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Circus Art
Circus Songs
Circus Games




Circus Art

Cotton candy
Starting at the top of a empty paper towel roll, glue on pink or blue cotton balls.
cover about 3/4 of the roll.

Be a clown
OK for the hat you can make a funnel out of paper and glue it together. Now have your little one decorate it either by gluing on various materials, painting it, coloring it with markers/crayons or all of the above. Next you can cut the center out of a paper plate and a slit from the outside to the middle. Decorate and then place around the neck. Last add a nose, using an egg carton cup. Cut one out and paint it red, then attach yarn to two sides so you can wrap it around and tie it at the back of the head.

Make a clown face
Cutout various basic shapes (triangle, square, circle) of construction paper. Give your little one a large circle for the head. Now they can make a face using the shapes.

Circus popcorn
Using paper lunch bags, let your little one decorate their own popcorn bag. Bingo dobbers work great with this. When bag is finished, fill it with popcorn!

Lion Head
Use a paper plate as the lions head. Glue yellow cotton balls or colored yarn all around the paper plate for the lion's mane. Let the child draw and color the face of the lion. Cutout ears from construction paper and glue them to the top of the paper plate. You can even cutout eye holes so it's a mask.

Clown Puppets
Find a picture of a clown in a coloring book and let your child color it. When finished cut it out and glue onto construction paper. Cut that out and glue it on to a straw. Using the straw as the handle, let the child act out a play for you!


Circus Songs

Circus elephant

**Improvise a tune for this rhyme
Elephants walking along the trails
Are holding hands by holding tails.

Trunks and tails are handy things,
When elephants walk in circus rings.

Elephants work and elephants play.
And elephants walk and feel so gay.

And when they walk it never fails
They're holding hands by holding tails.

Take me out to the circus
**Tune of "Take me out to the ball game"

Take me to the Big Top.
I want to see the clowns tumbling,
As I eat popcorn and drink soda pop.
Oh, the lions and tigers may scare me,
The high wire acts will amaze.
So it's me , you.....oh, the things we will do
On our circus days !!!!!!!

Let's all go to the circus today
**Tune of "Mary had a little lamb"

Let's all go to the circus today
The circus today, the circus today.
Let's all go to the circus today,
And watch the big parade.
Lions and tigers jump through hoops,
Jump through hoops, jump through hoops.
Lions and Tigers jump through hoops,
In their circus cage.
The prancing horses step so high,
Step so high, step so high.
The prancing horses step so high,
In the circus ring.
See the clowns all tumbling,
Tumbling, tumbling.
See the clowns all tumbling,
In the circus ring.

We Are All Clowns Today
**Tune of "Farmer in the Dell"

We are all clowns today,
We are all clowns today,
Hi ho the Derry O
We are all clowns today.


Circus Games


Mix and Match
Cut out two of various circus shapes (clowns, lions, elephants, etc.) Put them all in a bowl or a clowns hat and let the children match them and then sort them any way they see fit (animals/ non animals, by colors, etc.)

Bean Bag Toss
Draw a large clown face on a piece of poster board. Cut a hole out where the clown's mouth would be (make it at least twice the size of the beanbag). Tape the board to a chair and let each your child take three tries to throw the beanbag into the clown's mouth.

Balloon Game
Take a dozen sized egg carton and glue a small circle for each color. Have your child toss into the egg carton a pom-pom, coin, etc. into it. Have the child say the color in English and/or Spanish that it lands in.