Quality Mardi Gras Crafts, Activities & Recipes

Mardi Gras Crafts, Activities and Traditions:

1. Tragedy and Comedy Garland
2. Make a Mardi Gras Wreath
3. Making a Mardi Gras Wreath with Deco Mask and a DIY Mardi Gras Bead Chandelier
4. Shoebox Float
5. Mardi Gras Mini Float
6. Craft an elegant Mardi Gras half mask
7. Miniature Mardi Gras Float from a Shoebox
8. Shoebox floats from Ms. Badeaux's second grade class
9. TP Roll Crafts of Kings: three versions
10. Handprint Mask Craft
11. Mardi Gras Jester Hat Craft and Holiday Song
12. Mardi Gras Feather Mask Craft
13. Mardi Gras paper bead craft for little ones
14. Historical Feather Fans (just eye-candy!)
15. Mardi Gras Mask Crafts from green plate rule
16. Draw Mardi Gras Performers
17. Mardi Gras Tutu Dress for Little Momo
18. 5 Ways to Reuse Mardi Gras Beads
19. Paper Plate Jester Craft
20. Toilet Paper Roll Craft
21. Jester Jumping Jacks (photo only) and mobile (photo only)
22. Pancake Day Activities
23. Pancake Day Story & Recipe
24. Pancake Day Events Around the UK
25. Crocheted Pancakes for Fat Tuesday
26. Papier Mache Hats
27. Making Masks From Recycled Materials
28. Parade-Float Ornaments
29. Liten prinsess krona
30. Decorate a Mardi Gras mask with tinsel pipe cleaners
31. Mardi Gras Bead Bracelets
32. Craft a beaded charger plate for a Mardi Gras party
33. A Jester's Hat from Powerhouse
34. Owl masks for Mardi Gras too!
35. DIY Mardi Gras Accessories You'll Actually Wear
36. Easy-peasy last-minute angel wings (no sew)
37. How to make a feathered mask cheap and quick!
38. Paper plate princess crown
39. Craft a gold crown step-by-step
40. A crown of friends
41. How to make a felt finger puppet for kids: jester pattern
42. Jester Puppet Magnet
43. Jingling Jester

Mardi Gras Recipes & Sweets:

1. Big Daddy's Mardi Gras Crown Cookies
2. Recipes for Mardi Gras and Fridays in Lent
3. King Cake and A Giveaway!
4. Mardi Gras King's Cake - Make Your Own Colored Sugar!
5. Pancake art here and here for Shrove Tuesday
6. Mini King Cupcakes
7. Mardi Gras Recipes from the Pocket Change Gourmet
8. Mardi Gras Smoothies

      "Learn how to make this festive Mardi Gras cake. Do you know what king cake is? Made famous in New Orleans, king cake is the classic ring-shaped Mardi Gras cake made for "fat Tuesday" with a lucky trinket baked right into the bread. In this video, you'll learn how to make a king cake. With this simple step-by-step recipes, you can make a traditional, delicious, properly decorated king cake with a cream cheese filling. You'll see a great trick for making sure the dough maintains its ring shape while rising and baking and see how to finish the king cake with a sweet lemon glaze and festive sprinkles of traditional Mardi Gras colors—purple, yellow, and green. Long live the king cake!" from Allrecipes

Bake a Pink Elephant Circus Cake

Ella Elephant's easy to make (Of course, you must use Angel Flake.) Her trunk is long for peanut scooping, Her ears are big and always drooping!  The pink elephant circus cake design was published by General Foods Corporation in 1959.

1. Start with two cooled 9-inch round cakes made from the recipe below. Cut a ring 11/2 inches wide from one layer. Cut out a third of the ring for her trunk.
2. Divide remaining piece of ring into four equal parts. Place uncut layer on a tray for the body. Use small circle for Ella's head. Add legs and a happy trunk.
3. Spread a fluffy pink frosting over cake and sprinkle Baker's Angle Flake coconut generously over the elephant. Use a big chocolate cookie for her ear . . . a gumdrop for the eye and a twist of licorice for the tail.

Ingredients:
2.5 cups cake flour
2 tsps baking powder
1⁄4 tsp salt
1⁄2 cup plus
2 tbsp butter
1 1/3 cups Redpath Granulated Sugar
3 tbsps frozen Pink Lemonade
1 tbsp lemon zest
1 tsp vanilla extract
4 large eggs
1 cup milk

Directions: Preheat oven to 350F. Grease 2 8" round pans and line bottoms with parchment paper. Sift flour, baking powder and salt in a medium bowl. Beat butter in mixer until fluffy. Gradually add sugar, scraping as needed. Add concentrate, zest and vanilla. Add eggs one at a time. Beat until smooth. On low alternate adding dry ingredients and milk (start and finish with dry ingredients). Bake cakes about 25mins, until toothpick comes out clean. Cool.

Pink Lemonade Frosting
500g Redpath Icing Sugar
2 cups shortening (can mix 1⁄2 butter, 1⁄2 shortening if you like)
1⁄4 cup Pink Lemonade Concentrate
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp meringue powder

Directions: Water as needed. Whip shortening (and butter, if using). Slowly begin adding icing sugar. Alternate between icing sugar and concentrate to keep frosting light and fluffy. Add vanilla. Add water if needed for spreading consistency.

More Ideas for Circus Party Fun: 

• Hamilton's vintage circus first birthday party!
• Print free elephant coloring pages for your party 
• A Whimsical Circus First Birthday Party
• Real life: Circus birthday party: photo ideas
• Circus Birthday Party Decorations
• A Circus theme party with a Rice Krispie Treat Cake