Simple materials, found at home, can be turned into juggling instruments to start training some techniques. In this two-part series, Alfredo Muñoz teaches children how to build two of these instruments.
In the first video, he shows how to make juggling boxes (also called “cigar boxes”) out of milk cartons, paper and glue. In the second video, he explains how to use cardboard and wooden skewers to create a Chinese plate – the one that is balanced with a stick.

At the end of each lesson, he teaches some numbers. “There are lots of exercises, some quite complex, but here we start with simple things,” Muñoz explains. “When we talk about the boxes, for example, we begin on a table so that the student can do the movement little by little.”

Alfredo Muñoz is an acrobat, perchist and unicyclist. He is part of the fourth generation of circus artists and is a member of Arena Circus, a circus arts complex and cultural centre in the north of São Paulo, with activities for children, young people and adults.

Episodes available from 29th of August, at 3:00 pm