Ellie's Circus Party

A while back Eliza helped Ellie decide to do a circus theme for her birthday party. So I went to work on an invitation and last Tuesday was the big day. We ended up doing her party in our garage. We were going to do it outside, but it was very cold and one of our sprinklers decided to malfunction and stayed for a LONG time creating practically a lake in our backyard. So to prevent any accidents falling in the water, we set everything up in the garage. It worked well and contained the mess and the kids!

When the kids arrived, we fed them some mini corn dogs and French fries and Kool-Aid.


Then we started the games. First they tried to be the first to eat a donut off a string.





Then they tossed bean bags into buckets and then tried to pin the nose on the clown. Eliza drew the clown for us and did a terrific job! I told her it would have taken me hours to get the poster done when she did it in just a few minutes.



The kids seemed to enjoy all the games, but they were done in way less time than we had allowed. So we got out Hullabaloo and let them play a couple rounds of that before going inside for Ellie to open her gifts.


That was a whirlwind, so I had my dad entertain them with a Simon Says.



We sang a couple of impromptu songs, then went back into the garage for cake and ice cream. When the parents came to pick up, each guest got a goodie bag that Ellie had so much fun putting together, and they also got a bag of cotton candy and bag of popcorn.

Later that night, Ellie said, "That sure was a fun party." I guess we did well!