| Planning a birthday party for your son or daughter | | | | day of the party. Keep some glue and glitter |
| can be very exciting. It is a great way to explore | | | | along with yellow badges. Brown paper bags can |
| your creative talent and enjoy the process. First | | | | be used to make vests for the children to play. |
| of all, you need to pick a good theme which | | | | Kids love to take an active interest in the party |
| engages the attention of all kid's friends. There is | | | | and this is a great way to keep them involved. |
| no dearth of themes. Try the cowboy theme for | | | | As for the decorations, you need to get straw or |
| you son's birthday party and watch every one | | | | hay bales to use as seats, cowboy six shooters, |
| talk about it for years to come. | | | | stirrups, wanted posters, lanterns, wagon wheels |
| You can begin by sending out invitations which | | | | etc. You could check your local costume party |
| give the invitees a clear idea of the theme. An | | | | shops or the internet for more ideas. Giving out |
| invitation attached to the string or bowl of the | | | | party favors is another idea you could put into |
| cowboy hat would arouse everyone's desire to | | | | effect. Engrave the names of your guests on the |
| attend the party. The hat could be used even | | | | sheriff badges and hand it out to the invitees |
| later. Similarly you could print or write invitations | | | | when they arrive, to make them feel special. You |
| and send them on the bandana, which again | | | | could give away spurs which would be a great |
| comes in very handy during the hot summer | | | | way to keep the memory of the birthday party |
| months. You could buy or make canvas bags and | | | | alive. |
| print the invitation on one side. Then fill the bags | | | | Having a few cowboy activities is what will make |
| with chocolate gold coins and pennies to give it | | | | the party come alive. So fix a five or six feet |
| the effect of a real cowboy bag, and send out | | | | pole securely into the ground and then fasten a |
| the invites. You could make invitation cut out of | | | | steer skull on it or any other thing with horns to |
| cardboard in the shape of a cowboy hat or the | | | | resemble a bull and a lariat for roping the bull. A |
| sheriff's badge, stating the name of the party, | | | | horse shoe toss would work just as well. All you |
| the date, time and venue, the dress code, | | | | need is a stake fixed to the ground and a horse |
| contact number and any other information you | | | | shoe to throw. There could be a barn dance just |
| deem fit. | | | | like in the good old days with barbecue, beans, |
| Just before the day of the party you could make | | | | salad, county stew and fried fish and chicken with |
| cut - outs for the badges and hats, so that the | | | | ginger ale or wine to feed on. |
| kids can make their own badges to wear on the | | | | |