Peg Stilts

Specialties

Peg Stilts for Kids and Adults, Stilt Walking Lessons, Unique and Custom Puppets and Creatures, and other Art too! Everything is woman veteran handmade by Kricket Caffery in Portland, OR USA Visit: www​.PegStilts​.com

History

Established in 2008.

Walking on stilts started out as a hobby. I really enjoyed being up tall, costuming, and performing. I also wanted to share the experience with more people in my community.

In 2008, myself and some friends started an all-​women stilt walking group in Portland, OR. This was an opportunity for women and girls of any age to learn to stilt walk in a supportive and safe environment.

While establishing the group, I realized how hard it is to acquire affordable well made Peg Stilts in the USA, so I decided to offer a stilt making workshop to the women too.

The stilt making workshop gave the women (and girls) an opportunity to use power tools (some for the first time ever) in my workshop and to build their own stilts. Later, they would all learn to walk on on them.

Since 2008 Kricket Caffery has built each and every pair of stilts, they are all woman veteran handmade in Portland, OR USA.

Now PegStilts​.com has Peg Stilts in over half of the US States and some in Canada too!

Meet the Business Owner

Kricket C.

Business Owner

Kricket Caffery teaches trapeze, stilt walking, juggling, tumbling, and partner acrobatics classes and workshops to children and adults. Kricket has helped add circus and movement skills to the lives of students at Do Jump! Physical Theater, Fulton Park and Mt. Scott Community Centers, Portland Waldorf School (Milwaukie), Buckman Elementary, Portland Juggling Festival, Portland Children’s Museum, Camas library, and many, many festivals and private events. Kricket also performs with the Girl Circus at Oregon Country Fair, seasonally at festivals throughout the West Coast, and is a co-​producer and co-​creator of Circus Artemis — Portland’s All-​Women Circus.

When grounded, Kricket is also a contraptioneer, peg stilt manufacturer, puppet maker, fire safety goddess, peace and environmental activist, wooden toy builder, nature enthusiast, community builder, and an «I can do anything» kind of a person.

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