How to Host an Adult Circus Theme Party

Come one, come all! Adults like the circus too. A circus is a great theme idea for a sorority, frat or any kind of adult. Here are some great circus theme party ideas for adults.

Things You'll Need

• A house to have the party
• Imagination!

Instructions

1. Ask your guests to arrive in costume as clowns, ringmasters, lions, daredevils or any other circus performer. Have a pack of clown noses ready for the party poopers who don't arrive in costume.

2. You can find some great cheap circus party supplies almost anywhere. Get some yellow and red poster board, cut it into rectangles, put them together and place it over your door as an awning. Buy some inflatable balls to strategically place around the house. Paint cardboard boxes bright colors. Blow up some balloons. Streamers are inexpensive and a wonderful way to decorate all around your house. You can make a mock tent easily by using a bed sheet and holding it up with five poles; one for each corner and a taller one in the middle.

3. Hamburgers and hotdogs are perfectly acceptable for a circus party. If it's a late night party and you're not serving food, consider putting out some bowls of peanuts or crackerjack. You can rent a cotton candy machine or popcorn machine or just pop some microwave popcorn and put it in a bowl. Go to a wholesale supermarket and get some pretzels as well.

4. Even adults like to play games. These can be fun after everyone's had a few drinks on them. You can turn a bean bag toss game into a drinking game. Place hula hoops on the ground in the backyard. Each time someone tosses a bean bag into the hula hoop of the opposing team, one opponent from the opposite team must take a drink.

   Another great drinking game to be played at an adult circus party would be the floating duck game. Fill a large container with water. Get some floating rubber ducks and write numbers on the bottom with Sharpie pens. Fill plastic cups 1/4 with beer. The number they pull is how many drinks they have to take.

   Have a hula hoop contest. Contestants will hula hoop at the same time. When they're out, they have to take a shot. Winner gets a prize.

Resources

• Theme Party Secrets Revealed!
• Party Planning Secrets