Cowboy Games
The little cowpunchers at your pony Party need some activities, and you can steer the
fun with these cowboy games:
Cowboy Party Activities
The little cowpunchers at your pony Party need some activities, and you can steer the
fun with these cowboy games:
- Have a silly string shootout or a water gun fight. Just make sure the little
outlaws have a change of clothes or you get silly with this game outside.
- 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 has been a
severe rattlesnake problem on your ranch and you need the little cowboys and
cowgirls to 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 when music 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.
- Horse-shoe toss. Horse around with the idea of good old fashioned fun. You
can often find some safe plastic Horse shoe sets at the sporting good store, toy
store or dollar store. The Rubber Horse Shoes by Schyllng, right are super
affordable and safe because they're made of rubber!
- Remember to set up a Bobbing for Apples game, as we all know horses love
this treat.
- Have the kids lasso up a rocking Horse. Tie a rope to a Hula Hoop.
Alternatively, find a smaller hoop and lasso a large plush Horse.
- Shoot tin cans with water pistols. For a more appealing look, spray-paint the
cans silver, alternatively pink for a pink cowgirl party.
- The 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.
- 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.
- Pinata ideas: Find assorted sweet creams in a bandanna motif wrapping on
eBay, or cowboy candies (tiny pastel colored tarts) at Oriental Trading and get
cash back. Award a harmonica, a jaw harp, Rubber snakes, or cap guns for
prizes.
Cowboy Party Activities
- Cowboy Down: 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.
- Make a cowboy mustache 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. Here are are sorts of fun cowboy mustaches
you can buy online:
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Make a cowboy or cowgirl from a roll of toilet paper: Start saving used rolls now.
For the girls, choose the cowgirl craft, which has an easy to use template. For the
boys, try the cowboy craft. Finally, any horse crazy kid will love this Horse craft.
More cowboy food ideas...
For the girls, choose the cowgirl craft, which has an easy to use template. For the
boys, try the cowboy craft. Finally, any horse crazy kid will love this 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.
- Cowboy Craft idea: 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.
- Cowboy Food Ideas. When it comes to food for a cowboy part, forget the
beans, most kids won't like them. Keep cowboy party food simple. Wrangle
up burgers and dogs to keep the little cowpokes happy. You can get creative
with food in other ways, such as branding the burgers. Search Amazon for
barbecue branding irons. These fun irons give burgers and steaks a
personalized touch. The adults at your party may enjoy: Paula Deen's
cowboy Party food, or Emeril's Lagasse's cowboy coffee. Another fun idea is
to stuff the chips or other "feed" (party snacks) into feedbags (burlap sacks).
More cowboy food ideas...
Cowboy and Cowgirl party
How to have a classic cowboy party for kids
Cowboy up! Giddyup! Learn how to have a classic cowboy party for your little
cowpuncher or bucking bronco. This is a birthday party that even the adults can get
into by dressing for the party in their Western duds. The food is easy for kids:
hamburgers, and for the cake you can do a horse, a stagecoach, a cowboy hat, a
cowboy boot or a ranch scene with horses. Below you'll find, cowboy cake ideas,
cowboy game ideas and more to help you make this day memorable.
The best part about a cowboy party, boys can take on the role of classic characters
like Buffalo Bill, Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone or Roy Rogers, and the girls can be
Annie Oakley or dress up as rodeo queens or pretty pink cowgirls. Boys and girls alike
will have fun wearing a fake cowboy mustache. (See lower on this page.)
Cowboy party favors
Shopping for a cowboy party for kids is relatively easy, though surprisingly they may
not have what you need at the local party supply store. You can provide inexpensive
cowboy hats for the kids or simply bandannas and sheriff's badge by shopping online.
Your cowboy party can have a classic cowboy and Indians party, too, though
shopping for these retro cute items is even harder.
