Circus ticket
booths are essential in all play circuses.
Create a circus ticket booth in your home and watch your child's imagination blossom. Children practice escapism through pretending. Building a circus ticket booth will help make a play circus more authentic. Depending on the location of the circus, you can place the ticket booth in your basement, backyard or front door. With a few materials, transform a simple cardboard box into the main gateway to a world full of animals, games and wonder.
Instructions
1. Choose a location for the circus ticket booth.
2. Place a refrigerator box upside down so the opened part is facing the ground.
3. Measure the cardboard box and cut according to your child's height. Remove the flaps and trim down the box by a few inches.
4. Place the cardboard box upside down again and mark a line on the box starting from 2 inches above your child's head to her chest. Use these points to create a square on the box.
5. Cut out the square to create an open window for the ticket and money exchanges.
6. Cut out a door in the back of the box for an entranceway.
7. Cut out a small hole in opposite sides of the box, wide enough to hold a wooden dowel. The holes should be positioned so that the dowel lies very close to front of the booth, sitting approximately 1 inch above the bottom of the window.
8. Glue two hooks underneath the window on the inside of the box. Place two bags on the hooks to store fake money, pre-inked inspection stamps and spare ticket rolls.
9. Paint the entire cardboard box white and wait for it to dry.
10. Paint long, vertical red stripes on the box and wait for the paint to dry.
11. Put a roll of tickets on a wooden dowel and place it into the holes.
12. Use construction paper and markers to make a ticket booth sign and glue it above the window.
