Ideas for a cowboy party for an 8 year old boy?

Question

Any ideas? The most creative wins!

Answer 1

Watch that one episode of REBA.

Answer 2

8 is a very very young age so maybe you could have dora or superman or something 8 year old children like

Answer 3

Maybe buy some of those hourse tiongs and let them ride round outside with them on..also play pin the hat on the cowboy. I hope this helped.

-Tara

Answer 4

Western Cowboy Birthday Decorations:

A basic red and white checkered table cloth cover the table.

Make a centerpiece with a balloon bouquet tied to a toy horse.  

If possible, give a real horseshoe to every child, attach a balloon to each one and place at their table setting. Hang streamers, western stencils and ropes. Hay, saddles and horseshoes add authenticity to the decor.

Place the saddle over a bail of hay so that the children can ride an imaginary horse. Don't forget the western music!

Upon arrival, present your little cow-pokes with a cowboy hat

and bandana to wear during the party.

Tin can shoot played with empty pop bottles and a squirt gun.

  Place three cans on a bench and take turns with the water gun.

pin the badge on the sheriff

Have a rope tying contest

Boot Toss - use large cowboy boots and bean bags. The children will try

  to toss the bean bags into the boots. Or, use a large cowboy hat.

Answer 5

All the kids can dress up like cowboys. If it's not expensive, then they can ride horses. Take them to a ranch nearby. Then they can eat chips, hotdogs, and beans.

Answer 6

Western party games for little kids

Cowboy relay

Gather together two baskets containing the same cowboy clothes and accessories - big boots, baggy trousers, a waistcoat, Stetson or bandana, and a sheriff's badge.

Divide your guests into two teams. The first child in each team runs up to their basket, puts the clothes on, and runs back to their group - then back to the basket, takes off the clothes and runs back again. Then it's the next child's turn. Have a "practice" round first of all so that everybody understands what to do. The first team to finish are the winners!

Bean can shootout

Make some "Beans" labels and stick them on some empty tin cans. (Make sure the tops aren't sharp - cover the tops carefully with tape if necessary.) Arrange them on a stand or a covered table.

In this western party game, the kids use bean bags to try and knock over the cans. Each child has a turn. You could use four cans with four bean bags. The winners are those who hit the most cans over! Your guests will probably want a couple of turns at this.

Campfire songs

Cut out a large circle of construction paper or cardboard. Scrumple up pieces of newspaper, stick them together into a pile on top of the paper, and then paint them roughly with red, orange and brown. Add a few twigs around the edges and you have camp fire!

Choose a selection of your kids' favorite songs and have a sing-a-long. Even if the songs don't have a western theme, you can add a few yeehas to the words!

Then get the kids playing musical statues as they dance around the "fire" - play some country dance music or Indian campfire songs!

To add to the atmosphere, you can darken the room and shine a flashlight on the fire - or let the kids use flashlights themselves.

Rattlesnake round

Similar to the popular Hot Potato game. Add some imaginary danger to your western party games! The kids sit in a circle and pass a plastic snake around as the music

plays. The child holding the snake when the music stops is out. The winner is the last child left!

Pin the badge on the sheriff

Your kid will love helping you prepare for this western party game. Make a "kid-sized" version of a sheriff by drawing round your child's shape on a large piece of construction paper or cardboard. Pop a hat on top - or do a cut-out version, and decorate your sheriff together in advance of the party. Prepare a stick-on sheriff's badge, too.

X marks the spot where the badge has to go. Blindfold each child, twirl them around and gently push them in the right direction. The child who gets the badge nearest to the X is the winner!

THE HIT OF THE PARTY:

Watch out--in cowboy country, you can't turn your horse in a circle without running across a rattlesnake. In Sidewinder Jump--a game the kids all loved--guests have to avoid the "bite" of a deadly rattler. Make your snake out of an 8-foot length of rope. At one end, glue a piece of thick cardboard cut and painted to resemble a rattlesnake's diamond-patterned head. On the other end, create a rattle by filling a few film canisters with a teaspoon of dried beans or rice. Punch a hole in the top of each canister and poke a pipe cleaner through, balling up the end beneath the cap to keep it from slipping out. Glue or tape the canister shut. To play, have adults or kids hold each end of the rattlesnake rope and whisk it back and forth along the ground. Children try to jump over the wriggling snake without touching it. For older kids, try raising the rope a few inches off the ground.

DECOR:

No self-respecting cowpoke is gonna come within a mile of fancy crepe paper, so instead Carrie decorated with ropes, bandannas and pictures of guests made into "Wanted" posters.

