Silly Sally The Clown

Very often, real life is funnier than fiction. I received this photo from a friend today and thought it told a great story from right here in central Iowa. Life brings us lots of “gaps” along the way. Sometimes we bring these “gaps” upon ourselves like this fellow in the photo. He made a choice to ignore the “Road Closed” signs and fell into the “gap”. But, often times, “gaps” come and we have no control over them. We lose a job, experperience loss of a loved one, have children who make poor choices or just plain have a bad day. How do you respond? Do you laugh, cry, get angry? If you can try and look at the “gaps” as teachable moments and look at the humor they may present, you truly are adding years to your life. Can you imagine the insurance agent’s response on this call? As I present many of my health and humor programs, I remind participants that laughter really has lasting effects on our health even when those “gaps” come our way. Take time to fill in your gap today with a smile! For more information on bringing a fun and educational program to your group or business, check out my website: www.smilepresentations.com

I have been super busy in Iowa the last few weeks of summer. I performed at the Iowa State Fair, Wall Lake Farm Festival, at many birthday parties and have been busy taking my KangaKids FunBus to area daycare centers. In addition, I helped judge 4-H projects at the Iowa State Fair for several days. It sure was a pleasure to evaluate so many exhibits by young people from across Iowa as well as help kids who were performing in Share The Fun.(Talent Show) Summer is slowly coming to an end with the kids heading back to school this week and fall is just around the corner. If you would like to learn how you can have me come to your special event, birthday party, school or daycare center, be sure to check out my website: sillysallytheclown.com

Sally Shaver recently spoke at a Methodist women’s retreat at Camp Victory near Rochester, Minnesota.  The title of her presentation, “Keeping Your Head Above Water” helped participants learn how laughter and joy are part of Christian living.  Sally had the ladies laughing, singing and learning all about living a joyful life.  Sally is a certified laughter leader through the World Laughter Tour.  To learn more about Sally’s presentations, go to her website: http://www.smilepresentations.com

Silly Sally is busy this week at the Page County fair in Clarinda, Iowa.  She is performing three stage shows each day and entertaining fair goers with her balloon creations.  To learn more about Silly Sally’s  stage entertainment, check out her website: www.sillysallytheclown.com

Silly Sally and four of her clown friends attended the Fellowship of Christian Magicians conference in Marion, Indian July 13-18th.  Sally learned many new magic tricks, stage tips, puppetry ideas and had a great fellowship time with her pals. She plans to utilize many of her new ideas for future gospel programs.

Sally Shaver helped the employees from the Carroll County Iowa Family Resource Center  to enjoy a day of laughter and learning in the tranquil setting of Hidden Acres Camp near Dayton, Iowa on October 8, 2007.   Participants learned about the health benefits of adding more laughter and humor into their workplace as Sally entertained and encouraged them with activities, magic, ventriloquism and laughter exercises. 

The current research tells us that preschool children laugh on the average of 400 times per day while adults only chuckle about 15 times.  Laughter releases endorphins into the brain which gives us that “feel good” sensation, reduces blood pressure and can help to decrease depression.  Therefore, Sally is on a mission to help others of ALL ages to laugh through her presentations and with her professional clown character, Silly Sally.

Sally is a certified laughter leader through the World Laughter Tour and presents programs to groups for corporate trainings, teacher trainings, women’s retreats, community organizations and church groups.  Check out the Smile Awhile Presentations website to find out more about Sally’s programs.

Silly Sally and Giggles entertained kids of all ages with face painting, balloon twisting and with Silly Sally’s Jump A Roo bounce house for the City of Ames Electric Services open house.   A huge crowd enjoyed touring the City of Ames Electric power plant eating a great lunch and receiving bucket rides by city employees.  This annual event was held on a beautiful windy day and fun and educational opportunities were had by all who attended.

 To learn how Silly Sally and KangaKids Party Entertainment can come to your next party, community or corporate event, check out Silly Sally’s website

Silly Sally provided walk around entertainment, balloon twisting and set up her inflatable Jump A Roo bounce house at the recent employee picnic for the City of Ames.  Adults and kids enjoyed laughing with Silly Sally and the children jumped for fun in the Jump A Roo as well as watched Silly Sally twist up balloon creations.  Great BBQ food was served up for all by legendary Hickory Park restaraunt from Ames.

 For more information on how Silly Sally and friends can entertain at your next community, corporate or private event, check out Silly Sally’s website.

New FIT Kids act is a winner!  Silly Sally highly recommends the new bill H.R. 3257 that has been proposed and will be presented to Congress.  As a certified K-12 physical education and health teacher, Sally Shaver aka Silly Sally has long questioned the lack of physical education requirements in the original No Child Left Behind legislation.  With a childhood obesity epidemic in full swing, children need quality, daily physical activity and schools need to put PE back into their required courses and help students learn about other healthy habits including nutrition.  This new bill could be nicknamed, “No Child Left On Their Behind.”

Iowa is one of the few states that requires some kind of PE at 50 minutes per week at the secondary level.   But even with this requirement, many students are still not getting the needed and recommended daily physical activity.  Sally also believes that PE teachers and schools should be held accountable for providing high-quality PE by following national benchmarks and standards created by NASPE.

The KangaKids FunBus is available to come to central Iowa preschools and daycare centers and provides quality physical education classes for young children.  Kids love to participate in the numerous activities including tumbling and gymnastics , beginning sports skills, creative movement and dance and even ride on the zipline.

Silly Sally has also created several products and programs to help children become more physically active and encourage healthy, active lifestyles.  She is in the process of creating her latest CD, “Get Moving with Silly Sally” which should be released this fall.  Check out Silly Sally’s website for more information on how you can purchase a CD or video or have Silly Sally visit your school or community to help kids learn about staying fit and healthy.

• Silly Sally presented her program “Keeping your head above water” to the women of Luther Memorial Church in Des Moines on Saturday September 15th.  The group enjoyed lots of laughter and a short study on how joy is presented in the Bible.  Sally is a Certified Laughter Leader through the World Laughter Tour and is available to present programs to businesses, churches, schools and other adult groups.  For more information, check out her professional speaking website: smilepresentations.com