Difficulty Level: Medium

Safety Warning: Make sure you have lots of space, and ask an adult to spot your moves as shown in the video.

Tilly teaches you a front balance and back balance in this Acrobalance 2 tutorial with help from her acro partner Will. You’ll need a partner and a third person to spot, and a fair bit of space – if you have a garden, try it outside.

Acrobalance 2 is perfect for students aged approx. 8+, although younger viewers can work on it with a bit more help. It will help with balance, core strength and flexibility. You can try different variations as you get more confident! If you’re really comfortable, work on perfecting your technique like Tilly in the video.

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Difficulty Level: Hard

Safety Warning: Remember to warm up before trying the exercises!

This one is perfect for aerialists who are currently stuck with their feet on the ground! Sarah takes you through some grip strength exercises to strengthen your fingers, hand muscles and forearms.

Learn how to warm up your forearms and wrists first. Then, Sarah shows you how to use hairbands, a book, and a mop (!) for different exercises! You’ll feel the burn doing these every day…

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Difficulty Level: Hard

Safety Warning: Use a solid surface for your handstand drills – avoid doors, or just behind doors where somebody could knock you over. Clear a space for coming up and down and be wary of kicking anything!

Handstands don’t take much space, and you’ve got ages to perfect them. Get started with Lewis! Acrobatics: Handstands 1 is perfect for our students who’ve got some acrobatics and balancing experience, or who want to work a bit harder and do some handstand drills to perfect their technique.

Even though you don’t need lots of space make sure you’re safe and working with an adult if you need to.

Lewis shows you how to warm your wrists up safely. He then demonstrates handstand drills against a wall to help you open out your shoulders and perfect your line. He’s also got some helpful exercises on the floor to help with this using anything around your home. You can try these daily to make big improvements in your handstand technique!

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Difficulty Level: Medium

Safety Warning: Ensure you have plenty of space to do these tricks and make sure an adult is there to help you spot your moves.

Rachel takes you through the basics of a cartwheel, forward roll and backward roll in your own front room! Acrobalance 1 is ideal for students aged 8-12. Younger students can take part with more guidance and older students may want to revisit and perfect their technique.

After leading you through a warm-up Rachel shows you the perfect technique for each move. She’s also got some helpful tips for how parents can spot each move. Demonstrating with her trusty teddy, she shows you how to support and guide.

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Difficulty Level: Easy

Safety warning: Even soft things can hurt or break things – keep control of your juggling balls and use a clear space where possible. Don’t try balancing big objects straight away – work up to it!

Juggling and balancing objects is an easy and fun indoors task – learn the basics with Alan and Tom!

Beginners’ Juggling 1 is aimed at our students aged 4-8 but is also perfect if you’re older but haven’t done much juggling before, or want to brush up on the basics!

Alan shows you how to juggle with scarves (and home alternatives) and juggling balls – if you don’t have your own, watch our How To Make Juggling Balls video!

Alan and Tom then look at balancing objects on your hands and other body parts. Remember:

Make sure an adult is supervising
Ask permission before borrowing household objects to balance on your face!

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Difficulty: Hard

Maddie guides you through a five-min condition legs and core workout, using TLC’s Waterfalls as a guiding song! This one’s a bit tougher – great for keeping strong and conditioned at home no matter what your discipline is.

If you can’t practice your aerial discipline or your full acrobat routines within the confines of your home, work on your legs and core so that when you come back to Youth Circus you’ll be able to spring straight back into action.

Try doing this workout every day to keep fit – parents can join in too – or use it as a warm-up before you attempt one of our other videos.

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Difficulty level: Easy

A colouring in challenge for you from Alan! This one is for our younger viewers and their siblings. For clown face painting you need a printout of our clown face template, your colouring kit and some imagination. If you don’t have a printer, load the image on your device, or in a PC programme like Paint, and colour in onscreen.

Download your clown face template here, and find more circus colouring activities here.

Be as traditional or outrageous as you like! Tell us more about your clown – what are they called? What’s their favourite trick?

Once you’re done, send your creations to youthcircus@circomedia.com.We’ll upload these to a gallery on this page very soon.

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Difficulty: Suitable for all levels

Safety Warning: Younger viewers should get a grown-up to help, as this one involves some simple sewing.

Don’t have your own juggling balls at home? No problem! Alice shows you how to make your own from things you can easily find around the house.

It’s true that the pros can juggle with just about anything, but if you’re learning the basics we suggest using juggling balls. You can make your own with a pair of socks (ask before repurposing the laundry) and any kind of weighty filling like dry rice or lentils.

Alice takes you through how to create neat juggling balls that won’t unravel, with simple stitches to keep everything in place.

Once you’ve made them, start with Beginners’ Juggling to learn some tricks!

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