Description:
Having a
Circus Themed Birthday Party for your child? Here are a few ideas for
invitations, games and decorations for a circus party.
Invitations and Printouts for a Cowboy Party:
- Personalized Cowboy Invitations
Professionally created, affordable invitations with your child’s party information. - Western Invitations
Free invitations that you can customize with you child’s birthday information. Use the Western themed invitation, or the plain invitation and punch holes where indicated, tie with a red & white check ribbon. - Thank you cards
Western theme, two options to choose from – fill in the blank or blank lines. - Napkin Rings
Print each guest's name with a birthday greeting.
Food, Drink and Dessert:
- For a fun change of pace, serve the food in pie tins.
- Hotdog Rollups
- Homemade Chicken Nuggets
- Scoop out a watermelon and fill with melon balls
- Cut up veggie tray with ranch dressing
- Cow Punch – chocolate milk
- Smores – traditional or microwave
- Trail Mix snack – serve in individual baggies or small plastic cups
- Cow Cake – frost cake white with brown spots
- Make or purchase a plain cake – use green frosting and decorate with plastic cowboys, Indians and horses.
Cowboy Party Decorations:
- Cowboy Theme Birthday Package contains all the paper products and decorations needed for a cowboy party.
- Happy Birthday Banner – Free banner to print and decorate.
- The guests themselves… Have everyone dress in blue jeans, plaid shirts. Then provide each guest with cowboy hat or red bandana as they arrive.
- Red and white checkered tablecloth.
- Cow Print balloons - can also be used for games and for children to take home after the party.
Activities for a Cowboy Party:
- Horseshoes – of course!
- Wanted – Backyard scavenger hunt.
- Cow Lasso – Use several clean large white milk ‘chug’ containers. With a black permanent marker, draw spots on the white chug containers to resemble cow spots. Fill the ‘cows’ with water or sand to help weigh them down, then replace the tops. Cut about 20″ of heavy rope for each lasso that is needed. Form a circle by securing the ends together with duct tape. Take turns tossing the rope over the ‘cows’.
- Pony race – use 2 pogo ponies or 2 brooms for a relay race.
- Find the missing Cowboys and Indians – hide plastic figures around the room. Whoever finds the most wins a prize. Everyone keeps what they find.
- Rattlesnake! – Fill a tube sock with newspaper and a small rattle. Use a rubber band to tie the end of the sock off. Play this game like Hot Potato, by having the children sit in a circle and passing the rattlesnake around while music is playing. When the music stops, the person holding the snake is out.
- Tin can shoot – Have children take turns using a squirt gun to try and shoot an empty soda can or soda bottle off a chair or table (play outside).
- Dream Catcher – for older children – From Crafts for Kids.
- Cow Tipping – Place one or two plastic milk jugs on a card table. Have each child try to knock over the jug with soft beanbags.
- Square Dance
Goodie Bags:
- Basket of Apples – Place several small treats in the center of a red square of fabric (about 15"x15") or a red bandana. Bring up two of the opposite corners and tie. Bring up the opposite corners and tie. Place all ‘apples’ into a large basket. The guests are invited to select an ‘apple’ on their way out.
- Cowboy hats, sheriff badges, toy harmonicas, licorice, squirt gun, bag of homemade trial mix.
