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How to Throw Carnival Horse Party
Carousel Horse party decor, food, favors, fun and games
Start with a stick horse or take her to a real carousel, and you're halfway there to throwing a terrific
carousel horse party. It's time to send in the ponies (and clowns) and to eat snow cones, taffy,
caramel apples, cotton candy, popcorn, ice cream and hot dogs with a memorable carnival party.
To make it extra horsey,
Here's how to have an old time Carousel Horse and Carnival Party:
Carousel Party decoration ideas
If you're throwing the celebration at home, a few carousel inspired props will give the feel of a
carnival. And the props can double as gifts for the birthday girl or boy.
More Ideas for a Carnival Theme and Carousel Horse Party:
Carousel horse inspired foods to serve at the party
Carousel Horse favors:
Carousel Decorations
Carousel Horse party decor, food, favors, fun and games
Start with a stick horse or take her to a real carousel, and you're halfway there to throwing a terrific
carousel horse party. It's time to send in the ponies (and clowns) and to eat snow cones, taffy,
caramel apples, cotton candy, popcorn, ice cream and hot dogs with a memorable carnival party.
To make it extra horsey,
Here's how to have an old time Carousel Horse and Carnival Party:
- Stick to it. Stick horses give the feel of a carousel. Have the kids do an old fashioned cake
walk prancing around in a stick horse, which can double as a favor to take home. Round up
the kids in their stick horses, turn on the carousel music and when the music stops award
a small prize: like a carousel horse sticker or a cupcake. The winner takes the cake prize.
- Carousel Horse Ring. Make your own carousel ring by tying horse balloons, upper right to
balloon weights or real horse shoes. Secure the balloon weights with tape or putty so the
kiddos won't take off with the horses. If you're holding the party outdoors, you can secure
them to the ground with tent stakes. Bring Carousel music to their ears. Download
Carousel music to your MP3 player and have it as background noise. Try:
- "Come To The Fair" Old Time Wurlitzer Carousel Music, Good Old USA Carousel
Music Volume 1" by Wurlitzer Model 146-A Band - "Old Time Carousel Music" by The Wurlitzer Band Organ or
- "Carousel Memories" by Replica Wurlitzer Band Organ and Verbeeck Band Organ.
- Let them eat a cake. The classic carousel horse cake, that is! Get inspired by the Carousel
Horse cakes others have created. Yes, you can make a memorable birthday cake using
Wilton Carousel Horse cake separators, special cake pans and your imagination, upper
right.
Carousel Party decoration ideas
If you're throwing the celebration at home, a few carousel inspired props will give the feel of a
carnival. And the props can double as gifts for the birthday girl or boy.
- Set up a carousel candy table. Start with an old fashioned gumball machine, left. You might
also set out apothecary jars filled with carousel confections. Carousel pops, for example,
also left.
- Give a carousel horse gift that doubles as decoration. The ultimate gift for the birthday girl is
the heirloom quality carousel horse musical jewelry box, pictured left. Any carousel toys you
display will bring the charm of yesteryear to your Carousel Horse Party.
- Assemble a paper model carousel. "Cut and Assemble and Old Fashioned Carousel!"The
paper carousel kit, right by A.G. Smith is a fun project and makes a fine centerpiece for your
carousel horse party.
- Be merry and amused with these merry-go-round ideas:
- Build a Chocolate carousel.
- Create Carousel Animal Apple.
- Stamp invitations with a Zazzle carousel horse postage stamp.
More Ideas for a Carnival Theme and Carousel Horse Party:
- Send in the clown (or puppeteer or face painter) to twist horse-shaped carnival balloons.
- Decorate in red and white with yellow and blue accents. Buy bunting, popcorn bags and
circus tent cups at Oriental Trading (and get cash back from your purchase). - Serve food in nostalgic plastic hot dog trays (find them on eBay with a "red plastic basket"
search). - Wrap your Carousel Horse favors in a popcorn bag, or use the popcorn bags for fun snack
mixes. You can also serve colorful candies in ice-cream cones. - Hang a colorful canopy. You'll find circus canopies online and at Oriental Trading. Or turn
Turn a patio canopy into a circus tent with some triangular flags you make from
construction paper. - Tie a Horse figurine to pull a box of animal crackers (such as the Barnum Animals Cookie
wagon box, pictured left). Use a pipe cleaner as the harness. Finding animal cracker boxes
is not as easy as you might thing, so buy them online.
