Muffin Tin Monday - Circus

We are back for another Muffin Tin Monday and this time everything in our tin is edible. The theme this week is the circus, so I decided to focus on clowns and serve sundaes. I was going to decorate the sundaes to look like clowns, but figured it would be more fun for C and R to decorate their own sundaes. They definitely enjoyed the decorating as much as they enjoyed the eating!

I filled the muffin tin with pretzel peanut butter sandwiches, licorice bites, M&Ms, animal crackers, and cone hats. All of these items were specifically requested by C and R.

This is R's clown sundae. She did a great job. You can see the M&M eyes, the licorice mouth, and the pretzels for hair.

This is C's clown sundae. His idea was to just put as much as possible on the ice cream before Mom changes her mind and takes the candy away!After enjoying the clown sundaes, we snuggled on the couch and read two circus books.


Circus Adventures was written and illustrated by a nine year old girl, Lindsey Wolter. The book is very well written and the illustrations are fantastic. The main character, Molly, goes to the circus and becomes one of the performers. Molly finds herself performing with the clowns, toppling the acrobats, and being shot out of a cannon. This is a fun, action packed read and it is perfect for young children because the illustrations tell the whole story.

Olivia Saves the Circus by Ian Falconer features our favorite little pig describing her summer adventures to her class. Olivia tells her classmates about a visit to the circus where all of the performers were suffering from ear infections, but luckily Olivia was willing and able to juggle, walk the tightrope, clown around, tame lions and more to save the circus. We think Olivia is adorable!

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