They can race one-against-one or split up into teams and race relay-style. To make a pool noodle horse, fold the top end of the noodle over and secure it with twine. Decorate with googly-eyes and a mane made out of fabric, craft foam, or yarn. Fill your play area with balloons. Then set the cowpokes loose on a balloon-popping stampede. Fill the balloons with prizes such as cowboy stickers and temporary tattoos before inflating.
Once the stampede is over, kids can go back and collect the prizes. This cowboy party activity requires a little bit of advance preparation. When you send out your Western party invitations, include a note that asks parents to email you a photo of their child. Or, you can take pictures of guests as they arrive and print them in time for the activity.
Leave enough room below the image for the kids to complete the poster themselves. Write one Old West nickname per party guest on a small sheet of paper. Some suggestions:. Fold up the cowboy nicknames and place them in a cowboy hat.
In a second cowboy hat, place papers on which you have written bad deeds. You can use a combination of traditional Wild West crimes like bank robbery and train hijacking with silly crimes such as stalling at bedtime or burying vegetables under a napkin. Have party guests sit around a table with their wanted posters, some crayons, markers, cowboy stickers, and any decorative supplies you wish. Pass around the cowboy hats and have each child select a paper from each hat.
Then have them complete their posters with their cowboy nicknames and the crimes for which they are wanted. Coal Eyes Matthew.
For: Feeding his homework to the dog. Hang the wanted posters around the party area until the end of the event. Then send them home as party favors. Gather your party guests for some Old West lasso tossing. Because real lassos can be dangerous, you should consider using a hula hoop or rope rings instead. Place a rocking horse or sawhorse at a fair distance from the line where players will stand. To play this game, set up cowboy boots on a table.
Draw a line a few feet away from the table. Have players stand behind the line and toss beanbags at the boots. Award prizes to players who can knock over a boot. If you have a seesaw, attach a saddle to each end. Place a child on each saddle and have two adults guide the seesaw up and down. Another way to give rodeo rides is to secure a saddle to a red wagon, bicycle, or another suitable ride on toy. Have an adult pull the rider around a rodeo ring or obstacle course.
This game is fun for any cowboy-themed party, but it might also be especially enjoyable for a Toy Story party. Divide players into two teams. Give each team a cowboy boot. At the other end of the play space, place two buckets filled with rubber snakes.
On the signal, the first players for each team race to retrieve a snake, bring it back and place it in the boot. Those players then tag the next players in line, who also race to place a snake in their boots. The relay race continues until one team has had each of its members collect a snake and drop it into the boot. Have kids stand a couple of feet from the tin cans. Give each player a squirt gun and a bucket of water for refilling. When you signal the start of the game, kids squirt water at the cans, attempting to knock them down.
When a player knocks over his can, he gets to claim a reward from a collection of trinket prizes. Before the party, have your kids paint a collection of rocks. Mix the painted rocks with plain rocks and put them all into a baby pool filled with water. Give kids sieves and have them mine for the gems. You can also play this game in a sandbox.
Bury gold-painted rocks or gold nuggets in the sand and have them panhandle for the gold. Pin the Tail on the Donkey is a classic party game that is often changed to suit the theme of a party. In this cowboy version, instead of pinning a tail on a donkey, kids stamp a brand on a cow. Hang up a poster of a cow. Cut a large sponge into the shape of a horseshoe and attach it to a stick. Kids can engage in "barrel racing" by maneuvering their bikes in a cloverleaf pattern around three cones or plastic bottles, making complete turns around each "barrel.
The rider with the most points wins. With several cowboy hats or boots five to 10 feet away, kids try tossing beanbags or rubber snakes into the hat or boot directly across from them.
The child with the most beanbags or snakes in his hat or boot wins. Kids try holding steady on their "bronco" bicycle in this game. A leader draws a chalked circular course of hills and valleys, if possible, and tight turns. With the leader timing each rider, kids follow the course and keep their feet on their bike pedals as long as possible. The rider who manages to do so the longest without falling wins. On their bikes, kids follow a chalked course and halt upon reaching a stool placed along the course.
They set their feet on the ground, pick up a hula hoop and toss it over the stool before proceeding to the finish line. If kids miss the target, they retrieve the hoop and try again. The rider reaching the finish line in the fastest time wins. As a variation, kids can race on two parallel chalked courses.
Kids prepare to round up "cattle" by dividing into two teams and taking one "horse" broomstick per team. With a balloon "steer" in front of them on the ground, kids maneuver the balloon through a course while on their "horses. The team that completes the relay first wins. Along a bike riding course, kids come to a halt upon reaching three empty soda bottles on a box, each bottle containing a pingpong ball on its mouth.
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