My son is turning 10 and he would like to have a cowboy/outlaw birthday party. I am on a very tight budget and was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for games, food ect.
-Pin the hat on the cowboy.
-Make WANTED signs, if you have a digital camera you could print pictures of each person and glue on a paper or have each person bring a picture of them selves or just have everyone draw pictures.
-Ropes to do a lasso contest
Food: baked beans and weenies, chili. If there is any way for you to have a bon fire cook the food on the fire. Travel to a camp site for the day to have the party!
hopefully some of this helps,
Stella
Have a scavenger hunt, using a brown paper bag. Cut out odd shapes for old looking maps. burn the edge of the paper to make it look cool. draw the map for the hunt..
Buy cheap bandanas, put different marking on them for a door prize, AFTER they use them for napkins.. watch them open their dirty hankies , looking for a star, boot, gun, horse, rope, wagon, pichfork or anything else you can think of. make them small on the bandans so they don't know it's there untill you tell them about the door prize!!! great fun. It is something they can keep as well.
You could get a rocking horse and have a rope made into a lasso. Have it where each boy/girl can stand at a certain distance and try their best to lasso the horse's head.
Serve food in aluminum pie tins, something like hot "dogies and campfire beans. Rustlers punch, cowboy hat shaped cake. Red and white checked picnic tablecloth, Have kids come dressed as cowboys, make a couple of "stick horses from old socks, stuffed and attached to broomstick, add button eyes and yarn mane and have relay races, barrel races, etc. You could even have the klids make their own stick horses, lay out supplies, make a sample and help as needed and then have a "horse show" with sherif badge prizes for funniest, most handsome, ugliest, most falling apart...
Kids can also "pan for gold" in a sandbox or pool. Simply use a gold spray paint on small gravel or rocks to create a gold nugget look.
Dee
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You can usually find plastic horse-shoe game sets at the dollar store and depending on budget, this is the perfect party to have pony rides.
HAVE YOU THOUGHT ABOUT MAKING YOUR OWN DECORATIONS. FIND IMAGES THAT YOU LIKE A USING PROJECTOR DRAW THEM LARGER OR FOR SMALLER THING USE YOU COMPUTER ON THE POSTER SETTING. HAVE A BBQ WITH HOT DOG AND OR HAMBURGER A FEE SIDES IF YOU WISH , CHIPS AND CAKE AND BE DONE. I FOUND A NEAT IDEA FOR FAVOR ON A WESITE GO SOME WHERE THAT HAS HORSES AND GET THE OLD HORSE SHOES AND GIVE THEM TO THE KIDS. JUST USE YOUR IMAGINATION AND YOUR SONS LET HIM HELP.
I have done a couple cowboy like parties a few things we did are I bought a bag of feathers at walmart for .96 and then took construction paper and half the kids made Indian headband the other half I got one yard of bandana cloth for 2.00 and cut it into strips and tied it around there neck and they played cowboys and Indian We had a bon fire and roasted hot dogs and marshmallows the other came we played was cow herd i blew up two bags of balloons up and the kids had the get them from one end of the yard to the other like the kids were herding cows hope that helps Rachel
Have the kids come dressed as good guys and bad guys (boys good guys & girls bad guys..since girls are princesses the rest of the year) and play games like lasso the cattle rustler or round-up you make up your own cowboy scanvenger hunt items. Make a cow, horse, wagon, or cactus hat or mask.
I need some ideas on a cowgirl themed birthday in April, my daughter will be turning 8 yrs old. She loves horses. So far I am ordering those boot shaped mugs, I am going to spend a little more and get the glassware. I wanted to try and do t-shirts with horses on them but I can't find cute ones for under $9 each and with like 15+ girls it could get a bit over the budget.
Hi I gave my son a cowboy party. He was 8. It helps set the theme if you can play some old slow cowboy music. A good game is a shoe horse throw. You can also spray paint small rocks gold either for extra decoration are you can hide them like Easter eggs & whoever find the most gets a prize. The rocks are of course gold nuggets. I ordered cowboy hats from oriental trading. Bandannas are good to tie up for goody bags. Walmart sales these little plaster horses, they can paint & take home. Laso's (ropes) & Cowboy boots make good decorations as do hay bales.
