Cute, Jamz!
Add a carrot and a couple of black buttons or lumps of coal
and you have a melted snowman, or a snowman kit.
I find that it is very hard to walk fast enough in a parade,
and it is most likely due to the big shoes. However, we
usually follow right after some fire equipment and the firemen
aren't very good at going slow enough for a parade, either.
We've been chastised for going too slow, so these days we don't
get to work the crowd much other than waving.
Comfortable shoes are a must, and our parades are only a couple
of miles long. But when we're done, I'm always whooped!!
I like the "shoe shine" gag -- I carry my doctor's bag with
a sign on the side that says "Free Shoe Shine" Then I stop
and pull out a flashlight and shine it on a spectator's shoes.
Build a big telephone pole out of foam. Have a telephone
connected to it by a long string of uninflated 260 balloons.
You walk out in front, talking on your "mobile phone" while the
other clown struggles with the telephone pole.
For our western days parade, I glue a small western hat on
my (bald) head. It's a doll-sized plastic hat and I use nose
glue. We then ride stick horses. I usually dump small
handfuls of sawdust, and we have one clown following up
with a broom and dustpan. He has thought about a sign
that says "I'm just glad they're not stick elephants."
Everybody has stick horses on brooms, but I have mine on
a mop, and have training wheels on it. It's my horse in
training. Periodically I'll stop and mop an area of the street.
Christmassy - my wife has bought several feet of Christmas
garland and wrapped it around her. Wrap up in a string of
christmas lights and "jingle bells" around your wrists and ankles
as well.
Radio and I wanted to carry a ladder between us and have strings
of lights all wrapped up around us and the ladder. A huge tangled
mess. Use battery-powered lights so they can be all lit up.
If you have a radio-controlled model car, put a santa hat over
it so you can have a santa hat that rolls down the street with
you. You or someone can control it and make it circle back around
and between your legs, etc. My only concern there is how long a battery charge would last.
Well, you can see we have done some of this stuff and thought about
doing other bits.
good luck!
Ashes
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