Circus Party - Grand Finale

Step right up.

And join us...

as we, welcome you to the circus.

AKA Grace's 4th birthday extravaganza.

The Big Top awaits.

Please feel free to clown around.

Or enjoy some cotton candy.

While hopped up on sugar, visit the tattoo station.  Don't worry, they are temporary, like your sugar rush.

Games more your speed? Join in a game of Bozo buckets, pin the fez hat on the elephant, walk across the 'tight rope' OR

visit the duck pond.

 
What will you win?  A goldfish, of course.

Then, join us center stage, as we sing happy birthday to the birthday girl...

And wish her well.

Help yourself to a piece of cake or a carousel cupcake.

Work off those cupcakes by testing your strength with the 1000 pound barbell.

Perhaps you are stronger than Sammy The Strongman.

Then, Madame G will read your fortunes.  I wonder what she predicts next year's birthday party theme will be?

What Madame G did predict, the pinata will soon be replaced by the super cool punch box.

Before you go, don't forget to sign the guest book with your fingerprint.

It's now official, the circus has left town.  Please make sure you take your shoes when you leave, or don't :)

Elephant Guest Book

I promise, we are nearing the end of circus party posts.

For Grace's Arts and Crafts Party, last year, we put out a birthday wishes jar.  I liked the idea of our guests leaving sweet wishes for the birthday girl.  It was one of those extra touches that made me happy. 

This year, I wanted to do something a bit different.  Something that had a circus feel to it that could double as art.  In the end, I decided to do a fingerprint guest book page.

Since I already defiled my dictionary by tearing out a page for my reverse silhouette of Riley, I defiled it some more by taking out the elephant page as well. 

I taped that dictionary page to a piece of printer paper. 

I found a google image of an elephant I liked at Olli Bird.  I rotated the image in word slightly, so it looked like it was floating and then I printed it out.

*I did a few test runs on blank paper to determine image size and exact placement for the dictionary page.

It ran through my printer without any issues.  I guess if it had jammed, I could have defiled that poor dictionary one more time by taking out the circus page :).  Thank goodness it didn't come to that.

After my successful print, I tried to remove the tape BUT the dictionary page was so thin it would have ripped the edges.  In the end, I trimmed the sides of the paper cutting off the taped edges.

At the party I left the elephant 'guest book' out, along with some washable red ink, for guests to leave their fingerprints on.

I am hoping that the fingerprints look like balloons and not bloody fingerprints, like the paint your own pottery fiasco I had.