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A Circus offers a vibrant, fun, brilliantly entertaining is graduation party theme. Recreate the colorful, energetic circus atmosphere with Ringmasters, clowns, trapeze artists, elephants, lion tamers and put on a show!

A Circus party is one of the graduation party ideas you can make an amazing job of. I have tried to give you lots of Circus ideas on invitations, food, decorations, costumes, games, music and favors which will be great for any venue. Planning a trip to a real circus as part of the celebrations can make it extra special.

With lots of fun, energy and enthusiasm your graduation party ideas can be a brilliant success.

Circus Graduation Party Theme - Decorations

For an exciting carnival it is fantastic to have lots of decorations. You'll know how far you can afford to go here.

You can aim for a real Circus feel.

Entrance

A circus should have a stunning entrance which sets the scene.

• A banner announcing the circus party is a great touch. Surrounded by lighting which could be Xmas tree lights.


• Bunting


• Ticket Booth (see this great Ticket Booth and tent)

Circus Ideas

• Ticket and Fortune Teller Booths, in brights colors with clown and ringmaster pictures on them. The fortune teller booth should have a crystal ball, table, chairs and a fortune teller.


• You may be able to make a carnival tent. The simplest way is to safely erect a pole in your backyard. Put a very large sheet over the top, stretch it out and fix it to your fence or trees. Hang bright colored streamers under the sheet for effect.


• Stalls for lemonade, Popcorn, Hot Dogs, Games and Face Painting. The stalls could just be a table with a cloth, or you could use upright PVC pipes taped to the table with a cloth on top. The stall can be clearly marked as Lemonade etc. The stalls can also have some fairground games like throwing tennis balls at cans and penny roll.


• For the ambitious you could make an animal cage. Cut an empty fridge box into shape. Paint the bars and put colorful paint on the rest. Inside put some toy animals.

Scene Setters

• Life Sized cut out of a Ringmaster or clown to use for phtographs.


• Pictures of Circus elephants, Ringmasters, Harlequins, Bearded Ladies, Clowns, Jugglers, Fortune Tellers, Lion Tamers and Strongmen


• Circus posters are great. If you can find some real ones, excellent. If not just print them off the internet and enlarge.


• Create large clown masks for decorations.


• Murals of circus images, circus posters, big tops, bearded ladies and other circus performers.


• Murals made up of drawings of circus performers and circus scenes, including a big top. Ask the guests to color it in and add messages for the graduate. The same can be done with pictures size drawings.


• Mirrors, use mirror paper and make it out of shape to give the hall of mirrors effect. Adding a few to a room can give a Hall Of Mirrors effect.


• Create a circus ring with sawdust and border and upside down pails for the performers to stand on


• Make a rope ladder and fake trapeze hung safely up away from guests.


• Make a fake barbell. A 6 foot piece of wooden dowel with balls glued to the end. Spray the balls with 1000 lbs marked on them


• Photo stand in so guests can have their photo taken as a circus character

Final Decorations

• Circus Streamers, perhaps in red and yellow


• Circus Banners, with circus images and graduation wording.


• Balloons, particularly shaped balloons of the circus animals. You can of course draw on the balloons with any circus iamges you want, and write the childrens names on them. The balloons could be red and yellow. You could also have a balloon entertainer make animal shapes live at the party which become part of the decorations.


• Use colored light bulbs for effect.


• If you can find red velvet curtains that would make a great entrance to the party just like a circus curtain.


• Bunting which you can make from card and thread, then hang from light fittings. The bunting can be in any shape you want. That can be a tent, triangle or even an elephant shape, for example. Just color in any way you like.


• Flags, just like at the circus.


• Sawdust, perhaps on top of a sheet to save later mess.


• Circus lights would be great. You may be able to use Xmas lights. Even better if you can have a spotlight.


• Create a circus ring, complete with sawdust.


• Decorate with lots of soft animal toys.


• Decorate with Circus nets, hoops, batons.


• Buy some inflatable balls to strategically place around the house. Paint cardboard boxes bright colors.


• Rent a cotton candy machine or popcorn machine.

Decorate your guests, this is a brilliant way of getting your guests in the graduation party mood!

• Clown face paints, clown hats, and clown noses


• Funtoos


• Lots of glow sticks and bracelets

A great idea is to have a box of guest decorations at the party entrance and hand them out liberally!

Table Decorations

A circus party table can be just as much fun as the rest of the party. Some great ideas are:

• Centrepiece of water squirting flowers


• Party poppers


• A joke card at each place setting


• Party hats


• Colorful table cover


• Circus themed napkins

For all decorations see the World's Largest Party Superstore.

Circus Graduation Party Theme - Invitations

Something like the printable invitation below would be great for a circus graduation party theme. Feel free to use it if you'd like. Just right-click over the image and save it to your desktop. You can then print as many as you need - 5" by 7" paper is ideal.

Circus Graduation Party Theme - Confetti

Enhance the Circus invites, and your decorations, and use personalised confetti.

The most amazing photo confetti maker can produce confetti using up to 10 circus themed photos and up to 3 accent colors. They have packs to suit your occassion.

