Invitations

• Circus Invitations - to add a festive touch, sprinkle a little confetti in each envelope.
• Circus Thank you cards

  Food - Drinks & Desserts

• Hotdog rollups
• Corndogs
• Individual juice bags/boxes
• Individual bags of chips
• Clown Cones from Keebler

• Circus Train from Good Housekeeping

• Cupcakes - individual cupcakes always work well for outside parties.  Set up a cupcake decorating booth and allow the children to decorate their own cupcakes.

  Decorations

• Attach a helium balloon to each child's chair - write their names on it with permanent marker.
• Decorate the backyard with the following booths.
• Printable 3D circus train from Hewlett Packard.

  Activities

• Balloon Pop - Using a cork board, fill the board with small blown up balloons and attach with a tack.  Give the child 3 darts, have a child stand about 6' from the balloons, and attempt to break a balloon .  They receive a ticket for each balloon popped. (Adult supervision)
• Egg Pond - Fill a large deep baking dish or a small child's pool with water.  Using  about 15 plastic Easter eggs, write the numbers 1, 2 or 3 inside each egg with permanent marker.  Close the eggs and float in the water.  When a child selects an egg, they get a number of tickets equal to the number inside the egg.
• Lollypop Tree - Use a large styrofoam cone or block, and about 25 lollypops.  Mark the end of the stick on about 15 of the lollypops.  If a child selects a lollypop with a marked end they receive a ticket (and the lollypop)  option:  use different color markings to signify 1, 2 or 3 tickets
• Carnival mask - use the outline to cut masks out of fun foam.  Have the children decorate with feathers, glitter, puff paint.  When finished attach elastic string.
• Jelly Bean Guess - who ever guesses a number closest to the actual number takes the jar home.  
• Face painting & Tattoo booth
• Basketball throw - if you already have a basketball hoop set up - use it for the party.
• Popcorn stand -  plastic cups so child can scoop popcorn out of the bowl themselves
• Ice cream cone dip - bowls of colored sprinkles, chocolate sprinkles, fruit loops - could also be used for decorating cupcakes.
• Ticket Redemption Center - This will be the highlight of the party if you are using tickets for winners at the different game booths.  Allow the children enough time to select prizes at the end of the party.  This will serve as their goody bag.

  Goodie Bags

• Individual boxes of animal crackers - jump ropes, tattoos, candy , silly straws, silly puddy, small decks of cards (old maid, go fish), jacks, paper air planes, small stuffed animals, change purses...  - any toys that you would normally find at a fair.