Well, I'm finally getting around to posting about my son's party that happened recently. After weeks of planning & designing, my son's Circus Birthday Party for his 5th Birthday was a a success! He was thrilled & so was I. We had a lot of fun & so did our guests. We had a concession stand with individual popcorn & cotton candy as well as a clown, balloon animals, games with prizes & we had lunch & Birthday cake of course too. The games wer "Pin the Nose on the Clown" which I did another post about earlier and a "Knock down the Pins game". We also had a basketball hoop game & a large Circus cut-out that you put your heads in to take pictures like you're one of the circus performers. My niece made balloon art as in; dogs, flowers, giraffes, swords, hats, swans. The kids loved that & my sister was "Bubbles the Clown" & she looked great! She diidn't really have a specific duty but, it really helped add to the circus effect to have a clown there. I used a tent canopy (like the kind you put up at a sporting event or over at festival booths) as a Circus tent & used it for the kids to eat under. I used plastic red & white table cloths (from the dollar store) that I cup up to make the tent "curtains". The tent turned out cute & it really made the circus look complete. I used a dog crate with stuffed lions & tigers in it to make it look like the animals were waiting in their trailer cages before performing. We served corndogs & chips for lunch with fruit as well. I made a large 12 in. round cake with circus stripes on it & put some circus figures that my son had on it. Baking is defintely one of my passions & I love making cakes. In the past, I've made much more elaborate cakes for Cameron's Birthdays but, I had so much other stuff to do that I had to do something more simple this year. I had circus themed goody bags for the all of the kids to take home &they had stickers, foam clown noses & Barnum's Animal Crackers in them as well as a couple of other trinkets. Cameron helped me fill them up. We even had circus music which was basically the same circus theme looping over & over but, no one seemed to mind & it realy made it seem like a real circus. Several of Cameron's friends & classmates came as well as his Grandpa (my dad) & my circus helpers (my sis, niece & 2 nephews). At the end of the day, we were all tired but, I had one really happy 5 year old to tuck in bed that night!
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