Reader Contest: Earn Free Tickets to Very Hungry Caterpillar Show

3/7/16 - By Stephanie Ogozalek

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show, which opened in January this year, just extended its NYC run into April, and we're excited to be able to offer discounted tickets and the chance to win FREE tickets to our readers through a fun contest.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show, is one of our top events for preschoolers this season and among our top theater picks for the winter, so we're thrilled to be partnering with this great children's production, now running through Sunday, April 17.

Now let's get down to business. We're offering readers a chance to win FREE tickets to this adorable puppet play. We will give away ticket packages (some with a slew of extra-cool caterpillar swag) to the families who share the most creative representations of the Very Hungry Caterpillar with us on social media. We are challenging you to bring the Eric Carle text to life in new ways, just as this new show does. Creativity will be rewarded—so think outside the cocoon! As if that wasn't enough, we scored you a terrific money-saving offer on tickets, too.

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To enter, simply post a short (less than 30 seconds) video of your child and/or family engaging with the story on the Mommy Poppins Facebook page. Tag The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show and include the #VeryHungryContest hashtag.


This Very Hungry Caterpillar fan looks read to eat the page!

Details: We hope this contest gets your creative juices flowing. Videos can include kids making colorful drawings, putting on puppet shows, reading the story aloud, acting, singing or dancing inspired by a favorite scene or whatever you come up with! There's no need to follow the exact story, but make sure a part of the Eric Carle Hungry Caterpillar magic is brought to life in your submission.

One family will win the Grand Prize that includes four premium tickets to a performance of their choice, a tote bag with a Hungry Caterpillar coloring book and crayons, a caterpillar cookie, a merchandise voucher in the amount of $65 to use for additional swag at the show and a signed, limited edition Eric Carle lithograph! A First Runner-Up will win two premium tickets to a performance of their choice, plus all the swag mentioned above. One Second-Runner Up will get two tickets to a performance of their choice.

Plus: All Mommy Poppins readers can snag tickets for $29.50 by using the promotion code MPOPPINS during checkout.

The contest starts today, Monday, March 7 and runs through Thursday, March 24, 2016 at 11:59pm.

See official rules and detailsWe can't wait to see your videos!

Looking for more info on the show? Check out what our reviewer and her daughter thought of it in our February review or read an excerpt below:

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show, which opened January 30, retells four iconic Carle tales with 75 handcrafted large-scale puppets, four actors who double as puppeteers and narrators and subtle but lyrical music that readies the audience for the animal magic about to appear on stage. It’s earnest, colorful, artsy and will hold your kid in awe for 60 solid minutes.

This sweet production, which first opened in Australia, begins and ends by an actor holding up one of the popular board books it retells—The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse, Mister Seahorse, The Very Lonely Firefly and The Very Hungry Caterpillar (in that order)—​and that nod to the original storyteller and illustrator is followed by a show that hews word-for-word to the books.

With minimal narration, the production is a visual feast that relies on the bright colors and personalities of Carle's characters to take center stage. Colorful fluttering scarves, neon-hued puppets created in the illustrator's familiar collage-style that prance about and flashy stage lighting, combined with clever soundscapes like crickets and firecrackers, transport the audience to the inner pages of each children's story.

Top photo by Carol Rosegg/courtesy the production.

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