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Home > Arts and Crafts Projects for Kids > Clown Ideas & Crafts for Kids
Clowns...they make us laugh and they make us cry (some kids are scared of them). When I think of clowns, I think of the circus. I used to love clowns when I was a little girl. The way they would all come out of an itsy bitsy car, that they shouldn't have been able to fit into. I loved the way they would pants other clowns or the way they would shoot other clowns or the audience with water. There are a lot of good memories when it comes to clowns. If you love clowns, then you will want to make some clown crafts, and this page will give you some great inspiration and ideas. Have fun!
Besides providing wonderful fun in the making, a few of these funny clowns make perfect party decorations, particularly for a circus theme. Get a brown paper bag—medium size is best. Cut off the bottom and then slash it as shown in Figure a. This bag is the clown suit, so decorate it with crayons or paints, covering it with circles or crescents or any desig. Then take some light-weight cardboard and draw feet and a head and arms in the shapes suggested by Figure b. Color in bright socks and shoes. Draw a face and color the hat. Indicate the hands. Cut these shapes out. Slip the feet into the pants legs, and fasten the paper around the ankles with rubber bands or bits of string. Put the head and arms in at the top, and fasten the paper around the neck with a rubber band or bright string, making a little ruffle around the neck with the paper. The clown should now look like c. Put a small hole through the top of the hat and run a piece of string through, so the clown may he hung up. Making these clowns is a fun family project. The youngest members of the family can color the suits. The heads and arms and feet provide a good opportunity for the young artists to exercise their talent and imagination.
If you want to make this silly clown to use on your hand, then print out this clown picture. . Cut off the legs and paste the legless picture on a piece of cardboard, like cereal box cardboard. Now cut around the clown, cutting through the cardboard. Then cut out the two round holes in the bottom of the figure. Cut these out. Place your fingers through the holes. Make them move so that the clown will walk, jump, stumble, take a nose dive, or dance. Make several of these puppets. When your friends come to visit, ask them to join you in a show of clown tricks.
Learn how to make this clown doll with spools, hooked together with wires. Get some corks out and paint eyes, nose, and mouth on them. Remember that clowns normally have a big red nose. Put a wire through the head of the clown and knot the wire and put the end back into the head of the spool. Below the clown's head, twist another wire for the hands...put beads on them. Thenbelow the arms, put 2 more spools on there, and then below that, twist another wire below it and put beads on them and twist a knot at the bottom of both feet. Now you can paint buttons on the clown's body.
If you want to make a good clown hat or costume, then you need a good pom-pom. Don't go out and spend money to buy expensive yarn pom-poms...instead make these paper pom-poms. These turn out good in all colors and all sizes too. Just trace good circles and then you will fold them together and then sew the seam. They turn out to be excellent for your clown costumes. Find out how to make them here.
You'll have a lot of fun with this finger-puppet. By just moving your fingers, you can make him dance, walk, stumble, jump, and do all sorts of little tricks. Here's a picture of a clown to print out, but you can use any figure that you think will look funny dancing or doing tricks. Look through some old magazines and you will very likely come across a picture of some interesting figure. If your picture is in black and white, color it with crayons or paints. Cut out the picture. Then cut off the legs. Paste the legless picture on to a piece of cardboard. Now cut around the figure, cutting through the cardboard. You will have a nice, sturdy little puppet. Using a dime or a penny for an outline, cut two round holes in the bottom of the figure through which to put your fingers.
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