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Recreate the frontier spirit with a wild west party theme. You can have great fun just setting up this flexible party.

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They have a stunning selection of wild west graduation decorations, including fantastic wild west party ideas items.

I have tried to give you lots of ideas on wild west invitations, wild west food and drink, wild west decorations, wild west costumes, wild west games and wild west favors which will be great for any venue. You may have a Home Party or alternative venue in mind.

Hosting the graduation party in conjunction with the school for example is one of the better graduation party ideas. That gives:

• a good size of party with better wild west decorations and a more eye catching venue to get the everyone excited, decorating a large venue as a wild west town would be just awesome


• A budget, perhaps, to hire equipment, buy wild west decorations and hire wild west entertainers


• Parents to help organise, raise funds and help at the party


• Lots of party goers to take part in each wild west party game

With lots of fun, energy and enthusiasm your graduation party can be a brilliant success.

Wild west graduation party ideas give the chance to have an OK Corral, Barndance, Hoedown, Saloon, Barber Shop, Frontier Town, Jail or Ranch.

Wild West Party ideas - Invitations

There are lots of great images to use to give graduation invitations that truly fit the wild west party ideas.

• Cowboys, Sherriffs, Deputies


• Outlaws, gunfighters and posses


• Gold mines, miners, gold coins


• Rodeo riders and bucking broncos


• Ranches, straw bales, cattle and cattle droves


• Mountains and deserts


• Frontier Towns, shop fronts, dirt streets, tumbleweed and townspeople


• Wagons, Wagon Trains, Wagon Wheels


• Ranch, Cactus, Chapparel


• Stetson, Sombreros, Boots


• Horses, Horseshoes, Saddles, Stables


• Saloon, Barber Shop


• Jail

A brilliant way to design the graduation invitations is as wanted posters. Also they could be Sherriff badges or invites to a hoedown (even shaped as a Barn).

Paper

For the paper use say yellow paper, perhaps using a tea bag to make it look older. Let it dry over night and see the older looking paper. Crush it some to add to the effect.

Wording

The wording can be really in character:

Wanted: the graduate for graduating from (name of educational establishment)

Howdy, we need you buckarros to help celebrate the (graduates) graduation. Mosey on over to (venue details), for some vitals and dancing. Wear your best western clothes. Give us a holler at (contact details as RSVP). See y'all soon.

Your sherriff just earned their badge. The (graduate) needs you to come to (venue) at (time/date) to be sworn in as deputies and celebrate with a hoedown.

Let the sherrif (RSVP) know if you can join the possee.

Wild West costume needed to get in to the graduation party.

Se y'all.

The Lazy O Ranch (gradute's venue) are having a barn dance. Mosey on over at (time/date) and join in the fun. Wild West clothes only. Prize for best dressed! Lots of tucker, drinks and dancin.

Let the rancher (RSVP) know if y'all comin.

Mosey on over to the graduate's (name) hoedown. Celebrate the graduation with a real western bash! Wear your ten gallon hat and boots. RSVP (details)

Clipart Graduation Invitations

The simplest way to complete wild west party ideas invitations is to use clipart.

• Copy and Past the graduation clip art image that you would like to use into your word document. Before you paste make sure your cursor is in the location where you want the clip art placed


• Click on the image and arrows will appear on the corners. Use these arrows to stretch the image to the desired size.


• Then I simply added wordart at the top of the page for a fancy title and added the party details in plain text underneath the graduation clip art.

Lots more detailed instructions on my clipart page..

Photo Graduation Invitations

Also, simply arrange a good quality wild west style photograph. A wild west photograph of the graduate dressed as a sherrif, outlaw (in black), rodeo rider on a bucking bronco, or cowhand with a lassoo would be perfect.

Scan it onto your computer.

Using photo editing software, change the picture dimensions to the size you need.

Then simply print onto flat card with the printed invitation details on the back. Instant invitations to compliment your wild west party ideas.

Free Printable Graduation Invitations

Wild West Party Ideas - Confetti

One of the great graduation party ideas is to have personalised confetti.

The most amazing photo confetti maker can produce confetti using up to 10 wild west photos and up to 3 accent colors. They have packs to suit your occassion.

The wild west photos could be of the graduate in lots of wild west party ideas costumes.

Wild West Party Ideas - Costumes

The simplest party to prepare costumes for. You'll want to get into the graduate and guests into character so the wild west party ideas work well.

