| Stop horsin' around and start creating a memorable | | | | Cover your party tables with burlap and sprinkle |
| horse birthday party for your little wranglers that they | | | | strands of hay on top, like you would confetti, and tie |
| are sure to enjoy. Check out our ideas for invitations, | | | | off the corners using licorice laces. |
| decorations, and party games to help make your | | | | Create a Bryer horse display in the center of your |
| equestrian celebration shine! | | | | table using a few horses, along with some mini hay |
| INVITATIONS | | | | bales, fencing, and horse tack. Attach a bouquet of |
| Using a die-cut horse or horseshoe as a pattern, cut | | | | balloons in the center. |
| these out of tan cardstock to form your invitation. | | | | If you have access to horse tack, then opt for making |
| Using a gel pen, write out your party details in | | | | an extra-special photo opt area by displaying hay |
| calligraphy. On one side write, "Gallop! Don't Trot on | | | | bales, a saddle, and a western mural (made from |
| Over for a Rootin' Tootin' Wild Horse Birthday Party! | | | | western posters) on a wall or fence and take photos |
| On the reverse side, write all of the following party | | | | of each of your little cowpokes. |
| details: | | | | HORSE BIRTHDAY PARTY GAMES & |
| Big, Bad Birthday Roundup On: (date and time of party) | | | | ACTIVITIES |
| Meet Us At The O.K. Coral Located At: (address of | | | | Hold your horses! We reckon it's time for some horse |
| party) | | | | play! |
| R.S.V.P. To The Stable Boy/Girl: (parent's name & | | | | Horseshoes - For older kids use real horseshoes and |
| phone #) | | | | for younger kids use plastic or rubber horseshoes or |
| HORSE BIRTHDAY PARTY DECORATIONS | | | | make horseshoe rings from rope. |
| Using a little imagination, creativity, and lots of | | | | Stack Them Cubes! - Each wrangler has a pile of |
| horse-themed decorations, ya'll be able to rope in your | | | | sugar cubes. When you say "Giddy-up" wranglers |
| little fillies and colts in no time. We reckon some of the | | | | race to build the tallest stack of sugar cubes in a timed |
| following decorations will strike your fancy: | | | | period. |
| As guests arrive, send them over to the branding | | | | Horse Race - Create a life-size "game board" in your |
| station where they will be identified as V.I.P.G.'s (Very | | | | yard using carpet squares. Lay them out in a |
| Important Party Goers) with a special "branding" iron. | | | | Candyland Game fashion. Add a few obstacles like |
| Use rubber stamps or tattoos. | | | | saw horses, galvanized buckets, bales of hay, etc. then |
| Decorate ceilings with 2 different colored twisted | | | | have all your horsies (guests) compete to the finish line. |
| streamers and clusters of balloons with curling ribbons. | | | | Write numbers 0-3 on index cards, along with a |
| Use horseshoes as a balloon weight to display floor | | | | command like gallop, trot, run, canter, whinny, neigh. As |
| balloon bouquets throughout room. | | | | the cards are drawn, they move forward the number |
| Add a horsey table runner down the center of your | | | | of spaces on the card, while performing command. For |
| party table. Either make one horse-printed fabric or | | | | example, move forward 2 spaces while trotting. |
| dismantle a horse calendar and affix the photos to a | | | | Have fun! Yippie-Ki-Aye! |
| piece of fabric and lay it down the center of the table. | | | | |