Page Toppers

Quotes

• For me a circus is a magic show that appears and disappears like a world. A circus is disturbing. It is profound. (Marc Chagall)
• I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel. (E. B. White)
• If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall. I would go to more dances. I would ride more merry-go-rounds. I would pick more daisies. (Nadine Stair)
• We will never have animals in our shows. They are animals not performers, they should be in the jungle. (Pierre Parisien of Cirque du Soleil)
• You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and why his parents will always wave back. (William D. Tammeus)

Circus ABC's

A - acts, acrobats, aerialists, amazing, amusement rides, animals, anticipation, applause, arcade, awesome
B - balancing act, balloon animals, Barnum and Bailey, bears, big top, brass band, box seats
C - cages, camels, cannon, carnival, carousel, cars, center ring, children, circus, clowns, contortionist, cotton candy, costumes
D - dance troupe, dancing bears, daredevil, dazzling, dogs
E - elephants, enjoyment, entertainment, enthusiasm, excitement
F - family, fantastic, fire-breathing, food, freak show, fun
G - Grand Finale, grandstand, gymnastics
H - handstand, high dive, high wire, hilarious, hoops, horses, human cannonball
I - I liked the ____ best!, ice cream cone, incredible
J - joy, juggling, jumping
K - kids, knife thrower
L - lemonade, leopard, lion
M - magic, magnificent, make believe, makeup, midway, mimes, monkeys, music
N - net, noise, novelties
O - oddities, over too soon
P - parades, peanuts, performers, popcorn, puppeteers
Q - queue, quick action, quite____
R - ring toss, Ringling Brothers, rings, ringmaster
S - seals, sensational, side show, spot light, stilt-walker, stunts, sword swallower
T - tent, three rings, thrills, tickets, tigers, tight rope walker, trapeze, travel
U - unbelievable, unforgettable, unicycle
V - vaudeville acts, ventriloquist
W - wagons, walking on stilts, whistle, wonderful, wow!
X - eXcellent, eXciting, eXtraordinary, eXtremely _____
Y - young at heart, youngsters
Z - zany, zebra, zoom lens (for photos)

The Circus

Merry-Go-Round

(Virginia Baker)

Camels and bears and ponies are found
All prancing about in the merry-go-round

Carousel Page

 First cut a red triangle for the top of the carousel. It is a shallow triangle. The width is about a wide as a page and the height is about 2 or 3 inches. Adhere the triangle to the page with the top point of the triangle touching the top of the page. Then cut a gold triangle that is about 1/3 as wide at the base as the red one and just slightly shorter. Center it on the red triangle with the top point touching the top of the page.

Next cut a 12-inch long strip of teal about an inch or more wide. Draw with the scallop borderline along one long edge and cut out. Put the strip (scallop side down) along the bottom of the red triangle.

To make the pole (you could make more than one) cut 2 strips of paper (one red and one gold) using the wavy borderline as a pattern. The strips should be long enough to go from the scallop teal strip to the bottom of the page (about 8 or 9 inches) and about 1/4 inch wide. Loosely intertwine the two strips and adhere to the page so they look like a twisted pole.

Adhere the teal die-cut horse in the center of the strip. Cut a saddle for the horse out of red paper. You can also add small flowers around the horse's neck and/or on his head. (based on an idea by CMC Linda M)

roller coaster

So this is the roller coaster.
Hey! Look, we're climbing up.
In fact, we're going quite high,
Trucking up to the top.

Why is everyone tense?
Why do some folks frown?
Oh! Now I get it!
Because we're going
DOWN!

Country Fair

Let's all go to the country fair,
there's blossoms and ribbons and hope in the air.
The harvest is in and we have time to spare,
and the best place to be is the county fair.

There is nothing better that I have found
Than hearing music with a glorious sound
As we ride round and round on the merry-go-round.
And so to the country fair I am bound.

Page Idea - Amusement Park

I did do a Ferris wheel page recently! Used my circle cutter to make a circle about 6 inches in diameter, and then without moving the post, made the circle about 5-1/2 inches, thereby getting that circle "outline" shape. Freehand cut the base (big tall triangle) and cut small triangles for the cars. Mine happened to be for the state fair, and I had quilt pictures and Ferris wheel pictures, so I decorated the cars with Mrs. G. quilt stickers and cut the Ferris wheel in the same purple/green/blue colors. It sounds pretty weird when I explain it, but I've gotten lots of compliments on it. For a roller coaster, you could do the track swooping up and down across a two-page spread, with paper cars or just your photos "riding the rail." (unknown)

We're Going To The Farm

(Hilary Martin)

We're Going to the Farm...
We'll see the chickens and the ducks,
We'll hear the "quacks" and all the "clucks"!
We'll ride a big tractor, and feed a tall horse,
But the best will be the goats, of course!!!

Also see the Farming file