A Western Birthday Party for All Ages
Children grow out of the cutesy themes quickly, but a western birthday party theme is good for both little boys and girls of all ages. Everyone loves a good western, and even today there are plenty of shows and movies to watch.
When sourcing items from around the home your child’s western birthday party won’t have to be expensive.
Western Party Stationery
Party invitations are essential for a child’s party. Recipients can tack them onto their fridges or bulletin boards to remind them of an upcoming event, and they’re taken more seriously than invites sent through Facebook.
Ideas for your invitations can include a cowboy on horseback, and the wild desert filled with cacti, or a ghost town.
Western-Themed Outfits
Children should be encouraged to dress up. Little boys can wear vests, cowboy hats, blue jeans, and boots, while little girls can wear shawls, long skirts, hats, and parasols.
You can also set up a table filled with costume pieces if you feel it would be too difficult for parents to source out western party outfits. Additions to the table could include toy guns, long pearl necklaces, sheriff’s badges, hats, and moustaches. Spurs can easily be made from craft supplies.
Western Party Decor
Have a look through your basement or attic so you can decorate your party space. Consider temporarily moving out the modern furniture. Rocking chairs and other wooden chests are perfect. Utilize your grandmother’s crocheted doilies, lanterns, and old photo albums.
Best Party Favors for a Western Theme
Party favours can include water pistols, candy in the shape of reptiles, toy horses, and sheriff badges. Small items can be placed into cloth goodie bags which will appear more realistic than using cellophane or paper.
Western Party Activities
Party activities and games will keep the children occupied before and after their meal. Hide-and-go-seek would fit the theme perfectly. The sheriff who finds the most outlaws could win a prize.
Pin the tail on the donkey is also a popular game which works well with the theme. If you can find an old western TV show, set up your PVR for the kids to watch as they wind down from all the exciting activities of the party.
There are even businesses that rent-a-pony, and they’ll visit your home to give pony rides to the kids.
Delicious Party Food from the Old West
A cookout would fit in with the old wild west theme. Perhaps the main meal can be a BBQ cookout, with hotdogs, burgers, and ribs, then a large birthday cake served for dessert.
Small cupcakes and cookies could go along with the treats part of the birthday party. The party cake can be decorated with a cowboy theme, perhaps with horse or cows, and an old saloon or ghost town in the background.
How to Approach A Western Theme
There are many ideas that can be adapted to the party theme, but try to think the 1800s, and what people may have have done during these times.
