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BALLOON INVITATIONS - Blow up balloon and write party details on it. Deflate balloon and mail to guests with a note of instruction to "For party instructions, blow up balloon.

TICKET INVITATIONS - Cut red or yellow card stock into a rectangle-shape that will fit into the envelope you use. Write the following on each ticket:

ADMIT ONE
To The Greatest Show On Earth
(Name's) Circus Birthday Party
Show Time & Date:
Location: Big Top at (Address)
R.S.V.P. To Ringmaster: (Name & Phone #)
Costume Required.

POPCORN INVITATIONS - Across the top of the bag write:

(Name's) Circus Birthday Party
Costume Required.

Then add below:

Come One, Come All,
For A Poppin' Good Time.
It's My (#) Birthday,
So You Must Come & Play.

Show Time & Date:
Location: Big Top at (Address)
R.S.V.P. To Ringmaster: (Name & Phone #)

ANIMAL CRACKERS INVITATIONS - Cut 8 1/2" x 11" colorful card stock into 4 pieces with decorative scissors. Write the following party details on one side:

Under The Big Top You Will Find,
Lions, Tigers, And Bears, Oh! My.
What A Birthday Party It's Gonna Be,
Come On Over And Celebrate with Me!

On the other side write the following:

(Name's) Circus Birthday Party
Show Time & Date:
Big Top At: (Address)
R.S.V.P. To Ringmaster: (Name & Phone #)
Costume Required.

Decorate with circus-related stickers and laminate invitation. Hole-punch upper left corner and thread ribbon through and tie to animal cracker box handle. Hand-deliver invitations.

BIG TOP CIRCUS TENT INVITES - Cut your invites in the shape of the big top tent. When the flaps open up, then the party details will be revealed.

EMBELLISH READY-MADE CIRCUS BIRTHDAY PARTY INVITATIONS - Buy ready-made circus invitations and embellish picture with glitter, sequins, etc.


CIRCUS COSTUMES

Ask guests to wear clown or circus animal costumes. Or ask guests to wear baggy clown clothes and transform them into clowns with face paint, big clown noses, funny hats, and oversized ties as they arrive. Be sure to have Mom, Dad, and any helpers dress accordingly.

As guests arrive, you could also give them each a circus animal mask or fun clown nose to help them get into the circus party mood. Also, you might consider setting up a face-painting station and have a few teenagers create lions, tigers, and bear faces, along with clown faces.

For some more clown costume ideas, check out our CLOWN COSTUME IDEAS photos and how-to tips. They are nothing less than fun and fabulous!


CIRCUS BIRTHDAY PARTY DECORATIONS

Create a circus atmosphere using primary colors with some of the following ideas:

• Line walkway with clusters of balloons on tall stakes stuck in ground.

• Line walkway with multi-colored, string pennant flags (used at store grand openings) or make your own using felt.

• Hang a sign on the front door that says, "Welcome To (Name's Birthday Big Top."

• Put a carnival ticket booth at your driveway entrance with someone dressed as a clown handing out admittance tickets.

• Create a ticket booth from a refrigerator box and decorate it.

• Create your own Big Top with a gigantic circus canopy tent.

• Put balloons outside to alert guests of party location. Attach to mailbox, hang from tree, or tie to car antenna.

• Create a tent atmosphere with brightly colored sheets or a parachute.

• Transform your party room walls into a circus atmostphere using some fun circus wall decals. When the party is over, transfer them to your child's bedroom walls.

• Hang a fun circus themed birthday banner on one of your party room walls.

• Create the Big Top in the party room by enclosing the ceiling with streamers. Hang them generously from center of ceiling to all edges of the room.

• Add clusters of colorful balloons and curling ribbons around your party room.

• Decorate room with stuffed animals. Attach balloons or put party hats on animals.

• Create a true circus atmosphere by labeling each party area of your circus party with fun circus signs. They could say things like "GAMES", "ADMISSIONS", "CONCESSION STAND", etc.

• Create circus-type posters to hang on walls by downloading and enlarging clowns and circus animals.

• Create a photo-op with a fun circus party photo banner which has holes cut out for the little ones to put their face. The kids can pose as the face of a funny clown, a circus master, or in the jaws of a lion.

• Create signs that say "Greatest Show On Earth" and "Ladies and Gentlemen, Children of All Ages..."

• Create a ticket booth from a refrigerator box and decorate it.

• Cover tables with primary colored tablecloth and tie corners with curling ribbon.

• Serve your popcorn in red and white popcorn boxes.

