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Circus Art
Contact_FullName: Dana Contact_Email: honorbright2002@yahoo.com Area: Circus-Misc Idea: I use a plain white sheet and let the children paint on it and use it a Big Top tent. we all play and do different circus tricks and entertain each other under the Big Top!! Contact_FullName: sandra Contact_Email: sandrawaggoner50@yahoo.com Area: circus art Idea: Use white paper and roll up like a cone hat, but small. Take colored cotton ball and unroll (it Does), and wrap around cone, use white glue as you wrap. Continue and wrap as big ball as you want. Wrap up and down cone to form fake cotton candy. It looks real enough to eat. Contact_FullName: Jamie Contact_Email: kidsinthecity@hotmail.com Area: Circus-Art Idea: Balloon Clown Face Have the children decorate a paper plate with bingo dippers of different colors, this will be the clowns collar. Next blow up a balloon and let them use various materials to make a face, construction paper, tissue paper, etc. Then punch a small hole in the center of the paper plate and pull the balloon through. Secure with tape, staple to bulletin board. You can add a piece of masking tape to the back of the balloon to get it to stick to the bulletin board so that you can see all of the clown faces, otherwise the balloons naturally face down! Contact_FullName: Sarah Contact_Email: Area: Arts and Crafts Idea: I had all the kids design their own big top circus. They chose where they wanted the ring, people, tent, and other buildings and animals to be. It was great! Contact_FullName: Lizy Contact_Email: lizyrivera@yahoo.com date:: 07/15/02 Area: Circus Art Idea: Give each child two small balls of Styrofoam to create a clown. supply them with different kinds of shapes and craft materials to decorate their clown....Let them be creative!. Have fun!
8-20-00We made a circus train to decorate our classroom wall. Each child made one train car, then the cars were joined to form a long train. Begin by getting clean, *unused* Styrofoam meat trays from your grocer. Most will donate these. Next, have each child cut a wild animal picture from a magazine and glue it onto the tray. Cut small slits along the top and bottom of the tray, and provide the children with pieces of yarn. These can be stretch from top to bottom on the tray and will stay in place when the ends are tucked into the slits. These are your cage "bars". Add construction paper wheels to each train car and combine with a paper engine and caboose for a great wall display! On our train, I also added several passenger cars with photos of the children in clown make-up pasted into the windows!
8-20-00For the a circus art project I thought to make popcorn. Instead of gluing the popcorn on the paper, I knew my very young class of 3 year olds would want to eat their share of the popcorn. So, I let them decorate brown paper lunch bags with the "Dot Art" paint (but you can use anything) and fill their bag with a handful of popcorn.
8-20-00We made big top tents out of red construction paper (less than 1/2 of an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet worked and cut to look like a tent), then I cut a slit up the middle and folded back the side to form the tent entrance. Then we glued them to a piece of sturdy white paper 8 1/2 x 11 and added stickers for the animals, drew clowns on the paper or a picture of the kids going to the circus and added a sun and sky. To finish it off we took a flag cut out of yellow construction paper, glued it at the top of the tent and wrote our names on the flag. They also took white crayons and made strips or decorations on the tent. WAY CUTE!!
Date: 2-29-00Have the children cut out a circle and add features of a clown face. You may put on a red nose, silly mouth etc. Get creative. For the hair, have the children dip their hands in orange paint. Place their hands on both sides of the clowns head for hair.
2-20-00We had a circus day, and painted the children's faces, they made cone shaped hats, by wrapping a large piece of decorated paper into a cone and fastening with staples or tape. Then we made clown noses out of egg carton cups, painted red, and held on with sewing elastic thread. we then made popcorn for snack. It was great fun!
ideaWe I used the circus as a theme in my toddler room, We painted with balloons. Blow up a balloon small enough for them to grasp. (You will still have to help them hold it.) Let them dip the balloon in paint and then have them blot it onto a piece of paper. Date Submitted: 9-19-99
Date: 6-1-99part one: materials: small Styrofoam shapes(from craft store), assorted pipe cleaners, paint, glue, flat toothpicks, glitter, feathers, string, shoe box let the children be creative and make any type of animal they would see at the circus( my kids made elephants) then take shoe boxes and decorate them. this will take 2-3 days. Part 2: turn the boxes on their sides. have the children put their animals into them and glue thin strips of black construction paper to make it look like a circus car. attach string to on side of the box so the kids can pull it around. let them dress up like clowns, put some music on and pull their circus cars in a parade around the room. this activity will take a couple of days to complete but my 4-5yr olds loved it!
Date: 6-1-99Let the children become clowns by decorating a clown's hat and taking a paper plate, cutting out the center and making a slit to the middle so that it can be easily placed around the child's neck. Use bingo markers to decorate it.
Date: 6-1-99Put all those empty paper towel rolls to good use. You cam purchase colored cotton balls fairly inexpensive at beauty supply stores or pharmacies. Have the children practice using their pincer grasp by pulling apart each cotton ball to make them big and fluffy. Next put glue on about the top 3/4 of the paper towel roll and stick on your cotton. It makes create cotton candy when you use light blue &/or pink cotton balls.
Date: 12-6-98Make circus banners, like the triangular ones you can buy at the circus. Children can decorate with stickers, sequins, glitter, etc. Make a circus balloon. I let the children just decorate with odds and ends stickers I have left over. Attach a piece of yarn to the end. 6-14-98 Name: Carol E-Mail: apple@wantree.com.au 1. Headbands - put out cardboard strips along with stars, sequins, feathers, glitter..............and let the kids go to town.....when finished adjust to their head size, fasten......and you have the prancing horses or the marching band. 2. Make puppets of circus animals. 3. Provide streamers etc and decorate the wagons, trolleys and bikes for the circus parade. 4. Lots of shapes........glue......paper.......make clown faces. 5. A body outline.....scraps of material, wool tops, paper etc and kids can make/dress clowns. 6. Patterning....balls and drums......kids decorate them with zigzag patterns.....add a seal and heigh presto! 6-9-98 Daylene Just Clowning Around Have each child lay down of a piece of butcher paper and trace around them with a marker. Draw a clown suit on them by adding three vertical circles on their chest, ruffles around their neck, ruffles around their arms and feet, and a clown hat on their head. Next, let the children decorate their "clown suits" with markers, crayons, pom-poms, rick-rack, etc. When each child's "clown" is finished, cut them out and hang them around the room. |
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