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Circus Crafts
For Kids
Circus crafts for kids are a great thing for circus lovers or
people throwing a circus themed party. Everyone loves the circus but
unfortunately it is only around during certain times of the year, until
now. Bring the circus to life at your house with our fun, easy, and age
specific circus crafts for kids.
Clown Costume
Shoes (ages 6+ with adult assistance)
For this craft you will need:
- Two shoe boxes
- Tape or a hot glue gun (to be handled by an
adult)
- Scissors
- A glue stick
- Colored Paper or wrapping paper
- Decorations (stickers, markers, etc.)
- Cover
both shoe boxes (tops and bottoms) with colored paper or with wrapping
paper that has a nice design. Attach the colored paper to the box with
a glue stick to eliminate the mess that comes along with using glue.
- Have
an adult cut a hole in the top of each lid. The hole should be big
enough for the child's foot inside the box through the lid.
- Attach the lid and the bottom of the box
together with tape or have an adult attach them together with a hot
glue gun.
- Decorate the shoe's however you want using
various materials.
Clown Mask (ages 8+)
For this craft you will need:
- A paper plate
- A hole puncher
- Elastic string
- Colored paper
- Glue
- Markers
- One red pom-pom
- Scissors
- Cardboard
- Take the paper plate and draw to round holes
where your eyes would be and a macaroni shaped hole where your mouth is.
- Using
scissors, carefully cut out the holes. To start cutting, carefully poke
the scissors into the edge of the hole and then start cutting
from
there.
- Place the paper plate so one third of it is on
the consruction. Trace the circle onto the colored paper.
- After
tracing the line, start at the beginning and make cemicircles on top of
the line until the end (the goal is to make the piece look like hair
when you glue it on).
- Cut out the piece and glue it on to the plate
above the eyes. If it covers the eys, cut it a little shorter.
- Cut out a triangle from construction paper and
once from cardboard. The two triangles should be exactely the same size.
- Clue the paper triangle onto the carboard
triangle.
- Glue the triangle on top of the hair to make a
hat.
- Use markers to color circles around the eye
holes.
- Color around the mouth hole, following the
shape of the hole.
- Glue the pom-pom to the middle of the plate to
make a nose.
- Punch a hole on each side of the plate.
- Cut a piece of elastic that is a little smaller
then how long it take to go around the child's head.
- Tie one end of the elastic to one of the holes
in the plate and tie the other end to the other hole.
- Put on your completed mask.
As
an alternative, glue many pom-poms onto the plate as oppossed to
glueing on the construction paper to make hair. Our circus crafts for
kids may be done by children younger then the age specified next to the
title, but they may require more assistance.
Sources
Kid
Crafts Magazine
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Crafts for Kids to Children's
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