Pinatas
Horse
Horseshoe
Cowboy Boot

Invitations
Wrangle up some fun at a horse theme party

Saddle up and gallop over for a party.

OR use one of the printable party invitations found here.

Cakes
Horseshoe

Green meadow with a horse on it – color some coconut green for grass, sprinkle across the top of the cake, maybe add a few small frosting flowers, and add a clean, plastic toy horse.

Decorations
Horseshoes

Costumes/Dress up
Bandanas and cowboy hats

Vest made from brown paper bag

Belt with big belt buckle

Games and Activities
Swat the Fly (ages 3-10)
Instead of pin the tail on the horse, try to swat the fly. Give each guest a horse tail and have them try to swat the fly off the horse, blindfolded. You can use a short piece of rope or even a bandana instead of a horse tail.

Pony Food (ages 3-16)
Horses love apples, carrots and radishes. Serve cut apples or fruit salad or cut vegetables to your guests and have them eat it pony style – without hands. You can make this a face if you want, or just a fun, relaxing game. Provide lots of napkins for this pony party game.

Pony Express Races (ages 3-12)
Give each guest their own pony to race. You can make stick horses with socks for the head or just tape a print out of a horse’s head to a dowel rod. Race along a specific trail with crepe paper streamers stretched across the finish line.

Pony Relay Races (ages 3-16)
Run short races pony style: prance, gallop, run, and trot. Who’s the pony at your pony party?

Sugar Cube Relay (ages 4-16)
Ponies love sugar…and so do kids. Split the guests into two teams and have them take turns racing a sugar cube on a spoon. If the sugar cube falls off, they pick it up and go back to start.

Rope a Calf (ages 5-16)
If you can, stick a plastic cow head in the end of a bale of hay and let your guests take turns trying to rope it. Or you could use a rocking horse. Bring in a horseman or a cowboy to show how to properly throw a rope and let the guests have fun trying. 

Apple Snack (ages 5-16)
Ponies love to eat apples. String up apple slices and hang them up high and let the guests try to eat them as though they’re in a tree. Trying to eat a whole apple is too much. Really, go for the slices. Dip the slices in a bowl with water and lemon juice to prevent browning.

Lead the Pony (ages 5-16)
Create a maze or simple obstacle course then have the guests take turns leading each other through the maze. Give one guest a blindfold (like many horses who wear blinders) to wear as he or she is lead through the maze.

Corral the Horses (ages 6-16)
Here’s a great pony party game: Gather the ponies and horses, but use inflated balloons instead of horses. Instruct the guests to get all the balloons behind a gate or a corral made of chairs. The trick is they can only wave their cowboy hats and use their bandanas. They cannot touch the balloons with their hands. Balloons at a pony party, it doesn’t get any better than this!

Horseshoes (ages 7-16)
Play the game outdoors. Right. If you have the stuff, you already know how to play.

Crafts
Pony Names (ages 3-10)
Give each guest a plaque to decorate with their pony name. If they were a pony, what would they be called? You can use wooden plaques from a craft store or print out the plaques on cardstock. Decorate with paints, markers, crayons, flowers, candies, glitter, etc.

Sugar Cube Creation (ages 3-10)
Sugar cubes are a favorite horse treat. Give each guest a paper plate to build on. Provide sugar cubes and frosting so the guests can build their own creations. Put the frosting in bowls for younger guests or baggies with the tips cut off for older guests.

Decorate Horseshoes (ages 3-16)
Cut out from cardstock or pick up wooden cut out from craft store. Decorate with markers, paint, silk flowers, ribbons, buttons, and other doodads. This pony craft is sure to fill your pony party with lots of good luck!

Horse Race (ages 5-9)
Attach a cut out of a horse to an 11-inch long ribbon with tape or hot glue. Print out the paper in the download and cut slits on the black lines (reinforce the slits with tape before cutting them). Thread the ribbon through the slits and tape or hot glue the ends of the ribbon together on the backside of the paper. Now you can make it look like the horse is running through the meadow by moving the ribbon on the back of the paper.

Hobby Horse (ages 5-12)
Make a hobby horse with buttons, a sock and a stick. The sock, stuffed with batting, will be the head of the horse. Sew or hot glue two large button eyes to the bottom side of the sock, near the heal. Stuff the sock with batting then put the sock on a stick or PVC pipe. Use a ribbon to tie the sock to the stick, maybe use a little hot glue as well. That’s really all you need. But, you could also make a couple of triangle ears from felt and sew or glue them on as well.