Clown for a Day

Everyone loves a clown. Use your imagination with Crayola® Washable Window Markers to become the circus clown of your dreams!

1. Insert a large picture of yourself, such as a school picture, into a plastic picture frame.

2. Invent a clown character that suits your personality. Decide if you will be a happy clown or a sad clown. Will you be a quiet clown or a loud clown? Colorful or monochromatic?

3. Most clowns start with white makeup as a base, but you may choose any color. Using Crayola Washable Window Markers, decorate the plastic frame on top of your face so you look like a clown.

4. Add clown colors to the picture around your eyes and mouth. What kind of a nose, eyebrows, hat, and hair will you have? If you change your mind, just wipe off the color with a damp paper towel, dry, and decorate your clown face again.

Adult supervision is required for any arts & crafts project.

Mirrors, Picture Frames, and Plant Pots—Close adult supervision is required when children use craft materials that could shatter or break. Handheld mirrors, picture frames with glass, ceramic pots, and similar breakable items may be used only by children 8 years and older. For children 7 years and younger, use unbreakable materials such as wood or sturdy plastic picture frames, unbreakable mirrors, and plant pots that will not shatter into sharp edges.

Night-Owl Frame

Easter Bonnet

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Crafts

crayola supplies

• Window Markers

household supplies

• photograph(s)
• picture frame

"We found different kinds of clown pictures on the Web. Each child made a different type of clown."
Margaret O., after-school craft coordinator.

"The kids had such a great time that we created more circus performers with other family pictures."
Naomi M., mom of children ages 9 and 11.

Clowns were first recorded in 3000 BCE in Ancient Egypt. The type of clown we know today began in the Middle Ages. The most common types of clowns are the Auguste clown, who is clumsy, wears exaggerated makeup, plays silly jokes, and wears bright, oversized clothes, and the Whiteface, who is more serious, wears less exaggerated makeup, and usually wears a one-color, oversized costume.