Cowboy favors
Even if you give the kids a cowboy hat at the party (or a bandanna or a sheriff's
badge), trust us that they will come to expect a favor at the end of the party. Your
favor bag can contain a water gun, a horse figurine, a rubber snake, and a
harmonica. For candy you can choose, gold nugget gum, chocolate coins, or butter-
mints with a Western motif. Wilton candy molds can help you create chocolates or
suckers in the shapes of horse heads, cowboy hats or cowboy boots. You'll also find a
variety of mustaches and tattoos. Try making a chocolate mustache on a stick. If you
can sew or find a burlap sack and turn it a money bag, even better! The little outlaws
will love their loot bags. Or give the kids just one nice thing, such as a Jaw harp to
give that twangy down home feeling.
Cowboy cakes
Sure, you could do cowboy hat cake, or a cowboy boot cake, but for an unusual idea
to meet the cowboy theme, try a Stagecoach cake. Pictured left, the Westward bound
cake by Wilton looks just like the famous Wells Fargo stagecoach. And of course a
horse theme cake is always a fun way to roundup the cowboys for cake.
Ideas for invitations
See our pony party invitation page to learn how to design your own invitations.
Depending on whether your cowboy party is more of a Country Western hoedown, or
a Wild West theme, your cowboy party invitations can have several options for the
wording:
Cowboy party invitations:
How to have a classic cowboy party for kids
Cowboy up! Giddyup! Learn how to have a classic cowboy party for your little
cowpuncher or bucking bronco. This is a birthday party that even the adults can get
into by dressing for the party in their Western duds. The food is easy for kids:
hamburgers, and for the cake you can do a horse, a stagecoach, a cowboy hat, a
cowboy boot or a ranch scene with horses. Below you'll find, cowboy cake ideas,
cowboy game ideas and more to help you make this day memorable.
The best part about a cowboy party, boys can take on the role of classic characters
like Buffalo Bill, Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone or Roy Rogers, and the girls can be
Annie Oakley or dress up as rodeo queens or pretty pink cowgirls. Boys and girls alike
will have fun wearing a fake cowboy mustache. (See lower on this page.)
Cowboy party favors
Shopping for a cowboy party for kids is relatively easy, though surprisingly they may
not have what you need at the local party supply store. You can provide inexpensive
cowboy hats for the kids or simply bandannas and sheriff's badge by shopping online.
Your cowboy party can have a classic cowboy and Indians party, too, though
shopping for these retro cute items is even harder.
Cowboy favors
Even if you give the kids a cowboy hat at the party (or a bandanna or a sheriff's
badge), trust us that they will come to expect a favor at the end of the party. Your
favor bag can contain a water gun, a horse figurine, a rubber snake, and a
harmonica. For candy you can choose, gold nugget gum, chocolate coins, or butter-
mints with a Western motif. Wilton candy molds can help you create chocolates or
suckers in the shapes of horse heads, cowboy hats or cowboy boots. You'll also find a
variety of mustaches and tattoos. Try making a chocolate mustache on a stick. If you
can sew or find a burlap sack and turn it a money bag, even better! The little outlaws
will love their loot bags. Or give the kids just one nice thing, such as a Jaw harp to
give that twangy down home feeling.
Cowboy cakes
Sure, you could do cowboy hat cake, or a cowboy boot cake, but for an unusual idea
to meet the cowboy theme, try a Stagecoach cake. Pictured left, the Westward bound
cake by Wilton looks just like the famous Wells Fargo stagecoach. And of course a
horse theme cake is always a fun way to roundup the cowboys for cake.
Ideas for invitations
See our pony party invitation page to learn how to design your own invitations.
Depending on whether your cowboy party is more of a Country Western hoedown, or
a Wild West theme, your cowboy party invitations can have several options for the
wording:
Cowboy party invitations:
- Kick up your Heels for Birthday Blakes Bash!
- Come on over Y'all on Saturday August 22, at noon
- Mosey on over to the O.K. Corral: 123 main street
- RSVP: Buffalo Bill or Annie Oakley at 867-5309
- Cowboy Billy is turning five
- Bring the little Outlaws over Saturday August 22, at noon
- Smith Ranch: 123 main street
- RSVP: Sheriff Sandy or Deputy Dean at 867-5309
