We had a fun-filled and jam packed week, two weeks ago. It started out with the Altitude Design Summit. We set up some tables for the Tabletop Photography classes for Nicole Hill Gerulat and Blue Lily Photo (Wendy and Tyler Whitacre). Sara came up with this genius Circus Party theme and coordinating printables. We set up several scenes for the students to shoot–just like we do for our parties. The teachers were able to teach them different lighting techniques using these scenes. Here are the photos, taken by Nicole. And if you scroll down you can get the printables to use for your own Circus Party.
The cake is lined with chocolate Sixlets candies. The elephant sits atop a doubled cupcake liner (cut a small slit in the top of the liners and stick the tab in). The seal (on the cake and cupcakes) has a sucker taped to the back for the ball on its nose. The trapeze girl has red tulle glued to her skirt and is suspended on string (with her feet folded over and glued on) in between two straws. To hold the straws in place use long sucker sticks or skewers, stuck deep into the cake. The invitation was cut with a tiny scalloped scissor and punched in the corners to look like a real ticket.
Click on an image below to download the printable.
sources:
cake and cupcakes: Simply Sweet Cakes
red striped bags and blue straws: Shop Sweet Lulu
blue striped and blue polka dot cupcake liners: Bake it Pretty
red harlequin cupcake liners: Hey Yo Yo
blue cake stand: Home Goods
red cake stand: Martha Stewart Collection at Macy’s
popcorn bags: Cost Plus
elephant boxes: Home Goods
rolls of tickets: local party supply stores
swirl lollipops: Hammond’s Candies via Zurchers
strong man: Cost Plus
stamps: eBay
Photos by Nicole Hill Gerulat. Graphics by Sara Westbrook.
47 Comments
beautiful!! Thank you!
Etta
Beautifull i love!!!! everything you post.Thanks for the freebies
love the cake toppers-so super cute!
love it!
I love this idea. So colorful and fun!
I just found your site last week and am LOVING it.
I adore this. I’m wanting to do a circus party for one of my kids in the future and this just gave me even more idea! 
It’s beautiful without being overdone. Wonderful site!
This is so adorable! I am going to bust this out for Teddy’s 3rd birthday! Thanks so much for the printables gratis…that is so kind. That cake is darling and so simple to make!
I’m just so in love with the strong man wakouwa, the birthday cake looks great, i love the jar filled with jelly beans and lollipops!
Thank you so much for the printables!
love it. where do you get the colorful paper disks that go on the cupcakes – are they edible?
This Circus Party is just adorable! What a fun and colorful party!
karen farnsworth–That paper is just confetti. No, it’s not edible. It was just for the picture the students were taking.
Where did you get the polka dotty table cloths? Thanks!
Dena–The polka dotty table cloth is just a piece of fabric from a local fabric store. I don’t know the name of the fabric however.
Very cute. Thanks!
I love this Those seal toppers are the cutest thing.
the cake toppers are really adorable – what a talented little seal!
so darn cute!
j’adore! i particularly love the rolls of ticket incorporated: so perfect..
The pics turned out amazingly well! I had so much fun taking the class from Nicole and it was cool to see the behind the scenes set up of this shoot.
I absolutely adore the use of lollipops for the seal ball toy – genius! Well done and thanks for the freebies!
My favorite part of this is the tightrope girl!!! Adorable. We threw a circus themed party for our eldest when he turned 3. It was awesome
Such a great theme!
THIS. IS. AWESOME.
Gorgeous use of color and I love the cupcake wrapper upside down under the elephant for the platform. Too amazing! Fab job…it always is.
My little one’s 2nd birthday is only 5 months away…
Gives me time to steer her in this direction so I have an excuse to use all of these fabulous printables & ideas!
Wow…this is an amazing party! Love it! And the downloads are so nice. Thank YOU!!
What a fabulous party theme! Everything is adorable. I am in love with your site – I am your newest subscriber!
Chelsea
I wish you had this when I did my son’s circus party in Dec! I love the invites. You’ve put together some really nice touches. Here’s a link to what I did:
http://rabbitandpiggie.blogspot.com/2010/12/its-circus.html
Thank you for the free templates. This is a gorgeous party I can’t wait till my sons birthday!!
This is adorable! Love the printables!
What a neat idea! I love the circus!
I am so in love with this entire party. Is 18 years old too old to have a Circus party for yourself? Because I reaally want to right now.
This circus table is so perfect!
Thank you so much! I’m in love with these! I need a little help though- maybe I’m just stupid, or my printer may be running low on certain inks? But when I print the invites it doesn’t have the little blue scored lines? Has any one else had this problem? Just so I know if the problem is on my end?
Lucy–I don’t know what the problem could be. It printed out fine for me. Hhmm…
It’s gotta be on my end then! Thanks for the speedy response!
I LOVE this party theme and really want to do a circus theme party for my soon-to-be-3 year old. I’m not familiar with Cost Plus or Home Goods. Is it a store or something I can find online?
Thanks!
Tara
Where did you find the postage stamps? Love them!!
Can’t thank you enough for posting this fantastic party!!! My 10 year old had a trapeze party this past weekend and we were able to incorporate lots of these ideas into her day. She LOVED it!!!
I did a version of this party over the weekend for my son’s 2nd birthday! Thank you for all of the cute ideas, I wish I could have used them all! I added a little photo booth for the kiddos. Here is a link with a few pics, if you want to see what you inspired!
http://www.jhillsphotography.com/2011/06/circus-party.html
LOVE this party! I stumbled on your blog in my search for circus party inspiration…LOVE it. I am using the download cake toppers…I hope it’s okay, my daughter is Ethiopian and I photoshopped the tightrope girl’s skin to be brown…I’d love to share it with you so you can offer it here as well. It’s tricky finding cute little brown skinned girls for party supplies!I’d love for other’s to have access to it too. I’m going to blog my party next week, and I’ll be sure to share the inspiration from your blog!
Hi Eryn Kesler–I saw your email. Thanks! I’ll see what I can do. xo
Hi there, just wanted to let you know that I linked back to you in our blog post yesterday. We used your seal circus printables for our backyard carnival! Thank you
http://just-starting-out.blogspot.com/2011/08/we-done-good-carnival-for-cause.html
YEAH! i hope to do a circus party soon. our son will turn 3! can you share with me where you got the darling vintage font on the invitations? THANK YOU!
Great party idea! I linked you in a post I just wrote about Circus Themed Parties:
http://bearhavenmama.com/2011/08/15/circus-party-stuff-a-plush-style/
Where did you get the strong man on the tickets an the tableclothes? An wht kind of paper do you print the cake toppers on?
Hi Dana–I’m not sure where the strong man is from, but the cake toppers are printed on white matte brochure paper from the office supply store (Office Max or Office Depot should have it). xo
Thanks for the idea. I plan using circus idea for my 3yo girl birthday party
Thanks so much for the printables and the inspiration. I used both the cake toppers and your invitations for my son’s circus party: http://createstudio.blogspot.com/2011/11/circus-party-show-must-go-on.html
Oh now these are EXACTLY what I wanted! I have circus cookie cutters and was dying to do a circus theme for my baby’s 1st birthday! (and many more because who says you can’t do it more than once?) So THANK YOU for these gorgeous and stylish FREE printables!!!
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