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Come one, come all to the Greatest Carnival in town!
Roll up, roll up! Mrs Peach Parties presents the Greatest Carnival – a place to witness the strange and unusual, delve into the unknown and to take part in some spectacular celebrations! We’ve got wild animals, circus skills, festival fun, carnival catwalks and of course, a magical adventure with lots of help from our Greatest Showman!
Our party begins outside the circus tent where the crowds congregate, ready to experience the wonders within. Our guests at the party have been invited backstage, behind the curtains to learn all about the magic of the carnival and so we get ready to see all of the wonders that await us! Before we go inside to watch the show however, we hear from our ringmaster about the the silly clown who turned naughty because he had too many red noses! Clowns only wear one magic red nose, however one of the clowns in the last town we visited got greedy and stole all of the other clowns’ red noses, turning him into the super naughty clown! Hopefully that doesn’t happen today, but just in case we see him there are a few things we need to do before we enter the tent so we can save the show!
There are lots of different pieces of equipment inside the circus tent and we need to know how they work in case the naughty clown tries to cause any mischief, so we prepare by completing our circus skills obstacle course! We cross the balance beam, jump through the ring of fire, crawl through the magic vanishing tunnel, spin plates and hop through the hula hoops to rapturous applause from our audience. We then need to learn about all the wild animals that might be inside the tent. On the advice from the animal trainers we need to do our animal impressions so the animals feel comfortable with our presence, so out come the animal headbands and we do lots of animal dancing and sounds, swapping to a different animal each time the music stops!
It’s then time to enter the tent to check on the animals and the first task is to feed the fish that people can win when they play the fairground games! They should all be in their tanks ready for their new homes, but OH NO!! The naughty clown is in there and he’s throwing all of the fish out of their tanks!! We must race against him to get the fish back safe in their tanks and then chase him out of the tent while we check on all of the other animals and formulate a plan.
In order to beat the naughty clown and make sure he doesn’t ruin the show we must touch the Orb of Power and activate our Carnival Superpowers, meaning we will have super strength and super circus skills! In order to test our current strength we each hold a strength tester and ask a grownup to hold the other side. Before we touch the Orb of Power we will not be able to take it off our grownup as they are bigger and stronger than us, however after we touch the Orb of Power we are easily able to take the strength tester from our grownups! When we have proven our super strength Carnival Superpowers we’ll take turns holding the heaviest weight in the whole world and lifting it above our head in front of the backdrop, to lots of applause from the audience.
The next part of our preparation to save the show involves working as a team. The children will be asked to choose a friend or grownup and tie one of their legs together so they become conjoined twins, an important part of any circus show! Our conjoined twins try walking around and show everyone they are great at teamwork and then it’s time to go find the naughty clown. We make our way backstage and find the clown messing up the wardrobes and on the floor next to him is a basket full of the other red noses that he’s stolen from the other clowns. It’s our job to steal the red noses back from him so he’s only left with the one he is allowed, and when we manage to do that the naughty spell is broken, turning him back into just a normal silly clown. In order to teach the clown a lesson so he never steals any more noses we make him go behind the puppet show and we throw sponges at him and then we all celebrate saving the show by making beautiful shapes with our gymnastics rainbow wands.
It’s then time for our festival parade through the town and down the red carpet so the children go to the accessories and props table, choose an item of festival dress up and take it in turns to parade and pose in front of the backdrop, again to rapturous applause from the audience! The children will then receive their amazing fortune telling gifts as a thank you from the circus master for saving the show and we’ll move onto photos so they can remember their most amazing adventure at the Greatest Carnival!
Personal touches can also be added to make the day even more special, e.g. favourite songs, introductions of special guests (e.g. a parent or friend dressed up as a superhero, animal or princess etc) or even games/activities created specifically to suit a favourite themed TV, book or film character.
We reserve the right to change or alter the activities described above if there are special requests incorporated or as new games/activities are created etc, however we will always have a call with the party organiser the week of the party to discuss this, agree the party flow and ensure the celebrations are extra special for the birthday boy or girl!
All of our parties have a themed magic potion option to add on which works fantastically instead of a party bag! The children will join together as we learn about the naughty clown and decide to go backstage to save the show! They’ll then receive a fortune telling fish as their pass the parcel gift, along with a treat! Adding on the carnival potion will allow them to create another themed gift to take home and remember their adventures!
Our Greatest Carnival party brings all the best elements of the circus, carnival and festival together and after we save the show we all take part in a fabulous festival parade to celebrate! With snakes, wigs, feather boas, headbands, fans and lots of other flamboyant festival wear we strut our stuff down the red carpet and pose for the adoring crowds!
Our fabulous circus background is the perfect backdrop to lead the party in front of and then truly immerse the children in the carnival theme for a gorgeous photoshoot at the end. We encourage grownups to have photos in front of the backdrop with their little ones also so they get an extra special memory of the party, plus we do group photos and individual ones of each child.