Thread: Circus Party and Side Show Posters/Paintings

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For my circus themed party, i'm going to have each room be a different part of the circus.

The living room/dining room that you walk into from the front door is going to be the main circus tent made out of red and white streamers draped from the ceiling. I'll have different games set up in there.

My kitchen is going to be the "snack stand" with food and a gypsy with oddities.

The upstairs bathroom, and bedrooms are going to be different side shows. One room is going to be a closed exhibit with caution tape and growling sounds and a strobe going off under the closed door, which i found the idea for somewhere on here, but cannot find. The "world's largest spiders" is going to be completely covered in spiders, webbing, and my spider victim i made last year. The "death defying children" is going to have all the zombie babies i've made and spirit zombie baby props with a grim reaper. The "amazing escape artists" is going to have several body bags hanging from the ceiling.

My downstairs is going to be the backstage/dressing room area, which will include a dressing table with clown make up, props, costume items, and of course body parts and random odds and ends. I'll have some scary clown movies playing down there during the night.

These are some of the hand painted side show signs i've made for each room so far. I still need to paint up the actual circus sign.





I wanted these to look a lil' more amateurish. Like someone in the circus just pulled out some paint and wrote these up real quick.

Oriental Trading has alot of Circus themed ideas.

Love the signs you made. Good job!

For one of my previous birthday's, I hosted a party of my own making called Captain Spaulding's White Trash Carn-Evil Bash. I dressed up as Captain Spaulding from House of 1000 Corpses/The Devil's Rejects while I had all of the guests show up in their best white trash duds.

For games, I made them as simple and trashy as I could.

The Dastardly Dart Throw - First, I got a big piece of cardboard and used it for a background. Then I bought a bunch of balloons and inserted crappy little kids prizes into them (bugs, candy, even a $1 or $5 bill). I then ended up tacking each balloon to the cardboard background through their balloon knot and used it as a dart throw game (the darts you can get at a Dick's or Wal-Mart). I attached a pic.

Ring Toss - I also did a game of ring toss but with my own spin on it: I used discarded beer bottles (many that I just waited to accumulate early on in the party) and shower curtain rings (again, Wal-Mart, etc.) for throwing. I actually put a few bottles in the arrangement that were full and I colored their caps and if you hooked one you got a prize.

Fooseball - I also ran a little fooseball tournament, just because I happened to have one; it wasn't themed or anything, but was cheap entertainment, so it still kinda went.

The first two games really went over quite well, so feel free to use 'em!

Originally Posted by mommyto3

Love the signs you made. Good job!

Thank you! I appreciate it.

Originally Posted by YellowHare

For one of my previous birthday's, I hosted a party of my own making called Captain Spaulding's White Trash Carn-Evil Bash. I dressed up as Captain Spaulding from House of 1000 Corpses/The Devil's Rejects while I had all of the guests show up in their best white trash duds.

For games, I made them as simple and trashy as I could.

The Dastardly Dart Throw - First, I got a big piece of cardboard and used it for a background. Then I bought a bunch of balloons and inserted crappy little kids prizes into them (bugs, candy, even a $1 or $5 bill). I then ended up tacking each balloon to the cardboard background through their balloon knot and used it as a dart throw game (the darts you can get at a Dick's or Wal-Mart). I attached a pic.

Ring Toss - I also did a game of ring toss but with my own spin on it: I used discarded beer bottles (many that I just waited to accumulate early on in the party) and shower curtain rings (again, Wal-Mart, etc.) for throwing. I actually put a few bottles in the arrangement that were full and I colored their caps and if you hooked one you got a prize.

Fooseball - I also ran a little fooseball tournament, just because I happened to have one; it wasn't themed or anything, but was cheap entertainment, so it still kinda went.

The first two games really went over quite well, so feel free to use 'em!

I am doing a balloon dart game as well. But, it is going to be my own twist of the Tempt Your Fate game that has been passed around the forum. I'm using a foam board i got from the dollar tree and putting the balloons through holes punched through the board. In the balloons will be slips of paper with "good" fates and "bad" fates. With the good they get a prize. With the bad there are things they must do (embarrassing, silly) that are written on the slip of paper.

I'm doing a murder mystery game and costume contest. The ring toss idea is cool.