Circus at home!
The best way to entertain at home, is with the circus!
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Nine CIRCUS Inspired Activities!
Welcome to our ideas page for enjoying circus at home or as part of a school project.
Adventure Circus is bringing our circus to your home or school! Follow our simple instructions below for each challenge, and record achievements on our progress chart! When 7 activities are complete, we will send you a certificate to download, print and display proudly.
Let’s get started! Click the links below for how to videos, and check out our ideas for tips and tricks to get you show ready at home!
Rewards for taking part
Send a photo of your progress chart photo to admin@adventurecircus.org and we will send you a digital certificate. Complete all 9 and we will send you a well done message from our team too!
ADVENTURE CIRCUS CERTIFICATE
Complete at least 6 of our activities
Take a picture of your progress chart
Send it to admin@adventurecircus.org
Congratulate yourself on a good job!
Level Achieved: Circus Apprentice
ADVENTURE CIRCUS CERTIFICATE AND MESSAGE
Complete all 9 of our activities
Take a picture of your progress chart
Take a picture of your costume or makeup
Send it to admin@adventurecircus.org
Level Achieved: Circus Performer
CIRCUS STORY TIME!
Write a circus story of 500-1000 words
Think about a beginning, middle and end
What acts could feature?
Could you illustrate the story too?
Level Achieved: Circus Superstar!
ACTIVITY ONE
Make at home!
Finger puppets (age 4yrs+)
Click on the links above to watch our ‘how to make’ videos.
ACTIVITY TWO
Time to practise!
Shadow puppets (age 4yrs+)
Click on the links above to watch how to master circus skills. You can also make up your own skills to wow your audience!
ACTIVITY THREE
Costume time!
Click the links to learn about circus characters and their costumes. You can also create your own unique character and make a costume by using clothing and items you have in the house!
ACTIVITY FOUR
Keep acrobat fit!
Check out your fellow students showing you how to stay fit at home! Please practise these skills with a responsible adult present. Don’t go beyond your skill level and be safe while you have fun.
ACTIVITY FIVE
Be inspired by the greats!
Cirque du Soleil #cirqueconnect
As circus artists we love to be in shows, but we also love to go and see shows as often as we can inside travelling big tops, or at large events such as the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
ACTIVITY SIX
Create your own circus!
Historically, circuses were named after their creator but you can choose what you like! Then, what adventures will your circus undertake? Write a story and let us know! You could even win a prize!
ACTIVITY SEVEN
Paint your face!
Paint your own face, or paint a grown-up’s face! You choose! The best face paints to use are water-based face paints such as Snazaroo or you can try with make-up that’s at home. Be as wild as you like!
ACTIVITY EIGHT
It’s showtime!
Where and what will you perform?
Choose your props and decoration
Music, lights and then action!
Download our show guide here and then gather your live audience, or stream your show via Zoom to friends and family!
ACTIVITY NINE
Time to rest!
Circus colouring in (4yrs +)
Circus puzzles
Circus knowledge
You have done so well, now it is time to relax. Find a quiet corner and enjoy our colouring in and puzzles!
Need some more fun?!
Craft - Clowns are able to register their face paint design by being a member of Clowns International! Each face paint design is then painted onto an egg and displayed at the Clowns’ Gallery-Museum in London! GRAB AN EGG, and get designing! READ MORE HERE
Challenge - Have you heard of Jordan Matter? He takes as many acrobatic pictures as he can in 10 minutes. Check out contortion specialist Sofie Dossie’s challenge and try it out! WATCH HERE
