How to Have Cowboy Birthday Party
Cowboy Party cakes, menu, activities, favors and more
Cowboy up! Get out your Wild West action figures and let your imagination roll like
tumbleweed. Party partner, the little buckaroos are going to love the Cowboy Party
(or cowgirl party) you create with these decoration ideas to accent your theme:
Wild West Table Decorations Ideas
The vittles will look mighty tasty when you drape some Hessian cloth (a burlap sack
material) for the tablecloths. You can buy this for as low as $1.99 a yard at the
fabric store. Start by loosely draping Hessian cloth over the tables. For best effect,
crinkle the cloth. Next, get some tin plates or the enamel kind found at a camping
store for the table setting. Stack gold nugget coins with a small cowboy figure
standing guard at each setting. You may find a plastic play set complete with a
wagon, Tee pees, canoes, totem poles for and action figures for a good old fashioned
"cowboys and Indians" theme. While you can use them to decorate the birthday
cake, they look festive on the tables as well. Be sure to include some
Gold Mine gum for the older kids who chew gum.
Cowboy Games
The little cowpunchers at your Pony Party need some activities, and you can
steer the fun with these Cowboy Party ideas:
Cowboy party favor ideas:
Cowboy Party Activities
Play online cowboy games or other Horse games. Or just set your DVD to a continual
play of a rodeo video. The boys may especially appreciate the thrills of a bucking bull
rider or Rodeo bloopers.
Real Cowboy parties for kids...
Gather the kids around the campfire for tall tales of the wild West and bronco
busting. Get out a guitar and sing Country & Western Cowboy songs. Get more ideas
with these real cowboy parties to help you plan your party:
Cowboy Party cakes, menu, activities, favors and more
Cowboy up! Get out your Wild West action figures and let your imagination roll like
tumbleweed. Party partner, the little buckaroos are going to love the Cowboy Party
(or cowgirl party) you create with these decoration ideas to accent your theme:
- Cowboy props: Make a cowboy's wagon wheel from a hula hoop! Use cardboard
for the spokes. Or craft a home made hay bale from a cardboard box, and
shredded butcher paper among other fun cowboy prop ideas.
- Cowboy invitations: Brand your party invitations and thank you cards with the
Wyoming cowboy stamp. The adorable Cowboy invitations, right, are from
Dolce Mia and are available on Amazon. Or create your own cowboy invitations
using our cowboy party wording ideas.
- Cowboy favors: Cowboy and Indian party favors are not so easy to come by,
unless you search online, right. These cowboy favors have so many uses: top
them on cupcakes, put them on a cowboy cake or add them to the favor bags
or pinata. Look also for Cowboy party favors with horses. Looking for more
cowboy and Indian party favors? Search our big list of kids parties for a
Cowboy and Indians theme party filled with "Cowboy and Indian favor" ideas.
- Cowboy hats: Give that cowboy a party hat! We have lots of straw cowboy hats
or felt ones just for kids, as well as funny cowboy hat ideas.
- Cowboy cakes: Make a cowboy cake display: get out your Lincoln Logs and
make a centerpiece by including a log fence and fort around the birthday cake
or cupcakes. Add to the effect by adding a covered wagon or Wild West action
figures. See our other cowboy cake ideas.
- Create a fake cowboy campfire: Every cowboy or Indian brave settles in for a
cozy fire, but with little ones around you don't need to have the real deal. You
can build a stick "fire" by cutting construction paper into orange red and yellow
flames (orange and yellow cellophane also works well). Just build a fire boy
scout style and glue your "flames" strategically. If you're lucky enough to find
two "y" shaped sticks, you can drive them into the ground and insert a cross
stick and hang a pretend "bucket of stew" using a galvanized bucket.
- Get creative with cardboard. It's pretty easy to take two cardboard boxes to
create saloon doors for the party entrance. You can also create a cactus from
large cardboard box, paint it green and use red pompoms for the cactus
flowers, then plant it into a clay pot. Try making a Western town from bunch of
appliance cardboard boxes, too. Paint them to look like a Mercantile, a bank, a
jail, a saloon, livery stable and a hotel, then tape them together. Go to your
local Sears or moving and storage house for the appliance boxes.
- Cowboy favor bags. The little outlaws will love the cowboy favor bags you create
by sewing burlap sack (also known as Hessian cloth) and tying with Jute (string
that looks like straw). Decorate the bag by affixing a sheriff's badge or by
taking a marker and drawing a "$" symbol on the outside. Stuff it with a jaw
harp or harmonica. Do yourself a favor and visit Piece of Cake Party they've
done the work for you. (Pictured, right.)
Wild West Table Decorations Ideas
The vittles will look mighty tasty when you drape some Hessian cloth (a burlap sack
material) for the tablecloths. You can buy this for as low as $1.99 a yard at the
fabric store. Start by loosely draping Hessian cloth over the tables. For best effect,
crinkle the cloth. Next, get some tin plates or the enamel kind found at a camping
store for the table setting. Stack gold nugget coins with a small cowboy figure
standing guard at each setting. You may find a plastic play set complete with a
wagon, Tee pees, canoes, totem poles for and action figures for a good old fashioned
"cowboys and Indians" theme. While you can use them to decorate the birthday
cake, they look festive on the tables as well. Be sure to include some
Gold Mine gum for the older kids who chew gum.
- Decorate the burgers! If a barbecue is on the menu of your cowboy party,
search Amazon for barbecue branding irons. These fun irons give burgers and
steaks a personalized touch.
