A clown-themed birthday party is a great way to celebrate the special day of a fun-loving child. Whether you choose circus clowns or carnival clowns, clowns are just plain fun. Ideas for clown invitations, decorations and other party elements are all based on fun and silliness.
Clown Birthday Invitations
You can make homemade clown party invitations. If you're talented, you can use construction paper cutouts to craft your own custom clown face with fuzzy hair, clown makeup and a big red nose. Otherwise, you can use your desktop publishing software to design a circus flier or print out clown faces onto blank stationery.
Clown Birthday Party Activities
Face painting is a fantastic activity for a clown birthday party. You can invite a professional clown to help the kids learn paint their own faces, or you can enlist the help of friends. You could also ask the kids to arrive in clown costume, if you think their parents would like to help them dress up. Learning juggle using tennis balls or plastic bowling pins is another clown party activity. Finally, if you have access to two children's play cars, you can designate teams and have a "stuff the clown car" contest.
Clown Birthday Party Foods
A double-layer round birthday cake can be trimmed and decorated to look like a circus tent, or you can use frosting to create a clown's wig, nose and makeup. Some cake decorating shops have paint you can use to paint makeup on the frosting to simulate a clown's signature red grin and well-defined eyebrows. Cotton candy, popcorn, elephant ears, fresh roasted peanuts, funnel cakes and other circus foods are perfect for your theme, too.
Clown Birthday Party Decorations
To decorate for a clown party, use red and white streamers hanging from the walls to simulate a circus big top. A giant "welcome to the circus" or "welcome to the carnival" sign to greet your guests will let the guests know they're in the clowning zone. And of course, bouquets of helium balloons are almost required, and each child will be delighted to take one home.
Clown Birthday Party Favors
Send each guest home with a balloon, his own red foam nose, a squirting ring or a giant squirting flower.
