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Ranch Party Invitations: Come on over to our Ranch for a Birthday Hoe-down for our ranch hand inside: Ranch address: Day: Time: RSVP: To the Ranch Boss Another idea: Use green cardstock (1/4 sheet) with Mrs. Grossman's farm stickers. Text: It's (name) 2nd birthday - down on the farm! Please join us for a birthday brunch on Date! Us ranch hands and cowpokes will be all rounded up at (123 Main Street) at "time" a.m. Come in your cutest farmer duds, rustle up our ponies and have your picture taken with a (faux) cow! Nancy Merrill Decorations: Wagons with straw or raffia, use for a hay wagon ride. Small packs of real alfalfa can be purchased from pet stores in bags used for rabbit feed. Decorate in the fall time with cornstalks, pumpkins, dried corn and gourds. Make a scarecrow. Red, forest green and cow balloons, and the centerpiece can be a Fisher-Price barn surrounded by plastic animals and raffia "hay" For FUN: pony rides. You could also invite someone with a friendly pig or goat for petting (check out your local 4-H kids!). We also did Polaroids of the kids next to a cow cutout.Cake and food: Another Cake: Baked in a 9x13 pan, frosted white with crushed-cookie dirt, topped with a toy tractor, trailer and little animals and veggies. For a quick cake: Use two round cakes and
stack them. Frost white and put on black cow spots. - Serve a chicken feed mix: pretzels, corn pops, other grain cereals, etc Serve punch in a punch bowl packed inside a wash tub filled with ice. Misty Mitchell Goodies: Games and Activities: Egg hunt: Collect eggs (plastic Easter eggs) that the farm chickens have laid about the yard. Use the milk pails. Stuff the eggs with yellow pom-poms (egg yolks) place one or two per egg. The kids open them and count how many yolks they have. One with the most is the winner. Egg toss...toss plastic eggs into a basket(s) of hay. Could set this up like a ball toss with each egg being tossed into the farther basket. Give points per basket. Square Dance Hay wagon races: if you have enough wagons, team up the kids (or kids and parents) and have a race. Animal charades: put the name of barnyard animals in a bowl and let the kids act them out. Pin the tail on the cow or pig
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