Here’s some advice and tips for holding a Barnyard Party that your guests will surely love.
Decorations
This party is best held in the backyard. Tables can be set out with red and white chequered tablecloths. Decorate the table using plastic farm animals and straw.
You can scatter straw about the yard, making fake fences out of cardboard. Cheap hay or straw can often be bought at pet stores where it might be called “Chaff”. It will require some raking later on but the kids will have a ball!
Give the yard a rustic feel by leaving out rakes, buckets and rope.
Food
Serve food such as pies, sandwiches or chips in baskets lined with straw. Boiled eggs are also prefect for the day, arranged in nests on the table or even hidden throughout the yard for the guests to search for.
Games & Activities
If you’ve used hay to decorate the yard, make cleaning up fun by giving each guest a rake and hold a competition to see who can gather the biggest pile of hay within the time limit.
A fun idea is to have the guests making the noise of the animal they’re dressed as, with each guest taking a turn as conductor, creating a wild symphony of noise.
The Barnyard party is perfect for costumes, with guests dressing up as all sorts of farm animals such as cows, pigs, chickens, sheep and dogs. For added fun have some guests dressed as farmers and see if they can keep the animals in check!
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