WESTERN PARTY

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Western Party

Wanted: Round up and gather your cowpokes for good grub and toe tapping tunes that will have you hollering "Yee-Hah!".

Give your boots a shine and ride into the sunset with these irresistible creative party theme ideas. Country Western party ideas, unique party favors, and great party game ideas will make your party a hit.

A Western Party is great for the whole family. Have your guest dress in their favorite western attire including cowboy boots and hats.

INVITATIONS:
• Send out picture of the guest of honor on "Wanted" posters to round up your guests.
• Use "Wanted" posters or Western paraphernalia to make fun invitations.
• On a red 3 x 5 card, inscribe party information as a poem. Coil rope around the edges and wrap in sheets of red and blue tissue paper. Place in large envelope.
• Address envelopes "Wanted" and seal with Western stickers.
• Make cowboy hats out of construction paper. Write party information on hat. Decorate with stars. • Use fabric markers to write party information on bandanas. • Send a music invitation with the music to Bonanza.

• For suggestions on what to write, view our Western Party invitations for ideas.

• For a really great time, have guests dress up as a famous Western figure or in their best Western gear.

• Wild Bill Hickok • Wyatt Earp • Kit Carson • Buffalo Bill Cody • John Stetson • Billy the Kid • Will Rogers • Jessie and Frank James • William G. Fargo • The Dalton Boys • The Cartwright Brothers • The Lone Ranger • Judge Roy Bean • Annie Oakley • Calamity Jane • Cisco Kid • Roy Rogers • Hopalong Cassidy

PARTY DECORATIONS
Party Decoration Supplies
• Use red gingham-checkered bandannas, napkins, and plates. • Keep cold drinks on ice in whiskey barrels and old metal tubs. • Serve drinks in clean tin cans or Mason jars. • Set up a life-size teepee. • Make a corral with hobby horses tied to hitching posts. • Hang old clothes or underwear from tree limbs. • Set cactus around the corral. • Spread straw all around the corral.

• Light and hang old lanterns. • Display old wash pans, jugs, and kitchen paraphernalia. • Hang personalized "Wanted Posters". Livestock sale posters are also fun. • Identify rest rooms as "Fillies", "Steers", or "Outhouse". • Display old mining tools by the gold mine. Fill a pot with cold coins. • Use a United States map to outline the Old Western trails.

PARTY FAVORS

• Bandanas • Gold nuggets in pouch • Gummy snakes • Harmonicas • Personalized wanted posters • Plastic canteens • Plastic cowboy horses • Plastic hand cuffs • Plush cowboy horses • Sheriff's badge • Squirt guns

MENU: A Bar-be-cue is ideal for a Western Theme Party. Cook up hamburgers, hotdogs, ribs, beef or chicken kabobs. Corn on the cob or shrimp skewers also are a treat. Other foods you may serve are:

• Coleslaw, Onion Rings, Dill Pickle Spears, Potato Salad, Macaroni Salad, Baked Beans, or Beef jerky. • Biscuits and Fresh or Dried Fruit. • For an added touch, pack picnic foods in a bandana. • Serve hot food in aluminum pie tins and drinks in tin cans like the old West.

• Party Drinks. • Party Appetizers. • Party Soups. • Party Salads. • Party Desserts.

Games and Activities. • Horseshoes • Hire a professional rope twirler • Live Ranch Animals, rent calves, lambs, goats, or ducks • Square Dancing • Pony Rides • Treasure Hunt or Stolen Loot • "Posse Hunt" • Hayrides • Candle Shoot • Pin the Tail on the Pony

MUSIC
• "Happy Trails to You". • "Home on the Range". • "Oh Suzannah". • "Clementine". • "Big Rock Candy Mountain".

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