- Lasso up some licorice ropes: Make a display of cowboy action figures and of
Horse figurines tied with licorice lead ropes. The licorice looks like a Cowboy's
lariat. Gustaf's black licorice laces are a great choice (about $18.46 for a 1 lbs
bag or $7.99 for rainbow laces) on Amazon.
- More cowboy menu suggestions:
- Visit our site for more cowboy food ideas.
Cowboy Games
The little cowpunchers at your Pony Party need some activities, and you can
steer the fun with these Cowboy Party ideas:
- Cowboy shootout. Have a silly string shootout or a water gun fight. Just make
sure the little outlaws have a change of clothes. More ways to have a cowboy
shootout as an activity: shoot tin cans with water pistols. For a more appealing
look, spray-paint the cans silver, alternatively pink for a pink cowgirl party.
- Rattlesnake Egg Hunt. Dig up your Easter eggs and stuff them for a hunt.
Gather up the posse and advise the little ranch hands that there is a severe
rattlesnake problem and you need their help to rid the homestead of snakes.
- Play pass the rattlesnake. This game plays like "hot potato" but the little
outlaws and cowpokes pass a Rubber snake and get bitten whenmusic stops.
Choose country music of course. Download iTune, but register first to get cash
back on eBay.
- Three-legged Horse race. Divide guests into pairs. Tie a bandanna to the inside
leg and start the race with a cowbell. For older kids you can blindfold one and
have the other hold a sugar cube on a spoon. Or just have Western style fun
with a burlap sack race.
- Toss horse shoes. Horse around with the idea of good old fashioned fun of a
horse shoe toss. You can often find some safe plastic Horse shoe sets at the
sporting good store, toy store or dollar store. And don't forget Bobbing for
Apples as we all know horses love this treat.
- Lasso up a rocking Horse. Tie a rope to a Hula Hoop. Alternatively, find a smaller
hoop and lasso a large plush Horse.
- Have a Round Up: Use the birthday child's own Horse toys and "brand" them
with numbers and assign corresponding prizes. Tell the little cowpokes hat
some ponies have escaped from the corral and you need their help in the
round up. Watch the fun unfold as kids stampede for horses and exchange
them for prizes corresponding to the brands.
- Pan for gold cowboy style. Panning for gold is a fun and easy sandbox activity.
Just bury plastic gold coins or pennies and have kids sift through the sand with
pie pans that you punch to filter the sand. For shiny pennies, clean up them up
in a solution. Just 1/2 cup salt and 4 tablespoons vinegar does the trick. Award
Gold Miners gum to a lucky penny.
Cowboy party favor ideas:
- Cowboy Pinata Ideas: The ten gallon cowboy hat pinata, right, is ideal for a
cowboy party. Find assorted sweet creams in a bandanna motif wrapping on
eBay, or cowboy candies (tiny pastel colored tarts) at Oriental Trading. Affix
numbers to plastic horses and award cowboy prizes such as harmonica, a jaw
harp, Rubber snakes, or water guns or cap guns toys.
- More cowboy favor ideas: Round up some old fashioned sweets for at a novelty
candy store or on eBay. Try peppermint sticks, rock candy, nostalgic bubble
gum gold nuggets, licorice ropes and wheels, chocolate coins. Gold nugget gum
looked great in these favors with handcuffs and a sheriff badge in a mug.
Cowboy Party Activities
- Cowboy down by reading a cowboy story: To calm your little broncos after
sugaring up with cake, read a story before opening presents. Bronco Busters
by Alison Cragin Herzig copyright 1998 is a good one for a cowboy Party.
Another good one for the girls is any book from the Cowboy Kate series by
Betsy Lewin.
- Cowboy mustache. As a party favor, a cowboy mustache is fun, but you can
make a cowboy mustache inexpensively using an eyebrow pencil to decorate
party goers. Use ready made branding tattoos or rubber horse stamps. And
create Indian braves using colorful face paints. See also Moustache Parties for
wax mustache wax candies an more.
- Round up the toilet paper rolls. An ideal cowboy activity is to make a cowboy or
cowgirl from a roll of toilet paper:
- For the girls choose the cowgirl craft, which has an easy to use template.
- For the boys choose the cowboy craft.
- Finally, any horse crazy kid will have fun with the Horse craft.
Play online cowboy games or other Horse games. Or just set your DVD to a continual
play of a rodeo video. The boys may especially appreciate the thrills of a bucking bull
rider or Rodeo bloopers.
- Make a cowboy vest from a paper bag. Here's how to make a cowboy vest from a
paper bag:
- Open up a large brown paper bag.
- Put it upside-down like you're dumping the contents.
- Cut a hole at the top with room for the head. (Remember the bag is
upside-down) - Cut holes on each side with room for the arms.
- Cut the front to open the vest.
- Taper the neckline into a V shape.
- Cut fringe at the bottom of the upturned bag.
Real Cowboy parties for kids...
Gather the kids around the campfire for tall tales of the wild West and bronco
busting. Get out a guitar and sing Country & Western Cowboy songs. Get more ideas
with these real cowboy parties to help you plan your party:
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Other pony parties you may like: Pink Cowgirl party | Cowboy party| Western party |Saddle Club party | kids parties
(C) Copyright 2009-2011 by M.C. Nygard. All rights reserved.
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Other pony parties you may like: Pink Cowgirl party | Cowboy party| Western party |Saddle Club party | kids parties
This article is by M.C. Nygard,
right, a former eBay Platinum
Powerseller of party supplies. She
is a mother of two horse crazy
kids. Follow her on Twitter.
right, a former eBay Platinum
Powerseller of party supplies. She
is a mother of two horse crazy
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