Cut two dozen 18 by 18-inch strips from different colorful fabrics. Hem all around. Tie them together to make a 36-foot strip. Leave one square untied.
Lay fabric squares flat on top of each other, folded like a fan. Put pile in clown pocket with one end sticking out. Put the single in the other pocket.
Pull out ten squares, showing amazement. Drop the fabric rope and let it drag behind you. Trip on it, stop and pull out another ten. Mime astonishment.
Repeat until you get to the end. Show relief.
Do a double take when you see the single fabric end in your other pocket. Mime fear and refuse to pull it out.
Pour a half cup of rice into an empty bottle. Blow up a round balloon to grapefruit size. Stretch the neck and put it over the bottle opening.
Invert the bottle and pour the rice into the balloon. Remove the balloon and let it deflate. Trim the neck close to the body of the balloon. The rice will stay in the balloon.
Blow up another balloon and fit it over the first, covering the hole.
Cut the neck and a 2-inch piece of the top from a balloon of a different color. Stretch it over your juggling ball to make a contrasting stripe.
Cut holes in a contrasting balloon by pinching a piece between your fingers and snipping off the tip. Stretch it over the juggling ball to make circles.
Make a juggling ball in black twice as big. Mime that it is a heavy bowling ball or a bomb.
Draw an oval the width of a sock and twice as long. Cut it out of cardboard for the mouthpiece.
Fold in half. Push into the sock so curved ends face the toe. Put your hand in the sock with your wrist bent and fingers on top and bottom of the mouthpiece.
Chalk a straight line one-half inch past the mouthpiece. Cut the sock on the line. Remove your hand.
Flatten the sock with the heel on top and mouth closed. Cut the sock fabric around the mouthpiece, leaving a half-inch edge. Unfold the top of the cardboard so the mouth is open.
Put a drop of glue on the bottom edge in the middle of the mouthpiece. Pull the sock fabric over the edge. Press it against the glue until set. Repeat at the top of the mouth.
Attach the fabric to the mouthpiece around the edge. Work in small sections to make sure the glue is firmly attached.
Cut a mouthpiece slightly larger than the cardboard out of felt. Cover the cardboard with it. Attach with glue.
Stuff sock with paper to give it shape. Add a tongue, teeth, googly eyes, yarn eyebrows, a button nose and clothes to finish your gag puppet prop.