• Jeans, vest, shirt, boots and a cowboy hat


• Belts, holsters


• Sherrif and Deputy badges


• Add to the effect with water pistols and holsters


• Stetson, sombreros and sherriff hats


• Lassoos, saddles, reins


• Even better if you have a horse! Dress the horse up too!


• Boots and spurs


• Kerchiefs

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Wild West Party Ideas - Decorations

I think you can have just as much fun preparing for the wild west party ideas. Make the venue into a real wild west theme. Use as many decorations as you can to make it awesome.

• All writing to be in wild west style language.


• Theme kits to make your party venue into a Ranch, OK Corral, Barndance, Stables, jail, or Saloon. Welcome your guests with real western style entrance to get the party started.


• Saloon Doors, you could make these from large cardboard boxes. Simply draw the pattern and carefully cut them out.


• Using a refridgerator box make an entrance to a mine with a cave style entrance, ye olde mine sign, danger keep out sign, gold coins and a lantern to light it.


• Make lots of pictures with Graduate Saloon, Graduate Barber Shop, Graduate Jail, Graduate Sherrifs Office, Graduate Hotel, Graduate Supply Store


• Make jail windows from aluminium foil and put them on the venue windows


• Life sized cutouts of cowboys and amigos complete with holes for your face. Also you could use wanted poster or rodeo style . Take a picture of everyone dressed in wild west theme.


• Make a cactus painted green with black spikes, also have pictures of cacti. Also cactus pinatta.


• Murals and pictures of wild west themes, including a town. If you have an artist friend ask them to draw a giant wild west mural. Ask the guests to color it in, add their own bits and leave messages for the graduates. The mural could also be of a sunset desert style scene.


• Brilliant wild west scene setter


• Lots of wanted posters with pictures of the graduate


• Ropes, cowboy boots, wagon wheels, hats, hay bales, pitchforks, shovels and water pistols


• White picket fences


• Use yard signs with say a rodeo horse.


• Hang up lights. Xmas lights would be good, if you can find them there are santa fe style, and horse style lights.


• Hang up banners in wild west style announcing the graduation party. These could be made from a bedsheet.


• Hang up signs like Graduate Hotel, Graduate Saloon, First Graduate Bank, Blacksmith, Store or Jail.


• Balloons in many styles are available. These could be fiesta, boots, cowhide, cactus, chili, and longhorn cow styles


• Make wild west bunting. This could simply be colorful bunting or have wild west images on them.


• Streamers hung from door, walls and doors.


• Oil lamps and traditional lanterns


• Gold mine complete with gold coins. For younger kids you could have thie mine sited at a sandpit. You could hide fake gold coins in the sand and have them dig the mine for treasure!


• Give out sherriff and deputy badges, hats, and water pistols.


• Signposts for wild west towns. You can make signposts for graduate ville.


• Horse standees, pictures of horses, and pictures of a rodeo. Also pictures of sheep and cows.


• Straw bales


• Decorate with any toys you have of horses, cows, rodeo riders and cowboys


• Split rail fencing

Make your venue whip cracking good with wild west party ideas.

Decorate your guests, this is a brilliant way to add to the wild west party ideas and getting your guests in the graduation party mood!

• Sherrif's badges


• Ten gallon hats


• Vests


• Pistols


• Sombreros


• Boots


• Bandanas


• Funtoos


• 2008 Glasses


• 2008 Beads


• Graduation caps


• Cap Medallions


• Lots of glow sticks and bracelets

A great idea is to have a box of guest decorations at the party entrance and hand them out liberally!

Wild west party ideas Table decorations, a table centerpiece with check cloth, beans and corn, perhaps with a cowboy hat, tin bucket, straw bale, lantern, boot or cactus on it. Add some cactus confetti for effect. Also wild west style plates and boot mugs. You could use bandanas as napkins.

Wild West Party Ideas - Food and Drink

Signpost the food area as the graduate saloon. Wild west party ideas food is fairly simple.

• Beans


• Hot Dogs


• BBQ, with chicken, spare ribs, burgers and pork


• Chili


• Sausages


• Golden Nuggets


• Popcorn


• Corn and cornbread


• Tortilla chips


• Lots of salad, including green salad


• Useful, too, to add bowls of fruit and nuts


• M&Ms


• Candy

Bang a ladle on a pan to let everyone know the food is ready!

