Circus Across the Arts!
Lura Libby School/Cushing Community School/St. George School
Spring 2006

tent iconClowns Create a Clown
The Big Top: Clowns
History of Clowns and Clowning
tent iconCircus Trains Go to Google and use the Image search to find pictures
of circus trains.  Searching for "circus wagons" will get
better results than searching for "circus trains".
tent iconCircus Acts Juggling
http://www.jugglingdb.com/articles/index.php?id=22
http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/webmonkeys/juggling/
http://www.cix.co.uk/~solipsys/new/Juggling.html
Juggling Picture Gallery: http://www.juggling.org/pics/

Cup Stacking
http://speedstacks.com/home.htm

Acrobatics

Balancing
high wire
for teachers: http://www.tpt.org/newtons/13/hwire.html
kid version: http://www.darylscience.com/Demos/TightRope.html
http://WWW.DOWSLANE.ORG/titrope.htm
stilts and stilt walking
http://www.juggling.org/help/circus-arts/stilts/
plate stacking
http://www.juggling.org/help/circus-arts/plate-spinning/

Jumping Rope
http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwfit/jumprope.html
http://library.thinkquest.org/5407/skills.html
http://coe.west.asu.edu/students/kmthomas/jrwebquest.htm
double dutch
http://www.nationaldoubledutchleague.com/
http://www.streetplay.com/thegames/jumprope/ddd/ (has videos)

 

tent iconCircus Animals Ringling Bros. Amazing Animals
To find pictures of circus animals that you can use to
create your animal mask, go to Google.  On the line above
the search bar, click on more >>, then click on Images. 
Type in circus + the name of the animal you want to use
for a mask.  For example, type "circus elephant".  Click 
on ONE picture that you think will be the most helpful 
when you make your mask.  Go to File, Print, click on 
Page Range, Pages: 1.  Click on the Print button ONE 
time.
tent iconCircus Web Sites CircusFit
The Big Top
Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey
CircusWeb: Circus Past and Present
Circus World
For Teachers:
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/themes/circus.shtml
printable books on the circus, including one in French
http://www.dowslane.org/circus.html, a circus unit designed by teachers in Irvington, NY
http://42explore.com/circus.htm, The Topic: Circus.  Alas, not all links work. 

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