about the shows.
As the shows have [...]

Please find a printable tri-fold leaflet attached, for you to print out and keep, detailing information about the up and coming shows:
Amateur Puppet Show That Pesky Rat
For more information regarding our fundraising cause or for further details about the shows and to see a selection of puppet profiles, please click here. Alternatively, please have a look at our Fundraising [...]

Please support us!
“Sometimes when I am tucked up into my crisp packet, I look up at all the cosy windows and wonder what it would be like to live with creature comforts. To belong to somebody, to be an actual pet.”
Working together with the children’s author Lauren Child’s team, we are supporting www.ceem.co.uk, Crosshall Infant School [...]

Please click the following for recent local newspaper article about us hunts-post-article-sept-2009…….doing anything and everything we need to, to raise the profile of our fundraising cause and forthcoming puppet shows. See article, photo of us and scale of the puppet shows planned.  Why not come along and watch us make complete fools of ourselves (featuring Andrew [...]

We’ve been busy collecting and stealing cardboard and cereal packets as well as personally contributing by way of buying materials to help us make some homemade stick and lollipop puppet kits for the children of Burlacu, Moldova. We’ve managed to make about 200 kits in total and have sold some at our fetes. We’re hoping these [...]

Balloon Race Label Competition - Complete
A total of 23 balloon race labels were found and we have now reached the official close date. Winners will be notified with their prizes 6th July but you can see the list of balloon label finds and their on our page http://www.overlandwithkids.com/fund-raising-and-volunteering/may-day-balloon-race-competition/.  
Melbourn Fete
We attended the Melbourn Fete (Melbourn, Cambs) last [...]

You Can Help!
We’re after balls of wool for knitting, embroidery silks and embroidery fabrics, new tennis balls, plastic skipping ropes and large flat packed cardboard boxes by 7th July 2009. These are needed toward our fundraising cause toward Educational Aid for children in Burlacu, Moldva (please see ‘Fundraising Cause’) or newsletter moldova-news-6-june-09 for more information. If you can [...]

Melbourn Fete Saturday 27th June 1pm - 5pm with Music on the Moor 6pm - 10pm
Another fete and fund-raising again!
Location / Directions
Check out www.melbournfete.co.uk as this one sounds like fun! - the fete will run from 1-5pm with Music on the Moor from 6-10pm which will include live musicians, beer tent and barbeque - what more could you want! [...]

We have managed to persuade Jessica and AJ to start sorting through some of their books to sell on eBay.  We have prised only a few from their little fingers to begin with but at least it’s a start! And they are mainly duplicates of books (unwanted gifts) that we already have. Please check our [...]