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July 2024 Viewpointe, Page 5
Clowns On Call

By Harriet Rubin, aka What is skit performance you might be asking? Well, center of attention. I’m hopeful that 90% of the kids attending
Florabelle the Clown many clown groups do not have performing groups. We are camp will be part of the show at the end of the season.
unique in that I have always had a skit group in the clown That’s all for now! Don’t forget to wave if you see a clown
Welcome Summer! alleys I have been involved with. I’m sure this is because on campus! 
Wow, has it been hot! We are I personally have always loved to
avoiding any outdoor events perform before an audience and I
for a while. Good news – We have also been directing for most of
have been clown training my adult life, so this area has been
at the Club’s summer camp easy for me to develop. There are
program and it is going very numerous silly skits available to
well. So far Juggles, Cutie clowns, including single skits and
Pie, Twinkle Toes and I have group skits. When I am dealing with
done 4 sessions. Twinkle Toes and I started off with a Red kids, I encourage voice projection,
Nose Reader session to introduce ourselves to the 18 kids, ages personality development, confidence,
6-11. I read the very funny book “Do-Whacky-Do” which is commitment, and of course great fun!
about 10 clowns going to town. We followed up with a few Over the years I have noticed how so
sing-along songs to demonstrate our kazoos, simple magic, many “shy” children of various ages,
and then made each one a balloon hat. The session was really blossom in a short time when they see
successful! Juggles did the next session and demonstrated and how much enjoyment they get out of
taught juggling scarves and balls. At his second class, he added performing for their families. It might
“plate spinning” which the kids absolutely loved. be the very first time they experienced
Two of them actually got the plate to spin! Of course applause for something they did. It’s
this is difficult and we hope to encourage a couple of the 12 generally not the outgoing, confident
kids who chose to learn the basics to be able to juggle in our kid that benefits so much from this
closing show. Juggling requires practice so we will see if any kind of activity, but the ones who
of the kids get hooked! Cutie Pie and I did the next class and hesitate to stand up in class and be the Twinkle Toes and Florabelle at the first clown class at summer camp
started out with applying clown makeup to those interested.
You can see from the photo how cute they all looked. Next
time the kids will apply it themselves, and I guarantee there
will be a lot more messy faces, but after a few times each child
will decide what they like and then a unique face will evolve.
I demonstrated a few simple tricks to encourage them to try
their hand at magic, puppet manipulation and finally how
to twist a long balloon. We decided to make swords as this
only involves 3 twists, but—- it is always difficult for many
kids to get the hang of twisting. By the end of the session, at
least 5 of them had figured out how to make a dog on their
own, and were they proud of their accomplishment! This
next week every child will make a kazoo instrument in the
arts and crafts program and then we will work on our “Boca
Pointe Marching Kazoo Band.” We will continue to teach
balloon twisting, simple magic, use of puppets, juggling and
add skit performance to the curriculum. I almost got it to spin! Cutie Pie with first clown faces

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