Celebrate Circus Day in May

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Celebrate Circus Day

What a great reason to celebrate on May 19th. Find ideas for crafts, games, and other activities.

Crafts to Make:

Decorate large pieces of paper, and then staple them into a cone shape to make a clown hat.
Make your very own Elephant Trunk and Elephant Ears Headband!
Make collages by cutting circus characters and animals out of magazines.
Make this Elephant Puppet.
Decorate paper plates to look like a clown face, complete with a red pom-pom nose. Make it into a mask if you want!
Make this Lion Face and pretend to be a lion tamer.
Check out these great circus related crafts.
Print out and make this clown face.
You can find even more circus crafts and activities here.

Other Things to do:

Plan to visit a circus if you can!
Make a list of all the different animals in a circus.
Get out stuffed circus-type animals, clownish clothes, and anything else circus related you can think of and pretend you are part of a circus. Have a parade!
Sing this Three Big Elephants Song.
Sing this Circus Song.
Discuss the dangers of some of the acts in a circus.
Put a line of masking tape on the floor and pretend to walk the tightrope.
Paint your face to look like a clown.
Watch Disney's Dumbo movie.
Have animal crackers for a snack.
Learn this fun Five Little Clowns Song.
Buy balloons and try your hand at making balloon animals.

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Sherri Osborn
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