Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Make Your Own Clown Gags

Bombs trumped-up elsewhere of balloons can metamorphose Very funny gags in the hands of pleasant clowns.


Clowns carry been amusing others because Egyptian Pharaohs in 2500 and Chinese emperors in 1818 BCE. In 1805, Grimaldi became the cardinal contemporary Buffoon. Many apply time-honored gags and traditional routines, while others constitute their own props to fit embryonic storylines.


Running gags approximative the never-ending hankie, skills such as juggling, and props liking puppets are accepted. Gags can be prop-free or complicated and powered by pulleys and hermetic switches. Just out clowns should foundation simply.


Instructions


Never-ending Fabric


1. Section two dozen 18 by 18-inch strips from contrasting colourful fabrics. Hem all encompassing. Tie them well-adjusted to beget a 36-foot strip. Authorization one square untied.


2. Settle essence squares Apartment lodgings on top of Everyone other, folded agnate a fan. Levy pile in Buffoon pocket with one borderline sticking outside. Assign the unmarried in the other pocket.


3. Pull elsewhere ten squares, showing amazement. Blop the framework rope and let it drag endure you. Journey on it, end and pull gone another ten. Mime astonishment.


4.5. Pour a half Mug of rice into an empty bottle. Blow up a round balloon to grapefruit extent. Stretch the neck and put it over the bottle opening.




Repeat until you predispose to the borderline. Demonstrate relief.Act a twofold holding when you gaze the unmarried cloth edge in your other pocket. Mime awe and refuse to pull it outside.

Juggling Balls


6. Invert the bottle and pour the rice into the balloon. Remove the balloon and let it deflate. Trim the neck close to the body of the balloon. The rice will stay in the balloon.


7. Blow up another balloon and fit it over the first, covering the hole.


Cut the neck and a 2-inch piece of the top from a balloon of a different color. Stretch it over your juggling ball to make a contrasting stripe.


8. Cut holes in a contrasting balloon by pinching a piece between your fingers and snipping off the tip. Stretch it over the juggling ball to make circles.


9. Make a juggling ball in black twice as big. Cut a mouthpiece slightly larger than the cardboard out of felt. Cover the cardboard with it. Attach with glue.



Cut it out of cardboard for the mouthpiece.


11. Fold in half. Push into the sock so curved ends face the toe. Put your hand in the sock with your wrist bent and fingers on top and bottom of the mouthpiece.


Chalk a straight line one-half inch past the mouthpiece. Cut the sock on the line. Remove your hand.


12. Flatten the sock with the heel on top and mouth closed. Cut the sock fabric around the mouthpiece, leaving a half-inch edge. Unfold the top of the cardboard so the mouth is open.


13. Put a drop of glue on the bottom edge in the middle of the mouthpiece. Pull the sock fabric over the edge. Press it against the glue until set. Repeat at the top of the mouth.


Attach the fabric to the mouthpiece around the edge. Work in small sections to make sure the glue is firmly attached.


14. Mime that it is a heavy bowling ball or a bomb.

Puppet

10. Draw an oval the width of a sock and twice as long.


Stuff sock with paper to give it shape. Add a tongue, teeth, googly eyes, yarn eyebrows, a button nose and clothes to finish your gag puppet prop.