Thread: Cirque Du Freak

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We are having an evil circus theme and called our party "Cirque du Freak." We are having guests dress up as Circus Freaks or other circus related performers. I am putting pictures of freaks up around the house, putting up red and white tablecloths on the wall as our "circus tent" and have some evil clowns around. I'm putting fake blood on the tent as well. I'm having some creepy carnival games as well as a tempt your fate wheel. I'm having difficulty deciding on how to decorate the bathroom (currently I"m making it a devil/demon bath with leftovers from last years heaven & Hell theme) and how to decorate the kitchen. Of course I have spent too much on decorations and really want to minimize any more costs but still keep it in the theme. I am having carnival related food, popcorn, caramel apples, corn dogs, nachos, etc. I did make one popcorn container with bloody eyeballs as a decoration which will be cool! Just drawing a blank on these two rooms.

Any ideas are welcome!!

You could make the kitchen into an oddities 'tent'. Hang some shredded plastic tablecloths in the doorway to the kitchen, that way it gives the actual feel of walking into a tent. Then just have all sorts of weird crap in jars all over the kitchen lol (EX: a two headed dog). Google circus oddities and see what comes up for ideas. In the bathroom, you could just have old circus posters hanging up. Google circus posters and you can just print them out then put em in cheap frames. Do you have clowns anywhere? And bunches of brightly colored balloons. That's what comes to mind when I think of a circus.

Great ideas! I like the idea of shredding the tablecloths and "oddities" will definitely fit in! I did order some circus posters and maybe the bathroom is a good place to hang them!

I am also doing a circus/carnival theme for my party this year. For the kitchen I am hanging freak show posters on the cabinets and having specimen jars on the counters - just very simple decorations for this room. Drinks will be in the kitchen, food will be set up in the formal dining room. In the guest bathroom I am creating a clown massacre scene with a bloody bathtub (H2Goo) with clown parts and a creepy message written on the mirror.

We did a Carnevil theme last year and our bathroom was a eerie hall of mirrors - we put mirrors on every wall with fake blood and some clowns hanging in there too with a light that was very dim but changed colors and played creepy carnival music from under the sink. We had the carnival food and a "fun-house" in our garage that you had to walk through to get in the house. We had a "prize" wall with a bunch of disturbing looking dolls and stuffed animals that we had roughed up quite a bit and hung them up in one space. The other thing we did that people liked was to have a candy buffet complete with carnival like items and colors but that had fake bugs in them, or faux blood - it was just creepy candy!