Corral your friends for a rip-roaring rodeo party!Invitations Fold a half sheet of construction paper in half so that the shorter sides meet. Draw a boot shape on the fold, and cut out the shape through both layers. Write "Howdy, Partner" on the front of the card. On the inside write: "Ride on over to MY Rodeo Party. Dress in western gear (jeans, bandanna, cowboy hat, boots--whatever you have)." Write the date and time of the party along with your name, address, and phone number. Decorations Horses Decorate your yard, dining room, or kitchen to look like a corral corral a small fenced-in enclosure with high, wooden fences, suitable for holding cattle or horses. corral system a management system in which range cattle are put into corrals and fed hay for a period when the environment is most . Cut out cactus cactus, any plant of the family Cactaceae, a large group of succulents found almost entirely in the New World. A cactus plant is conspicuous for its fleshy green stem, which performs the functions of leaves (commonly insignificant or absent), and for the spines (not plants or fence sections from large pieces of cardboard, and paint them. If you have hay bales, you can place one or two here and there. Change your chairs into horses: blow up several balloons, draw a horse's face on each, and tape on paper ears. Attach a yarn bridle, and use it to tie or tape the "horse's head" to the back of a chair. Fasten a yarn or rope tail to the front of the seat of each chair. (With your parents' permission, pin the tails to upholstery, or tape r tie them to wooden, plastic, or metal chairs.) Centerpiece Make a lasso lasso (lăs`ō, lăs  `), light, strong rope, usually with a smooth, hard finish, made of a fine quality of hemp or nylon. shape out of rope and place it in the center of the
table. Put a cowboy hat in the middle of the lasso.
Lasso Placemats Use construction paper for placemats. Glue brown yarn in the shape of a lasso about an inch in from the edges of the placemats. Put a paper plate in the center of each. Place-Card Straws Draw flags on small pieces of paper. Write each guest's name on a flag, and tape it near the top of a straw, leaving room for the person to sip from the straw. Place the flags beside the placemats. Games Clown Masks Clowns help protect the cowboys during a rodeo. Have your guests make clown masks for the Clown Dress-up Contest (see the next column). Gather the following supplies: yarn, paper plates, crayons or felt pens, pompoms, and scissors scissors Cutting instrument or tool consisting of a pair of opposed metal blades that meet and cut when the handles at their ends are brought together. Modern scissors are of two types: the more usual pivoted blades have a rivet or screw connection between the cutting ends , glue. First, cut out holes in the paper plate for eyes and a mouth. Next, decorate the face. Add yarn hair and a pompom pom·pon also pom·pom n. 1. A tuft or ball of material such as wool or ribbon, used as a decoration, especially on shoes, caps, or curtains. 2. A small buttonlike flower of some chrysanthemums and dahlias. 3. nose. Glue a wooden ice-cream stick or tongue depressor tongue depressor n. A thin blade for pressing down the tongue during a medical examination of the mouth and throat; a spatula. to the bottom of the mask to hold it in front of your face. To wear the mask, poke holes in the sides of the mask and add yarn ties. Clown Dress-up Contest Before the party, fill two laundry baskets with separate sets of adult-size western wear: jeans, cowboy shirt, belt, scarf or bandanna, work gloves, and boots. Divide players into two teams. Have each player tie on or hold up his clown mask. At a signal, the first player on each team runs to his team's basket, puts on the western wear over his clothes (putting down the mask if it's not tied on), yells "Yee-Ha!," takes off the dress-up clothes, drops them into the basket, and runs back to his team. Each player takes a turn. The winning team is the one that finishes first. Horseshoe Pass The Horseshoe Pass (Welsh: Bwlch yr Oernant) is a mountain pass in Denbighshire, north-east Wales. It separates Llantysilio Mountain to the west from Cyrn-y-Brain to the east. Round up the horse chairs in a circle. Each player sits on his horse. Turn on country music. As the music plays, players pass a cardboard horseshoe around the circle. Then stop the music. The player holding the horseshoe is out. Remove his or her horse chair, and make the circle smaller. Start the music again, and repeat the game until one player remains. You might award this roughrider rough·rid·er n. 1. A skilled rider of little-trained horses, especially one who breaks horses for riding. 2. Rough Rider A member of the First U.S. a prize. Tumbleweed tumbleweed, any of several plants, particularly abundant in prairie and steppe regions, that commonly break from their roots at maturity and, drying into a rounded tangle of light, stiff branches, roll before the wind, covering long distances and scattering seed as Words Give each player a pencil and a copy of a list of scrambled words that have to do with the west or rodeos. (Below is a list of possible scrambled words and their answers.) Set a time limit. The player who unscrambles the most words in that time wins a prize. DLSEDA RETSE LUBL FACL WCOGLRI AHSPC ESOHR RRELAB PCAMH HRANC Answers: Saddle, bull, cowgirl, horse, champ, steer, calf, chaps, barrel, ranch. Grub grub: see larva. Hot Doggies Serve grilled hot dogs on a bun. Add mustard, ketchup, or salsa. Black Bull Put two scoops of vanilla ice Robert Matthew Van Winkle (born October 31, 1968), better known as Vanilla Ice, is a Grammy Award nominated, American Music Award winning American rapper and actor known mostly for the 1990 single "Ice Ice Baby. cream in a tall ass or cup. Slowly pour root beer over the ice cream until the foam reaches the top of the glass. Chuck-Wagon Chili Heat up chili, and top it with sour cream or plain yogurt. Grazing grazing, n See irregular feeding. grazing 1. actions of herbivorous animals eating growing pasture or cereal crop. 2. area of pasture or cereal crop to be used as standing feed. See also pasture. Greens Toss together lettuce, your favorite raw vegetables, sprouts, and ranch dressing. Pull your horses up to the table, put on some country music, and chow down, partners! |
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