Western Party Ideas To Create Rootin' Tootin Good Time For Western Adult Birthday Party

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Round up your friends and use some of our western birthday party ideas to help you bring the wild, wild west to your home on the range for a great adult birthday party.

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Giddy Up Cowboy Ensemble Kit




WESTERN PARTY IDEAS FOR INVITATIONS

To set the tone for your western party, be sure and send out a theme invitation. A few ideas are noted below to help get your creative juices flowing.

Be sure your invitations reflect the following information: Purpose of event: A western BBQ birthday celebration for (Name); Date and time, location, dress code, RSVP info, and any additional info you want your guests to know.

SHERIFF'S BADGE INVITATIONS - Buy some blank sheriff badges and have them engraved with the names of each of your guests (SHERIFF Name). Cut 8 1/2" x 11" aged looking scrapbook paper into 4 pieces. Type or handwrite party details. Hole-punch pages and attach to badge with twine. Mail or hand-deliver invitations.

WANTED POSTER INVITATIONS - Use 8 1/2" x 11" Wanted Poster scrapbook paper and type out all the party details. Mail or hand-deliver.

WESTERN-SHAPED INVITATIONS - Make invitations from card stock in the shape of a cowboy boot or hat, horseshoe, cactus, saddle, or any other western-shaped item. Write party details on one side, laminate, and mail or hand-deliver invitations.

BANDANA INVITATIONS - Write party details on bandanas with fabric pens. Mail or hand-deliver invitations.

COWBOY HAT INVITATIONS - Cut 8 1/2" x 11" aged looking scrapbook paper into 4 pieces. Type or handwrite party details. Hole-punch pages and attach to cowboy hat. Hand-deliver invitations.


WESTERN PARTY IDEAS FOR COSTUMES

Let your guests know that western party attire is required. Suggest they wear jeans, western shirts, cowboy hats, cowboy boots with spurs, western vest, bandana, gun belt, denim skirts, etc.

If you're looking for some western costume ideas, here's some Western Costumes to help inspire your cowboy/cowgirl creation.

For some more western costume ideas, check out our Western Costume photos and how-to tips.


WESTERN PARTY IDEAS FOR PARTY DECORATIONS

To ensure your western birthday party is authentic, turn your home into the Ponderosa using some of the following western party ideas:

• Your yard will shout, "The Party's Here" with a fun western themed archway.

• Cover tables with red and white checkered tablecloths and use bandanas as napkins.

• Cover your tables with burlap or a fun cow print or western print tablecloth, which will certainly help set the western astomosphere.

• Create table centerpieces by filling cowboy boots with silk or dried floral arrangements.

• Use plastic cowboy hats as table and wall decorations or fill them up with various chips and crackers.

• Keep your drinks cool while adding western party ambiance with a fun cactus cooler like the one pictured below.

• Fill coffee pots with daisies, wheat stalks, wildflowers, and sunflowers.

• Put small bunches of flowers in empty beer and root beer bottles to use as small accent centerpieces.

• Instantly transform your party room with some fun western scene setters like those pictured above.

• Create a personalized western birthday banner to hang on wall.

• Make wanted posters of party guests and hang on walls.

• Make or buy some western signs to put on your walls or near doorways to instruct guests to the location of the General Store, Out House,Livery Stable, Dodge City, Dead Man's Gulch, Death Valley, Blacksmith, Jail, Hitching Post, etc.

• Make or buy some cowboy ceiling danglers that have either pictures or small boots, cowboy hats, saddles, horses, etc. attached to pieces of rope or fishing line to hang from the ceiling.

• Use hay bales for chairs.

• Fill candy dishes with western party mints.

Comb the great outdoors and thrift shops, borrow, or rent any of the following western-related items to create a western atmosphere:

• Barbwire
  
• Benches
  
• Burlap sacks
  
• Bullwhips
  
• Cactus
  
• Cast iron pots & pans
  
• Covered wagon
  
• Cow bells
  
• Horse tack, halters, harnesses, etc.
  
• Horseshoes
  
• Lanterns
  
• Milking stools
  
• Pitchforks
  
• Rakes
  
• Rocking chairs
  
• Rope
  
• Saddles & saddlebags
  
• Shovels
  
• Stalks of wheat
  
• Steer skulls & horns
  
• Trunks & steamers
  
• Tumbleweeds
  
• Wagon wheels
  
• Washboards
  
• Washtubs
  
• Watering cans
  
• Weather vane
  
• Wild flowers

PRINTABLE GAMES - Here's a great site for some fun adult birthday party games to print and play. They are the perfect party game add-on!

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Here's an entire page with nothing but Western Party Games and Activities, such as:

• Horseshoes
• Western TV Trivia
• Mechanical Bull
• Western Dance
• Sack Races
• Squirt Gun Sharp Shooting

CHILI DOGS - BBQ hot dogs and buns and arrange on a serving tray. Mix together 15-oz. can of chili and 1/2 cup of salsa in a saucepan. Cook until heated through, stirring constantly. Serve chili on the side, along with bowls of chopped onions, mustard, ketchup, shredded Cheddar cheese, and corn chips.

BEANS - Make a crockpot or two of your favorite bean recipes.

CORN AND POTATOES - Wrap corn on the cob and baked potatoes in foil and cook over a BBQ. Create a potato bar with fillers like chopped green onions, chili, bacon bits, butter, sour cream, shredded cheese, etc.

SALAD - Either make a tossed salad or create a salad bar offering guests several options like tomatoes, cucumbers, carrots, celery, onions, chopped hard boiled eggs, avocado, peas, sprouts, bacon, etc.

CORNBREAD - Serve warm, homemade cornbread and honey butter.

MUNCHIES - Offer several different chips and mild to hot salsas, along with bowls of trail mix and nuts.

CHICKEN - Serve either BBQ chicken or fried chicken.

SAUSAGE - Grill various sausages and offer them with all the side fixins' noted in the chili dogs above.

ROOT BEER - Serve it up in tin cups or mason jars to keep the authenticity going.


WESTERN PARTY IDEAS FOR BIRTHDAY CAKES

WESTERN BIRTHDAY CAKE #1 - Make or purchase sheet cake and decorate it with a ranch scene. Fence edges with plastic fencing, add horses, barn, shrubs, and trees.

WESTERN BIRTHDAY CAKE #2 - Make or purchase sheet cake and frost it tan. Top with an edible sugar image of a western scene.

HORSE HEAD CAKE - Bake cake in shape of horse head or horseshoe, use brown frosting for head, cream frosting for mane, black icing for eyes, pink icing for inside of ears and nose. Use black licorice ropes for rein.

HORSESHOE CAKE - Bake cake in shape of horseshoe and decorate it with any combination of edible glitter, sprinkles, sparking sugar, nonpareils, or gel icing.

For some more fun western birthday cakes, check out our visitor-submitted WESTERN CAKES photos and how-to tips.


WESTERN PARTY IDEAS FOR FAVORS

Favors aren't necessary for an adult birthday party, but if you are looking for some western party ideas relating to giving your guests a small parting gift, you might consider filling a western glass with peanuts.

Western Party Ideas

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