For my kids birthday (I have three in March) I got a off white shower curtain and painted a western theme on it and borrowed three bails of hay stacked them in front of the painted curtain and borrowed a rope and picked up some tulips at the grocery store and took pictures of each guest in front of the backdrop. After printing them I had my kids write a thank you note to each guest and we put there picture in it. they turned out really cute!
Why not use bandanas instead of t-shirts? You can get them in all colors for about a dollar each. Or purchase a package of undershirts, wash and dry them, and use a stencil to bring costs down, the girls could write their own names or could "brand" with a homemade stamp of a horse shoe or something like that.
Another fun and inexpensive game would be pin the tail on the pony. I like the idea of a horseshoe toss, too. Try calling a feed store to see if they have any empty horse feed sacks that you could use like posters (especially if there's a picture of a horse on them).
Sounds like alot of fun! Back several years ago, I was director of GA's at our church. This was for girls from 1st grade to 6th. I did a western theme. The tables were decorated with red and white and blue and white checked plastic tablecloths. The centerpieces were cowboy hats (borrowed) filled with silk sunflfowers. I ordered bandannas from Oriental Trading and each girl got one to put around her neck.
Thanks for all of the replies I appreciate it! Dee the cow pie! are hysterical!
For "nut cups" make small sacks out of tan -"rough"- looking fabric. Make them the size of your bag of treats, like M&M's or "Sweet & Salty" (I found a box of 40 or so at Sam's) plus 1/2" for the top. tie with raffia or a jute string. If you want to and have time get a stencil that says "FEED" and do the bags before you stuff them. These look like a bag of oats for the horses.
Don't try to A. use real burlap, it is too messy and the mess gets in YOUR clothes and is itchy. and B. Don't bother with turning the seam to the inside. Just serge or zig-zag the seams. This is great for a western theme party for any age "children".
P.S. I thought of something else. It might be fun to watch some of the old B&W western movies/serials too. Hop Along Cassidy, Roy Rodgers, etc. They had pretty good values and often had a real moral to the story. With ideas from some of the other folks here. We might even remember a GIRL western hero!
Any tips or ideas on games for a cowboy party for a 6 year old. The weather is probably not going to cooperate, so I want to plan indoor games and activities. I appreciate any ideas.
How 'bout a round-up scavenger hunt? Hide cowboy type items through the home (isn't there a cow tail candy?) and the winner gets a prize. What about a lasso contest, have the kids try to lasso a pet or stuffed animal.
I am working on the same thing for my four year old. I was thinking of cutting a wooden boot or cactus with holes for bean-bags. What do you think? You could do it in or out.
Here's some quick and easy ideas that me and my son (who is 6) play on rainy days when he's feeling frisky: 1 cowboy hat turned brim up on the ground and tape on the floor in three lines about 6 inches apart from each other in a line backwards, with 1 beanbag or hackysack becomes "Indoor Horseshoes". I bucket filled with dry beans and candy in the bottom becomes a "Frank and Beans" candy contest. I length of rope and a kids chair with a mop propped on it, or a hobby horse becomes "Lasso the Filly". We of course have "Cowboy Blues Tunes" which we sing karaoke to kids-type cowboy songs or kidz bop versions of the adult ones. Food is of course hotdogs on the grill, or our firepit, beans cook in a pan, corn on the cob and beer (Root that is). Then we tell stories around the firepit and make smores. Just some ideas for a mid-winter cowboy style roundup. Good luck and tell him I said Happy Birthday.
I had a Toy Story party for my son, so we combined space and cowboy themes. For a gift bag, I purchased cowboy hats (Oriental Trading) for about $1.00 each (Few years ago), and placed the gift bag in the upsidedown hat, so each boy received a hat when they left (or to wear at your party). Also we had wheelbarrel races. If you have a basement or other large room to race in, this would be a fun game. One person holds anothers feet, belly down, and steers the "wheelbarrel" around an obstacle course of chairs, cardboard cacti(or real potted plants) and anything else you can think of. To make it fair, each child was the "wheelbarrel" once and "cowboy" once. This also took care of SOME of their abundance of energy!! Enjoy and have fun!
