Every tiny boy loves tractors! There is something about those big green machines. So, for this birthday Go Green! Invitations: Use a template of a straightforward tractor using green building paper and outlining with a black marker. On a detach sheet of yellow paper, write the title "Our tiny Deere __ is turning __, so join us for some good old farm fun!" Plain white invitations can be made quite festive with the John Deere clip art or stickers. A picture of your child on a tractor would also be a fabulous ask and can be copied quite actually and cost effectively using a colour printer or at your local photo center.
The Venue: How about an outing? You could visit a petting zoo, a pumpkin patch, a pony riding town or a local farm. Your one step ahead if you already live on a farm! An old fashioned family bonfire is a fabulous back drop for this kind of event. No worries though, even if your a city slicker you can actually transform your home or backyard into a "farm house" worthy of a John Deere Birthday Party! Decorations: Green & Yellow of course! A wide range of John Deere licensed goods can be purchased straight through my website or your local party center. Throw in a barnyard feel with hay bails, saddles, scarecrows, pitch forks, cowboy hats and farm animals. Ask the kids to come in their finest denim farm clothes but furnish them with a straw hat and bandanna when they arrive.
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Activities: You can't have a John Deere Party without a tractor! So, if you don't have a real one for tractor rides, turn a quarterly old wagon into one with 2 large cardboard pieces, the tractor template, green paint and some imagination! The tiny ones will love their imaginary tractor rides. If your party is indoors or for some further decoration, use a bunch of farm animal colouring sheets. Cover a full wall with butcher paper or large white paper roll. Make a farm scene by painting on some grass, a fence and blue sky. Have the kids colour the pictures and then cut and paste the pictures onto wall. Or you can even have the kids colour right onto the paper wall. The kids will have a blast decorating the life sized farm scene.
Games: Needle in a Haystack - Hide objects in a loose pile of hay. Use needles for older party guests and small toys for younger ones. Have them wear work gloves for safety. If you cannot get your hands on some hay you can use any bags of raffia or dried grass clippings. Young or Old, every person loves a game of Horse Shoes - the younger the child, the closer the shot line. Do I Moo? - Attach an animal symbol or picture to each child's back. Each player must recognize what kind of animal they are by asking "yes" or "no" questions. For example, "Can I fly?", "Am I pink?", etc. Catch a Pig - Grease up 1 pink balloon with baby oil for every player and place the whole bunch about 20 feet away from where the kids are lined up. On "Go" have them run and try to catch a pig and place it back in its pen. The pen can be any box or container. It is hilarious and not that easy! Have an area set up where you can practise your cowboy skills by roping some cattle. A straightforward rope works great as a lasso and a sawhorse from Dad's garage works great as an animal target. Chicken Egg Hunt - Reuse your plastic Easter Eggs by filling them with some neat toys, trinkets or candy and hiding them colse to the party yard or party room. Herding Cattle - Colour some black cow spots on white balloons.
Using a broom, the object is to swat 8-10 balloons from one side of the room to the other. Use a stopwatch to see who can herd the cows the fastest. Hoe Down - play some Country Music and form a square dancing line or have a line dancing lesson! Menu: A good, old, down home barbecue of hamburgers, hot dogs, chili, potato salad, watermelon and corn on the cob. Serve the snacks and salads out of mini galvanized buckets and fill a wheel barrow with ice to keep your drinks cold in. Have fullness of wooden picnic tables on hand for seating. The cake can be any shape or size but must have intelligent John Deere green coloured icing. Use a decopac set or plainly use your childs favourite toy tractor for the town of the cake. Be sure to sit the tractor ontop of a mud or soil pile! A mud/soil pile is made by crumbling up some dark cookies. Corral the tractor and hill in with a pretzel stick fence.
Loot Bags: All kids love to dress up - a cowboy hat, a bandanna and a pair of kids work gloves would be the perfect gifts to take home with them. You can also purchase John Deere stickers, toy tractors, launchers & keychains for plastic lootbags. Plastic farm animals and candy eggs would be a great addition! All farms have gardens so why not furnish each guest with a small pot and a few easy growing seeds like bean, radish or sunflower and have them "sow their seeds." They can take their plant home and watch it grow.
John Deere Farm Birthday Party Ideas
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