Take photos of the graduate as a clown, ringmaster, juggler, trapeze artist or bearded lady, all in keeping with your circus graduation party theme.

You can put confetti on the tables, in the invitation envelopes and in the favor bags. One of the better graduation party ideas.

Circus Graduation Party Theme - Costumes

The Circus is full of brilliant costumes. Ringmasters, Clowns, Lion Tamers, Strongmen, Bearded Ladies, Trapeze Artists, Fire Eaters, Fortune Tellers and Jugglers.

If you wish to make your own you should be able to make very good costumes for a circus graduation party theme.

• Clowns, with great Face Paint Sticks, a clown nose, big shoes, wig and baggy clothes. Also hoop clown pants.


• Ringmaster, long red jacket, top hat, black trousers, white shirt and boots.


• Elephants, making a trunk (or buy one) and big ears


• A loin cloth for a strongman


• Buy a fake beard and you have a simple bearded lady. Use garish make up and clothes, and you are in character!


• Fortune teller, using a headscarf, gypsy skirt, lots of make up and big jewelry.


• Lion tamer, perhaps wearing Chinos, shirt and carrying a fake whip and hat.


• Trapeze artist, with tights, a glittering waist band and ballet type shoes.


• Snake Charmer, with those loose fitting silk pants, shirt and waist band.


• Tattoo covered people.


• Human Cannonball, dress in a work suit, goggles and crash helmet. Write Human Cannonball on the helmet and back of the work suit.


• Draw cardstock cut outs of famous circus performers and put them up around the venue. They could be a rind master, clown, lion tamer and strongman. They could also line your driveway.


• Use circus style confetti and set it out on the table and some areas of the party.


• Ask helpers to be dressed as clowns. They should circulate throughout the party and entertain some guests. They can squirt water from their fake flowers, carry out a simple magicians trick and hand out lots of glow sticks and graduation party theme favors.


• If you have a two person horse costume, find 2 volunteers.

Click here if you wish to see a great costume range, including clowns, fortune tellers, and lots more. They have just about everything you need for a circus party theme.

Circus Graduation Party Theme - Food and Drink

Think of the great, simple food you have at the circus. You can replicate the simple food.

• Hot Dogs and burgers


• French fries


• Sandwiches cut into the shapes of the circus. That could be tents or say animals


• Animal crackers


• Cotton Candy


• Bowls of nuts and bowls of fruit


• Boxes of raisins


• Popcorn


• Caramel Apples


• Fried Dough


• Sno-cones


• Sugar canes


• Candy


• Lemonade


• M&Ms



• Make sugar cookies using animal shaped cookie cutters like elephants, monkeys and tigers.

Bake a circus party theme Cake and then you can be creative decorating it in a circus theme. Try a clown, ringmaster, circus elephant, prancing horses, big top, the ring or a trapeze! Add in congratulations to the graduate.

Simple Decorating Idea for Your Circus Party Cake

1) Create a zigzag design round the edge of the cake using small pieces of red liquorice strings or red piped frosting. Colored candy coated sweets look nice placed between the zigzags.

2) Make circles for the eyes out of chocolate drops and add any colored sweet for the eyes with a chocolate drop on top for the pupil.

3) Add a cherry for the nose.

4) Create the outline of a mouth with red liquorice string or red piped frosting.

Click here for everything you need to make a great graduation cakes, cupcake or even graduation cap cake. Tips, photos, decorations and recipes.

Circus Graduation Party Theme - Games

A carnival offers the chance to have fantastic games. The circus party games page has all the games you need, including some unusual ideas.

Circus Graduation Party Theme - Favors

There are great circus graduation party theme favors:

• Tickets for a real circus


• Candy bars in circus themed wrappers


• Popcorn


• Clown masks, noses, hats and shoes


• Bubbles, yo-yos, kazoos


• Lots of streamers, balloons, whistles, circus posters


• Magic tricks


• Toy circus animals


• Silly straws


• Party hats and blow outs

Use popcorn bags as the favor bags.

Circus Graduation Party Theme - Music

Play some real Barnum and Bailey music. Recreate the circus atmosphere.

Also, all graduation party ideas do need to play exciting, upbeat party music to get the excitement going.

Circus Graduation Party Theme - Ideas

More ideas to make the circus graduation party theme just brilliant:

• To prepare well for the party check out the graduation party tips page.


• Make sure everyone has their photo taken through the life sized cut out. A clown or ringmaster photo is a great keepsake.


• Video the party.


• Use the Circus graduation party theme to raise money for animal charities.


• Most great graduation party theme ideas need some budget. Have lots of fundraising activities and raffles to get the budget you need. Also find out if you can have parts of the graduation party sponsored or obtain some donations which can be food and drinks.


• Have a Circus Ringmaster as an MC, that will add a lot of excitement to the circus graduation party theme. They will need Karaoke equipment. The Ringmaster can announce the arrivals at the circus graduation party theme, the prize winners, the start of games and when to eat.

Share Your Graduation Party Theme

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For circus graduation party theme decorations, party favors and ideas search the World's Largest Party Superstore.

Good luck with your circus graduation party theme. It is a great graduation party theme.

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