• Decorate archways or doorways with various colored streamers.

• Use circus plates, cups, napkins, tablecloth, centerpiece, circus party cone hats, and wall cutouts.

• Create a circus centerpiece in a plastic popcorn container. To weight container and provide substance to hold contents in place, fill with dry beans or split peas. Add balloons and large suckers on sticks. Tie multiple strands of curling ribbons to sticks and insert in container. Add party horns and blowers. Camouflage top of container with circus tissue crumpled.

• Create carnival booths for some party activities. Cover a card table with a colorful tablecloth. Create booth frame with either scrap wood or PVC pipe taped together. Paint and decorate frame with streamers and balloons. Hang signs identifying booths' activities, e.g., Hot Dogs, Face Painting, Balloon Animals, Bean Bag Toss, etc.

PRINTABLE GAMES - Here's a great site for some fun print and play toddler party games that would be a perfect party game add-on!

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If you're interested in purchasing some circus themed games, below you will find several options to consider. If you're interested in putting together all your own games, here's an entire page with nothing but Circus Games and Activities that you can check out. A list of the options are also listed below.

• Pin The Nose On Mr. Clown
• Clown Relay
• What Circus Animal Am I?
• Walk The Tight Rope
• Feed The Wild Animals
• Decorate Clown Hats
• Clown Ball Toss
• Win A Fish
• "Egg" Toss
• Ring Toss
• Balloon Animals
• Tin Can alley
• Water Gun Shooting Gallery
• Ticket Redemption
• Inflatable Bounce House Or Moonwalk
• Clown
• Pinata

• Hotdogs wrapped in foil or in red & white plastic hotdog holders.
• Nachos
• Pizza
• Corn dogs
• Corn on the cob
  

• Popcorn in red & white bags (Consider renting a machine)
• Candied or caramel apples
• Peanuts - Put into individual bag with "Peanuts" label.
• Animal crackers
• Cracker Jacks
• Soft pretzels
• Giant lollipop
• Cotton candy (Consider renting a machine)
• Snow cones (Consider renting a machine)
• Lemonade

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CIRCUS SHEET CAKE - Bake white sheet cake and frost white. Decorate with plastic circus toppers, train, and animals.

CIRCUS CUPCAKES - Make white cupcakes and frost white. Put an animal cracker in the middle and cage it in with black icing.

CLOWN CUPCAKES - Make or buy cupcakes and frost them in various circus colors. Top them each with clown pics or an edible clown sugar decoration.

CAROUSEL CAKE - Decorate animal crackers with tinted icing and let dry. Bake 2 round layer cakes, stack, and frost with white frosting. To create carousel, place peppermint sticks in a circle on top of cake. Place animal crackers next to sticks. Place Jelly Bellys or jelly beans around bottom edge of cake. Decorate sides with frosting piped out in red, green, and yellow stripes. Make canopy by tracing a dinner plate onto heavy paper. Cut out circle and make a cut from 1 edge to center. Overlap edges and glue to make cone-shape. Set on top of sticks.

CLOWN CAKE - Bake 2 round cakes. Cut the sides off 1 cake to make it into the shape of a clown hat and lay it next to the round cake, which is the clown head. Frost round cake with white or cream colored frosting. Tint remaining frosting blue and frost hat. Decorate center of hat with large nonpareils and put M&M's around hat edges.

Create eyes using round chocolate wafer cookies. Put dab of frosting in center of each wafter and a skittle on top of frosting to create eyeball. Place red skittles in a curve to create mouth. Put red plastic ball on cake for nose. Place red string licorice around sides for hair. Use colored marshmallows around bottom of cake to create clown's collar.

CLOWN HAT CAKE - Make or buy a sheet cake and cut out a fun clown hat shape and decorate it up in clown style.br>

CIRCUS BIRTHDAY PARTY FAVOR IDEAS

You can either handout a circus party favor bag or a circus party favor box filled with fun circus favors, or set-up a prize booth and let the kids cash in their winning tickets for prizes. Circus birthday party favors might include circus tattoos, circus pencils, circus stickers, finger puppets, whistles, stuffed animals, circus activity books with markers or crayons, animal crackers, goldfish crackers, or teddy grahams.

MORE CIRCUS BIRTHDAY PARTY IDEAS

Just in case you're still on the hunt for some more Circus Birthday Party Ideas, here's several ideas to check out. There are lots of options and ideas for creating invitations, decorations, party food, favors, and games.


CIRCUS BIRTHDAY PARTY IDEAS FOR PARTY SUPPLIES

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