- Don't horse around, buy what you need online now. Mylar balloons, like the carousel Horse,
left, make excellent Party favors and double as decoration for your Party. They're hard to find
locally, but you'll find them online in our Carousel Horse Party Supply store.
- Make a favorable impression with your creativity. Carousel Horse favors are hard to find, so
make your own: It's easy to affix a horse sticker or stencil cutout to a swirled candy stick, a
pencil, or a straw. The Carousel Animals Cut & Use Stencils book by Celeste Plowden,
availalble on Amazon, makes decoration easy.
Carousel horse inspired foods to serve at the party
- Bake carousel horse cookies or mold chocolates or candies into carousel horse shapes.
Bake sugar cookies with a Copper Gifts Carousel Horse cookie cutter. Or find a horse
shaped cookie cutter and bake with wooden sticks to make a cookie lollipop. Then frost the
cookies and twirl a colorful ribbon on the stick.
Carousel Horse favors:
- Do yourself a favor, check out Dover Carousel books: Dover makes Carousel horse and
animal sticker and activity books (about $1.50 each). Search "Dover Carousel animal" as
well as "Dover Carousel Horse." See the stencils, too.
Carousel Decorations
- Flag good deals online.
- This garden Carousel Horse Garden Charm flag, which measures 23.5" x 34", is
just $5 while supplies last (it has a $30 value). - You may find vintage Carousel horse toys and great deals on eBay, such as the
Wilton Carousel cake pan from 1990. Fisher price made some sweet merry go
round toys in the 1970s that you may find.With a little creativity beyond your search
for "carousel" items you can find "merry go round" or "carnival" items. Try also
"circus." We found carousel pencils, Sandy Lion Merry Go round stickers, custom
invitations, and carousel Horse chocolates on eBay. Wilton made a carousel cake
pan in 1990.
- Make colorful Rice Krispie treats by substituting a portion of the cereal with Fruity Cocoa
Pebbles. - Roll Wilton Rainbow Non Pariels (candy sprinkles) onto carmel apples and sprinkle them
generously to cookies and cupcakes. - Make edible table confetti from Necco Wafers.
- Any kind of fair food fits the carnival theme:
- caramel apples
- caramel corn
- circus peanuts
- cotton candy
- salt water taffy
- bricks of pink popcorn
- carousel candy gum balls
- snow cones
- ice cream
- hamburgers
- hot dogs / corn dogs
- nachos
- Carousel Horse Party Favors
- Horse shaped Lollipops (make them yourself with candy molds available on
Amazon or eBay. - Carnival masks
- Carnival toys (e.g. Rubber ducks)
- Rainbow swirl lollipops
- Crazy loop straws
- Mini Gum ball machines
- Games and Activities:
- Create edible carnival bracelets by stringing round foods, such as LifeSavers, fruit-
flavored cereals with holes, miniature cookies with holes, and gummy candies with
holes.
- Get crafty! Oriental Trading Company has a Carousel Horse Craft kit that includes
plastic gems, foam and wooden pieces to make twelve 7" carousel horses. It
doubles as a favor. Be sure to get cash back at Oriental Trading.
- Play pass the parcel in a merry go round fashion. Here's how to play the pass the
parcel Party game. Find one unique small toy for each child and wrap it well (a
popcorn bag is fun and adds to the theme). To play the game, have Party goers form
a circle. Hand one package to each child. Remember, each prize should be different
and have different shapes. Start the music. Children pass the packages around the
circle until the music stops. Then everyone gets to open the bag they're holding and
take home the unique trinket inside. Alternatively, have just a couple of bags floating
in the circle and as each child "wins" he can leave the circle to give the other Party
goers a chance to win too.
- Create a carnival atmosphere with a floating duck pond using a blow up swimming pool
and rubber duckies.
- Provide some Venetian masquerade face masks and have the kids apply their own
sequins, feathers and gems.
How to have a Carousel Horse
Party. Make a Wilton Carousel
Cake and more!.
Party. Make a Wilton Carousel
Cake and more!.
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This article by M.C. Nygard, right, former
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and mother of two horse crazy kids. Follow
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