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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