Plums the Clown

Person dressed as a clown with special red heart-shaped glasses, red clown nose, and white face makeup, wearing a pink hat with a clown face, against a purple background.

Balloon sculpture of Sesame Street's Elmo holding a white heart-shaped balloon with the word 'Plums' written on it.

Clowning around Somerville, Cambridge, Boston and beyond

See Plums' Services

a girl with her face painted with a heart, rainbow, and flower

A photo of Plums, a clown, looking at a little chameleon wearing a party hat perched on her shoulder

Balloon Animals

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Balloon Animals ☻

Face Painting

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Face Painting ☻

Clowning Around

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Clowning Around ☻

Would you like to have Plums at your birthday party, community event, corporate event, festival, market, (you name it)?!

Balloon Animals! Face Painting! Fun and Games! Story Time!

Colorful balloon sculpture of a blue flower with purple blooms and green stem, held in front of a brick wall.

Balloon sculpture of a cartoon ghost with wide eyes and an open mouth, holding its hands together.

Child with colorful face paint of a unicorn, rainbows, and stars.

Balloon sculpture of a blue unicorn with pink mane and horn

Child with face painted with pink roses and green leaves on her cheek and around her eye

Colorful balloon sculpture of a turkey with large black and white eyes, a yellow beak, and red, yellow, black, and orange balloons forming the body, limbs and feathers.

Child with face painted to resemble a colorful creature, with a drawing of a blue cat with a purple horn on her cheek (the Mermaid cat from Gabby's Dollhouse)

Colorful balloon characters resembling cartoon creatures with drawn faces, arranged in a circle.

Please get in touch for rates. Most private parties start at $200.

For any occasion, I can come in full, lite, or no clown costuming ☻

Other ways to reach out:
email: plumstheclown@gmail.com
call / text: (617) 468-6383
Instagram: @plumstheclown

The art of clowning (a Magritte-inspired self portrait)

Sandwich fair: snacks, slogan tees, and Shriners

Clowning featured in today’s @nytimes! While Plums is a more traditional party clown, she came from creative exploration inspired by the modern clowning classes I started (and am still) taking this year ☺️

What do you call a unicorn balloon animal that’s been in a sunny window too long because you forgot to take it down after trying to take a nice picture of it there because your house only gets good light in one area and you want to make a joke

Practicing with some neons 🦕

#balloontwisting

Saw One Battle After Another on Friday, Gabby’s Dollhouse on Saturday. The duality of clown.

#facepainting

About Plums

Plums the Clown is also known as Angie Meltsner. In 2025, Angie started taking modern clowning classes while working through The Artist’s Way. She realized she could (and should!) live a life more full of play, joy, and laughter, and could (and should!) share in that with her local community. Thus, Plums was born. Along with continuing her clowning education, she is working on juggling and magic tricks to help Plums become even more of a delightful entertainer!

When she’s not Plums, Angie runs her own consumer insights and trends research business. She is originally from Michigan but has been in the Boston area since 2010. She is lucky to have a live-in clown assistant and face paint model (her daughter!) to remind her to find the fun and games in every moment of every day.

As Plums, Angie is fully insured and CORI’ed (background checked). She uses only high quality paints specifically for face painting and high quality latex balloons specifically for balloon twisting. She is a member of the World Clown Association and Clowns of America International.