How to get the look:
Add galvanized steel containers and rusty rod iron items to create a vintage feel.
We use wood veneer candles as the base to our cake stands.
Use neutral colors for backdrop and table cloth
We made a wanted poster with our little guys picture in it. It is available in our shop as well!
Items included in our printable pack are: Happy Birthday banner in a bandana paisley print
Howdy! Chow down sign
cupcake wrappers in paisley bananda print, horse shoes with sheriff badge, red and beige plaid and cow print.
Boots decals: These can be used as favor toppers, tags, attach to a paper bag.... so many options. We used these as favor toppers. We attached a clear bag to the back and filled with candy rocks and gummy snakes {or in other words.... gummy worms} for "there's a snake in my boot" favors. The kids LOVED these!
Favor toppers: {4 designs} filled with blueberry cookies... These are one of my favorite cookies!
For the sign bases we made "wheel spokes" {The wheel print is included in our printable collection}. Just cut a cylinder foam in half. Cut the wheel in half and then glue with rubber cement onto the foam.
Since we were doing a Vintage Western Cowboy Birthday.... I wanted to add a little bit of the Wild Wild West to it. I came up with Gold Rush: panning for gold. The kids has so much fun with this!!!
We started out with the mini pie tins. Fill the tin with 5-7 chocolate gold nuggets from Hershey's. We then filled with candy rocks so they dig and find the "gold" in the rocks. This was a really fun activity for the kids.... that tasted good as well!
These were my favorite treat by far and with all the adults! I made peanut butter brownie satchels. This is what sparked the idea for the whole collection. I was making these sweets at my sister's house and thought.... this would be such a cool dessert for a cowboy collection!
We staged the satchels on a wood board and placed cans as the base (again bring in the galvanized steel). This is an inexpensive base. What's so great is that they come in 3 different sizes that you could make tiered dessert displays. Here is the recipe for the Peanut Butter and Jelly Brownie dessert.
The Drink Well....
We filled a large galvanize bucket with peanuts! You could have mini steel buckets for them to take a bucket of peanuts with their root beer.
I love your ideas here! I am thinking about doing a cowboy/cowgirl 5th birthday for my twins next year. I was wondering if you had a recipe for the peanut butter brownie satchels. If so, I would LOVE to get a copy of it! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteHi! I just did a post on the recipe. you can view it here
ReplyDeletehttp://wantsandwishesdesign.blogspot.com/2012/04/peanut-butter-jelly-brownie-delight.html
Enjoy.... they are delicious!