CATCH THE PERFORMERS

Two Joey Scouts hold hands and are the NET. Others are circus performers, swinging around as the net attempts to catch them. If they are caught they become part of the net, all holding hands.

MUSICAL SPOTLIGHTS (a.k.a. Musical Chairs)

Equipment Ipod, chalk; 50cm diameter circles drawn on floor for spotlights, with less than half the number of Joey Scouts participating at a time; damp cloth.

Method: All move around as if riding horses until music stops and then run to a spotlight and pose. A circle is then removed with the cloth. Any Joey that cannot fit into a circle is out of the game. Continue this until there is only one circle left.

PLATES ON STICKS

Joeys place paper plates on sticks (dowel cut to length) and spin plates and try and keep them balanced on a stick like a clown. (Use plastic plates if paper doesn’t work)

CRAFT:

Paper plate clowns – draw around hands and cut out for hair. Draw face on plate, pompom nose? Google eyes etc. Pin finished poster on noticebard!

CIRCUS CHARADES

Mime a clown, tightrope walker, ballet dancer, clown sword fighting, horse rider, conductor of music, ringmaster, ball, lion tamer, elephant driver.