To drink, root beer and ginger ale. Lots of water required to keep everyone going.

For the wild west party ideas Cake it could be shaped as a boot, cactus, wagon, wagon wheel, sherriff badge, saloon, jail or rattle snake. Simply bake a cake and frost it. Cut into any shape you want and use icing to create the image such as a wagon wheel. Add congratulations to the graduate!!

See next section for full cake making details.

Graduation Cake

The Graduation Cake page gives you full instructions on cooking tools, ingredients, recipe, cooking times and frosting instructions.

Graduation Cake Decorating Idea

1) Find someone local who will print an image onto edible paper for you – you need a special printer for this so point trying to find the paper yourself. 2) Cover the cake in frosting with chocolate laced through it – will give it an aged look. 3) Now place the picture in the middle of the cake and pipe the message “Wanted” at the top.  

Wild West Party Ideas - Games

Wild west party ideas games should be active and fun!

• Every party can enjoy a sing-a-long. Just like being by the campfire. Sing those wonderful wild west classics, Home On The Range, My Darling Clementine, and Deep In The Heart Of Texas for example.


• Scoot them away. use the water pistols to push empty cans off a ledge.


• Sack race, just set out a short course and give evryone who plays a sack.


• Horseshoe toss, simply set up a spike and have a start line some feet away depending on age of contestants.


• Lassoo game, set up a fake longhorn and let everyone show their skill.


• Horse shaped or cactus pinatta.


• Hire a buckaroo, one of the best ways to get everyone calling out.


• Water pistol fastest draw.


• Create your own cow brand. Give a prize for the best design.


• Hobby Horse races. Using a broom as a horse and set up a race track.


• Balloon cattle drive. Each contestant has the drive say 20 balloons along a short course.


• Panning for gold. Hide lots of fake gold nuggets in a sand box.


• Draw a wild west mural and have everyone color in a part, and sign it. Could be a saloon or town scene


• Draw pictures of cowboys, barns, cows and other wild west images and have veryone color one in. Prize for the best!


• Have a Line Dancing competition


• Pin the tail on the horse. Simply draw a lareg horse and arrange a tail with streamers and use sticky tack to pin it on, and of course a blindfold.


• Have some craft games like decorate a horeshoe, sherriff's badge and for younger kids have wild west coloring in.

Wild West Party Ideas - Favor

Wild West party ideas bags with hats, sherriff badges, water pistols, harmonicas, fake rattle snake, fake handcuffs, hats, lanterns, t-shirts, funtoos, ropes, stickers, coins, vests and boots.

Also wild west party ideas music cds would be a great reminder of the party.

Wild West Party Ideas - Music

You should be able to find great wild west party ideas music like the soundtrack to Big Country, lots of John Wayne movies, and even western TV programmes.

Try this western cd with classic tracks. Including cotton eye joe, achy breaky heart and wild wild west.

Other great songs:

Wild West Party Ideas - Ideas

Lots more wild west graduation party ideas.

• Take a photo of everyone on a buckaroo against a wild west background such as a saloon or expansive big country scene.


• The graduates could also put on their own wild west show. Get them to organise say a 5 to 10 minute scene like a shootout or even just signing Oklahoma.


• In conjunction with the school hire a wild west show with professional acts, props, and scripted entertainment. Give the whole party a wow factor.


• Hire a wild west party ideas set.


• Organise line dancing.


• Have a Honky Tonk pianist playing.


• Play a favorite western film.


• There will be lots of gifts for the graduate. Thank You notes written by the graduate are the best!


• Write out rough timings for the party, including expected games times and when you want to serve the food


• Younger kids need some free time just to play, arrange activity areas where they can choose what to do, or just run around exploring the wild west party ideas


• Stick to games the kids know, it can be too much to teach a new game


• Try to avoid games where young kids are out. An increasing number of bored kids will not help the party


• Protect your furniture, wild west party ideas can be messy


• Talk to your neighbours in advance


• Save money and have a joint wild west party with other graduates.
  This can give excellent cost sharing, lots of people to do the work and help find items at cheaper costs.


• Save money and Buy Bargain Supplies!


• Save money and book venues for the cheaper weeknights


• Think about the venue and the likely weather. A tent, kindergarten, YMCA, local park or school gym can be great alternatives.

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It's always fun to be silly from time to time and you can certainly manage that with Wild West party ideas. Good luck turning your wild west ideas into a great party!

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