Kiddie Pool Digest: Kid Circus

by Parent Co. July 10, 2017

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The Kiddie Pool Digest will be back each week with a new fun theme and interesting activities, facts, and bits from around the web for curious kids of all ages.

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Now that Barnum & Bailey have hung up their hats and all the elephants have gone on to live happier lives doing…whatever elephants do when they're not balancing on balls and flinging batons, life under the big tent is going to have to come to you. Because everybody needs some popcorn and cotton candy and a ring toss or two in their lives, here's how to keep the magic of the circus alive and kicking.

Fun facts

Watch & Learn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEvQdhElSLo

Nighty Night Circus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzlKXyxgmBk

Baby Elephants by National Geographic

https://vimeo.com/35108343

The City Exposed: More than Clowns

https://vimeo.com/139444806

Welcome to the Circus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AvPwpbA1po

Amazing Kid Acrobats

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlZwYsJpqjo

African Lion – National Geographic Kids

Jokes for your kids

Clowns on Parade

TAKE A DEEP DIVE With this Activity

Supplies

• Clown costumes of your choosing. Can be anything really, but you might want to invest in a few red noses.
• All your kid's favorite stuffed animals
• Wagons for pulling
• Bags of treats: popcorn, Animal Crackers, Cracker Jacks, etc
• Your circus music soundtrack and a something to play it on (preferably with a loud speaker)

Let you kids go crazy dressing up as "clowns" which means whatever crazy costume they want to wear plus a red nose. Load up all their favorite stuffed animals in wagons (lions and tigers and bear, oh my). Prepare treats by either divvying them up into small gift bags (think party favor bags) or buy individualized boxes. Animal crackers are great for this one. Get your playlist going and head outside. March around the neighborhood in your clown parade passing out treats to passersby (Hint: it helps if you bring the neighbors in on this one so they can be ready to lend applause). Let the kids show off their crowd appeal and enjoy watching the least scary clowns in the world make everyone smile for a day.

Covet & Collect

Stacrobats

$49.00

Story Box Circus

$21.39

Beginner's Slackline

$29.97

Circus Tent

$21.98

Circus Puzzle

$14.95

Get your groove on

1. The Show Must Go On – Three Dog Night
2. Life is a Carnival – The Band
3. One Long Fairytale (from Coraline) – David Greenspan
4. Tears of a Clown – Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
5. Virgo Clowns – Van Morrison
6. Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! – The Beatles
7. Trapeze - Patty Griffin
8. Theatre is Fun (from Coraline) – Francis Jue, January LaVoy
9. Carousel – Michael Jackson
10. The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze
11. Circus on the Moon – Bruce Hornsby

Page Turners

The Man Who Walked Between the Towers

by National Geographic Learning

The Circus Ship

by Chris Van Dusen

Olivia Saves the Circus

by Ian Falconer

Extraordinary Jane

by Hannah E. Harrison

Leo

LOOK UP THE STARS

Let's let Leo, the Lion, lead the charge as the constellation this week. He was one of the earliest constellations to be recognized, with sightings going all the way back to the Mesopotamians and one of the easiest to find in the night sky.

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GET SOME STAR-GAZING ASSISTANCE

Star Walk for Kids: Learning Astronomy and Space

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