Create a circus party (Ages 2 to 8)

• Have each child draw a clown face on a large sheet of paper using felt-tip pens, crayons or paint. See who can come up with the funniest face.
• If older children don't come with their faces already painted, have them use face paint to paint each other's faces to look like clowns.
• Instead of having the kids wear costumes to the party, provide a variety of funny, second-hand clothes at the party, and have them mix and match to create their own crazy clown look.

Food ideas
Make Animalwiches:
Cut out slices of bread, cheese and meat using animal cutters. Place all animal shapes on a platter and let the kids assemble their animal sandwiches.

Bake a Buried Clown Cake:

1. Bake a sponge cake; cool.
2. Cover the cake with chocolate icing.
3. Make the Clown Cones: Scoop balls of ice cream into cones; turn the cones upside down onto a baking tray; pipe icing faces on the ice cream balls, using the cone as the clown's hat. Keep in the freezer until cake time.
4. To assemble, place Clown Cones on top of the cake, ice cream-side-down, evenly spaced, one for each child, so the clowns look as though they are buried beneath the cake and only their heads are sticking up.

Party bags

• Make popcorn balls and give them to the children to take home.
• Let the kids keep the small toys they win at the game booths.

Copyright 1997 by Penny Warner. Reprinted from The Kids' Pick-a-Party Book with permission of Meadowbrook Press.

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