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Party Planning -
Kid's Party Ideas - Kid's
Western Party
Chuckwagon Party Ideas
Have your chuck wagon party in
the wide-open spaces of your backyard, with all the Western
atmosphere you can muster.
Start by creating your a "Go
West" Invitations.
To give your invitations a "Go West" appeal, glue brown
wrapping paper onto card stock. Cut out a wagon like that
sketched on this page. From plain cardstock, cut out a
wheel. glue to wagon. Punch a hole, run yarn through the
hole, tie it in place. On the wagon, write party details.
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Oh
say, Davy Crockett
and say, Daniel Boone
There's a chuck wagon party
for Tim Conner's Birthday
A comin' up soon.
DATE:
at Dry Gulch Ranch
ADDRESS:
RSVP: |
Setting the Mood:
For seats, use empty nail kegs (from a hardware supply
store) top each with a brown cushion; or use straw bales.
| Draw brands on
colored paper and tack them up on trees, on a fence,
etc. |
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The Chuck Wagon
The Chuck Wagon will be the
table for your food and beverages. Lay long planks or
plywood across two sawhorses. For canopy at the end of the
wagon, secure 3 heavy wires or hoops, about 1 foot apart,
over planks and cover with burlap. Cut out 4 wheels from
cardboard; attach them to sawhorses. Use large corks for
hubs.
On planks arrange, for
help-yourself service, a pile of tin pie plates, tin salt
and pepper shakers, inexpensive forks, knives and spoons.
Hang tin cups along the sides
of the planks.
For napkins use
Red Bandanas.
Fill a ketchup bottle with
field flowers. Red lanterns provide light.
More
Western Decorating Ideas
Old West Favors
Provide each cowboy and
cowgirl with a
Bandana,
Child Size Cowboy Hat and a
Sheriff Badge.
Western Games
Steer-Ropin' Contest
Props: On a piece of plywood or scrap lumber, paint head of
a long-horned steer. Into horns pound several spikes. Get
ready a rope lasso.
Partytime: Each contestant has 3 tries to rope the steer.
The Chase
Props: This is an obstacle race. Before the party, print the
8 signs below; set them up around yard as indicated in
parentheses. Each Sign represents a certain spot in yard,
and tells players what to do:
Phantom Corral............"Start Here" (at the starting
line)
Hangman's Tree..........."Run Around Tree" (a tree or pole
in ground).
Water Hole ................."Take a Drink" (pail of water,
cups)
Ambush Tunnel ..........."Creawl Through" (3 overturned
chairs)
Shady Canyon ............"Take Nap" (any shady spot)
Sheer Cliff .................."Turn Somersault" (sand pile)
Snake Lake ................"Jump Across" (small tub of
water)
Desperado Hideaway...."Get in and Roll" (barrel open at
ends)
Partytime: Divide guests into 2 teams- Good Guys and Bad
Guys. At a signal, first player on each team races through
obstacle course and back to starting line, where he touches
next player, who then does the same, etc.
Ranch-Life Quiz
Props: Prepare a list of questions about cowboys and ranch
life, a different question for each guest. Here are some
samples:
Q: What is a chuck wagon?
A: The wagon from which cowboys have their meals when out on
the range/
Q: What is a ten-gallon hat?
A: A wide-brimmed cowboy hat.
Q: How do cattlemen identify their cattle?
A: By the brands.
Q: What was the name of Roy Rogers' horse?
A: Trigger
Q: What used to be the penalty for stealing a horse?
A: Hanging
Q: Name 3 states where you'll find many cowboys.
A: Texas, Arizona, Nevada
More Western Games
Chow
Cook "chow" outdoors --over an open fire or on the grill. Or
cook indoors and serve outdoors.
Doggies in Toasted Buns (he-man hot dogs or hamburgers)
Little Tex Sauce (heated catchup)
Buckaroo Beans (recipe below)
Carrot Sticks
Wagon Wheel Ice Cream (directions below)
Horseshoe Cake (recipe below)
Cocoa, Cowpuncher Style
Buckaroo Beans
1. Cook 1 pkg. frozen corn. Cook 2 pkg. frozen, or 1 lb.
fresh, green beans; or heat 2 cans green beans. Also heat 1
- 1 lb. can baked beans with 1 1/2 teaspoon seasoned salt, 3
tablespoons butter, 1/2 teaspoon Worcestershire, 1/8
teaspoon monosodium glutamate.
2. Toss baked beans with drained cooked corn and green
beans.
Makes 6 servings
Wagon Wheel Ice Cream
Use 1 round 1/2 gal. carton of coffee or vanilla ice cream.
Lay paper stencil of wagon wheel, cut to fit top of
ice-cream carton on ice cream. Sift cocoa over stencil,
carefully lift off stencil. Serve ice cream right from
carton with scoop or spoon.
Horseshoe Cake
Bake cakes a day or so ahead; store, covered. Or bake cakes
a week ahead; freezer-wrap; freeze.
Ingredients:
2 pkg. of favorite cake mix
2 pkg. or cans of favorite frosting
2- 9 inch round cake pans
1- 10" x 6" x 2" oblong cake pan or purchase a horseshoe
shaped pan from a craft store.
cowboy & Indian figures
birthday candles
1. Prepare and bake 1 pkg. favorite cake mix as label
directs, making 2 - 9-inch round layers. Cool as directed.
2. Start heating oven to 350 degrees F. Grease well a 10" x
6" x 2" pan. Prepare second package of cake mix as label
directs; turn into pan. Bake about 35 minutes, or until cake
tester, inserted in center, comes out clean. Cool as
directed.
3. The evening before the party, from center of 1 - 9" round
layer, cut, remove and reserve 3-inch circle. Then cut layer
in half and place one half on top of the other with
frosting, as filling. (Save second layer for a later
dessert).
4. Place a 14-inch x 12-inch cake board or foil-covered
cardboard so short end faces you. On it set filled layer,
rounded side at end of board away from you. Set oblong cake
on board, long side against cut sides of layers. Glue with
frosting.
5. Starting at ends of inner arc of layer, with knife, cut
down through oblong cake to form horseshoe shape. Remove
center piece of cake from oblong for a later dessert.
6. Now, where inner arc of layer joins oblong cake, whittle
off some cake to widen arc. Also, whittle cake into
horseshoe shape 2" up from both ends.
7. Cut reserved 3" circle of cake in half vertically. Set on
half on top of other, with frosting between; halve
vertically. With frosting, glue straight cut side of each
half to outside of each end of horseshoe forming straight
line to bottom.
8. Use frosting, to frost cake, keeping horseshoe shape.
Refrigerate.
9. Day of party, set cowboy & Indian figures, and candles on
and around cake.
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