Celebrate your child’s birthday with a Wild West theme party.  It would be fun and easy on your budget.  Whether you would order online for the party essentials or you would make them yourself, it would be great.

If you have watched those old western films, then you can get a lot of ideas to make your party have that genuine Wild West feel to it.  Here are some ideas that would help you in your cowboy‑themed party.  You can incorporate the kids’ cowboy hat from the invites to the games.

The Invite

Do not forget to use the western theme for your invitation.  You can just as easily print one or buy one from the party supply store for this important Wild West party essential.  You can use Wanted poster invites.  You can also send bandanas or kids cowboy hats as invites with the party details on it and ask your guests to wear it when they come to the party.  This would give your guest the idea of the theme of the party.  Be sure to ask your guests to come dressed like they have just come from the Wild West era.

Decorations

You can set a place in your house like the living room or the garage for the venue.  Decorate the place that would make it look like the Old West era.  You can make a Wild West backdrop on one wall.  You can make one wall look like a jail cell with bars or the swinging doors of a saloon.  You can also make cardboard horses or a saddle on one side, or a big cactus on the other.  You can look for a bale of hay that you can place in one corner.  Hang kids’ cowboy hats on the wall.  You can also hang several Wanted posters with the celebrant’s photos on them.  Make the party area like the inside of a saloon complete with tables with red and white checkered tablecloths and cacti or horseshoe centerpieces.

The Costume

You can dress your kids like a cowboy and ask the invited friends to come looking as gunslingers, sheriffs, outlaws, saloon owners, etc.  You do not even have to buy the costume – well, maybe just the kids’ cowboy hats to make it real.  You can wear jeans, checkered shirts, bandanas, boots, and the cowboy hat.  If you have toy guns that can be strapped to a belt, then it would also look good.  You can also make sheriff badges where you can put the name of the guests.

The Menu

You can serve soda or juice at the bar of the saloon.  Serve chicken fingers and chips on kids’ cowboy hats.  Cactus‑shaped and star‑shaped cookies would also be great.  The cake should also have the Wild West theme.  You can choose a design with cowboy hats, cactus, etc.

Games

There are a lot of games that would be fun for the kids.  You can easily incorporate the kids’ cowboy hats in the traditional games.  You can play the tossing the hat game, a relay game, and the musical chair game where instead of sitting when the music stops, the one wearing the cowboy hat when the music stops will be eliminated from the game.

Party Favors

You can use the kids’ cowboy hats as the loot bags where you can put the party favors.  You can also take a picture of the guests in the jail cell or at the saloon bar and print it so your guests can take it with them as a souvenir.

A few weeks ago I was getting ready to start my road trip to Chicago. I started flipping through my CD’s for something new to listen to since Blueprint 3 needed a break. I came across Kanye West’s Late Registration (the real CD not a burnt copy) and had to bump it. After rapping along for over an hour and fast forwarding over the few dry spots I thought to myself “that album was the shit”. A great album from front to back. That can be said for most of Kanye’s albums. (I do not have any idea about 808 and Heartbreaks since my ears, mind and musical soul boycotted the album). However my two hour road trip with the Late Registration Kanye West made something painfully obvious…………

We, ladies and gentlemen are watching the fall of Mr. West; in part to EGO and musical lane shifting.

He hinted that his ego was out of control years ago but we didn’t listen. We said that’s just Kanye being Kanye and let him get away with all kinds of silly shit. First he told us Bush didn’t like black people, maybe…… But then he went crazy on every award show and acted like a child when he didn’t win. We all know about the Taylor Swift incident but his latest blunder is mind bending. Kanye now thinks that if they rewrote a modern day Bible he should be in it. WOW!! We are the only ones to blame for this since we didn’t shut him down sooner.

I’m all for artistic growth and keeping it moving but stay within your lane. I want my rappers to rap and my R &B singers to sing, simple. Don’t go switching lanes at high speeds nothing good will come of it. 808 and Heartbreaks sold and he got some awards, which only made the ego worst. But history has proven time and time again. that every rapper that starts going soft and singing will fail. Bone Thugs Crossroads was a big hit and downhill from there. Ja Rule had one two many duets and look at him now. Even 50 who came in the game making funny of Ja’s singing started singing and guess what, downhill. No tight pants, no mullet jheri curl looking thingy or sunglasses with lines in them just good music please.  It’s not too late for him to calm it down, get back to rapping and dating chicks like Amber Rose. He does that and everything will be all good.

But that’s just my thought.

 J.Crane

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