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Make your own toy circus

This toy circus dates from 1930 and was published in France. It was printed out on a single sheet to be cut out and put together at home. To make your own French circus, save the instruction sheet at the bottom of this page, and print it out. Then, on some thick paper, print off the four pages with all the pieces of the model circus.

Find out about the toy circus

  Photo of a finished circus revolving
 
What to do

1. To download the Toy Circus click on either of the download links (Download icon). Your computer will then ask whether you want to save the file (if it doesn’t, click on the ‘download’ link with your right mouse button and choose the ‘Save target as…’ or ‘Save link as…’ option).

2. Once you press ‘save’ your computer will ask you where to download the file to. Select a location that you will remember, perhaps the desktop or your ‘documents’ folder.

3. After the download has finished, which may take several minutes if you are using a modem, you will need to 'unzip' the file (because the file has been compressed, or ‘zipped’ to make the download faster). New versions of Windows will do this automatically for you. If it does not, then you will need to download a program to unzip the file, such as WinZip, which is free and available at www.winzip.com

4. Once the files are unzipped you can view the instructions (by opening the document 'Instructions.pdf') and begin to create your own toy circus. If you do not have PDF viewer software installed on your computer you can download a free version from www.adobe.com

Download toycircus_pdf.zip

PDF version
toycircus_pdf.zip
(1.4 meg)

Download toycircus_html.zip

HTML version
toycircus_html.zip
(1.4 meg)

 

Photo of a finished circus on it's original template