by Johanna Richardson

Created on: November 14, 2009

1. Clown Face

You will need:

White stiff paper/card or a large paper plate

Coloured stiff paper/card

Felt tips or crayons or coloured pencils.

Decorations for the clowns hat and face.

To make:

Cut a large circle of white card for the face (if using the paper plate, cut the frilled edge off the plate)

For the hat cut a triangle piece of card in any colour, you like.

Colour in the face of the clown (the child can design their own special clown face)

Stick the hat on the top of the face and decorate the hat.

This ideal craft idea for several children.

2. Egg Clown face

You will need:

Hardboiled egg for each child

Felt tip pens or paints

Piece of coloured cad to make the hat

Wool or yarn for the hair

Cardboard tube to place the egg on, when completed.

To Make:

Colour in the face on the eggs.

Glue on the hair

Make a hat by rolling a piece of paper into a cone shape, decorate, and stick on top of the eggs.

Colour in a piece of cardboard tube, or decorate with a frill to act as the neck of the clown.

3. Clown Mask

What you need:

Large piece of craft paper in pink colour

Felt tip pens, crayons or paint

Piece of elastic

To make:

Cut out a face shape that is large enough for your child's face.

Cut out two eyeholes and a mouth slit.

Let your child decorate the clown's face to his or her own design.

Pierce the mask at either side and attach the elastic

Your child can now wear it.

3. Clown Hat, nose and frill

Roll up a piece of craft paper into a cone shape to fit your child's head. Stick it to together with Sellotape or staple it together. The child can then decorate it.

Piece each side of the hat with two holes attach elastic to it so it will go under the child's chin.

Make a clowns nose from the eggcup cut from an egg carton, paint it red (let it dry) and attach elastic to go around the child's head.

Make a clowns collar from a large paper plate, use the frill bit around the edge, carefully cut it off the plate, decorate and slip around the child's neck.

4. Animal cages

Use empty cereal boxes, paint the boxes and cut out some pictures of circus animals to stick on one side.

Then stick drinking straws on to the box to act as the bars of the cages.

Or

Using empty cereal boxes, the adult will cut out strips along the box side to make the bars of the cage. This can then be painted and plastic animals put inside the cages.

5. Ringmasters megaphone.

Strong coloured cardboard or cardboard tube.

Ping pong ball or scrunched up paper rolled into a ball and sellotaped together.

Your child can make a tube out of the cardboard, get an adult to Sellotape it together or staple it (or use a cardboard tube)

Decorate the tube

Stick on a ping-pong ball of the scrunched up ball of newspaper and paint it to match the tube.

6. Clown shoes.

You will need two shoeboxes with lids for each child.

Sellotape

Paint, felt tip pens or crayons

Stickers.

Very carefully cut a small hole into both shoebox lids.

The hole you make will need to be big enough for your child's foot to slide in but not to big that they will step out of the lid.

Next Sellotape the lid to the bottom of the box securely

Your child can now decorate the box with paint or felt tips and stickers

When dry, your child slides their foot into the shoe and walk around like a clown.

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