Overview
Overview
Six clay muffins live in a tea-towel tent in a pastel kitchen. They play, they make a mess, and they giggle.
Muffin Mumma is a stop-motion series for children aged two to five, produced by A+C Studios at Postgate Stage in Margate. The studio takes its name from Oliver Postgate, co-creator of Bagpuss, the children’s stop-motion show made in East Kent and still loved half a century later.
The Muffins never speak. They squeak and giggle, and children follow the story through faces and movement. A child can watch in whatever language is spoken at home.
It is funny first. Sprinkles hurdles the toaster. An egg cracks and Appy’s face falls. A cherry makes a break for it across the counter. The comedy is physical and quick, the kind that makes a two-year-old laugh out loud and the grown-up beside them laugh too. Much of what small children watch is built to hold them to a screen. Muffin Mumma is made for the child on the other side of it.
The learning sits inside the fun. With no words to lean on, children read a frown, a wobble or a grin and work out what each Muffin feels. Whisks, spoons, eggs and jelly become toys, puzzles and obstacle courses, and the ordinary objects in a child’s own kitchen take on a life of their own. The stories turn on teamwork, kindness and imagination, and they send children off to mix, pour and pipe with a grown-up of their own.
Each character is sculpted in clay and moved a fraction at a time, frame after frame, by animators on real sets. No AI touches it.
Sprinkles cannot sit still. Cherry wears a cherry on her head and loves ball games and fruit, in that order. Uni is a rainbow swirl with a unicorn horn, and she hates to be hurried. Rocky is chocolate outside and marshmallow within; he leads the gang and solves its mysteries. Canda is shy and clever and would rather be watching birds. Appy has a birthday candle on her head and a tune always going. Three more characters are on their way.
Dan Richards, founder of A+C Studios, was baking cupcakes with his daughter when the toppings began to turn into faces. The faces soon had names. Muffin Mumma is the show he wanted his own children to watch.
We want to make six episodes by Easter 2027. No broadcaster or streamer stands behind them. The Kickstarter campaign runs from 7 October to 4 November 2026 and aims to raise £6,000.
Back Muffin Mumma on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/margatemuffins/muffin-mumma-animation-series
Muffin Mumma is independently owned and made to travel. Broadcasters, distributors and partners who want to talk about the series can get in touch.
Details
Director Dan Richards
Style Claymation, Long Form / IP