FUN & GAMES:

•Dude 'em up. As guests arrive, present each one with a plastic cowboy hat, a bandanna and a grocery-bag vest. To make one, cut up the center front of the bag, then round out the neck hole and cut circles for armholes. Kids can tear a fringe along the bottom, glue on a foil sheriff's badge or add other decorations.

•Go hunt in the hay. In a small pile of hay, hide pennies or little toys, which kids must feel around for with their eyes shut.

•Lasso practice. Using a hula hoop and a child's wooden rocking horse, have cowboys try to "rope" the mustang's neck.

•Shoot-out at the Better-than-OK Corral. Spread small, inexpensive plastic bugs on the sidewalk and have kids shoot at the varmints with squirt guns. Anyone who moves a bug with the stream of water gets to keep it. Or, cut out silhouettes of animals from tissue paper, affix them to the side of the house and let each kid shoot one. The first kid to put a hole through her target wins.

FAVORS:

In addition to the cowboy hat, squirt gun and bandanna, each cowpoke can take home a toy harmonica or bag of trail mix.

EATS:

The chow wagon can serve up pie tins filled with franks and (jelly) beans, and glasses of sarsaparilla--root beer--to wash down the trail dust. For a special cake, try one shaped like a cowboy's best friend: his horse.

HORSE CAKE

Answer 7

How about a "roping" contest?  You could get a lasso at the local farm supply store, then use a stuffed animal for a target.  Or hobby horse barrel racing?  how about the most creative use of a bandana (bandanas could be used to wrap the "party favors" by tying opposite corners together or as napkins at the table )?  You could give out squirt guns as favors and then have a target course set up in the backyard where a grownup or two hides behind a bush or table and pops out and they get to shoot you.  Be sure to wear your best cowboy hat yourself, and a bandanna around your neck, if you are clean shaven, you could pencil on a stubbly beard and or mustache.  You can also get fake mustaches from a place like Oriental Trading Company and they are a big hit with the kids as favors.

You could also make up a game, something like Sharks and Minnows, but played on land in which a few people are cowboys and the rest are "dogies" and the cowboys have to round up the dogies....

Have a great time, it sounds like a fun theme!

Answer 8

Western Cowboy Birthday Decorations:

A basic red and white checkered table cloth cover the table.

Make a centerpiece with a balloon bouquet tied to a toy horse.  

If possible, give a real horseshoe to every child, attach a balloon to each one and place at their table setting. Hang streamers, western stencils and ropes. Hay, saddles and horseshoes add authenticity to the decor.

Place the saddle over a bail of hay so that the children can ride an imaginary horse. Don't forget the western music!

Rodeo Games

Tin can shoot played with empty pop bottles and a squirt gun.

  Place three cans on a bench and take turns with the water gun.

Pin the "tail on the horse", "badge on the sheriff ", cowboy hat on the etc.

Have a rope tying contest with licorice, or real ropes.

Galloping horse relay, with brooms and a challenge course.

  Use bails of hay and saw horses for fun obstacles.

Boot Toss - use large cowboy boots and bean bags. The children will try

  to toss the bean bags into the boots. Or, use a large cowboy hat.

Penny in a hay stack - hide pennies, small toy horses, and other cowboy  

  other items in a pile of hay...then kids will pile in to find them!

A game of horseshoes of course!

Rattle snake tag. Play just as you would a game of tag, but the player  

  who is "IT", will hiss like a snake. The child who tagged by the snake, can

  be out or becomes the new snake. Players receive a toy snake prize.

Answer 9

Have a little rodeo, all the kids dress in their cowboy gear, they could rope and race. You could have pony rides. You need to be creative with your games because I'm sure you live in the city, but you can still stage a pretty fun party if you use your imagination, think like an 8 yr old, remember when you could make fun out of anything.

Answer 10

Get a square bail of hey and put horns on it and have a lassoing contest..I did it as a child and has a blast. They also have those tire swings that look like a hourse.

Answer 11

Get a red and white checkered table cloth and get country music!! Make real country and messy foods and buy special aprons for the kids to wear so the parents dont get mad if messy stainable food is on their kids clothing! Buy little fake guns that you get in packs at the dollar store and they can go around in that!! Pretending to shoot each other!! Buy your son a special cowboy costume just for him since it is his birthday!! Buy pin the tail on the the donkey or the horse!! Pop in a couple of little kid movies that have a country western theme to it that the kids will be interested in at the end so they can all calm down with the old Amercian way of popcorn!!