Texas Party Ideas

Texas themed birthday party ideas for kids.  Everything is bigger in Texas including these great ideas for a Texas birthday party!  Fun ideas for Texas themed invitations, decorations, activities, games, food, favors and more. 

For more western style party ideas see our Cowboy and Western party idea pages. 

Texas Flag - The Lone Star State

Invitations
Buy post cards with the Texas flag on one side - fill them out with the party information and send to guests. 

Write party information and details inside of note cards with the Texas flag on the outside. 

Cut plain red or blue note cards into a Texas state shape. 

Decorations
Decorate with the colors of the Texas flag - red, white and blue.  Tie red, white and blue helium balloons to the mailbox to show guests where the party is located.  Tie red and/or blue bandanas from the trees & bushes outside the party entrance.  Set up some hay bales near the party entrance and scatter some hay along the pathway leading to the door.

Decorate the party table with red or blue checkered table cloths, hay bales, cowboy boots with flowers in them (yellow roses or bluebonnets!),  rope, horseshoes and cowboy hats.   Sprinkle star confetti on the party tables.  Place red, white and blue helium balloons around the party area - draw a Lone Star on the blue balloons.  

Call guests to dinner or to start a game by ringing a dinner triangle. 

Activities

Texas Bluebonnets
Let the party guests plant their own bluebonnet seeds into a small terra cotta pot.  They can then decorate the pot and take it home with them as party favors.

Bluebonnet Fingerprint Pictures
Let the kids have some arts and crafts time and make a fun bluebonnet picture with their fingerprints.  Set out blue and white paints in shallow containers.  Have them place their thumb in the blue paint and make a bluebonnet flower ... then they take another finger and dip it in the white paint and press their finger just at the top of all the blue flowers they just made.  

Texas Party Games

See our Cowboy and Western party theme pages for lots of party games that would fit right in with the Texas birthday party theme.

Food Ideas
Texas style BBQ
Baked beans
Potato salad, coleslaw, corn on the cob
Peach cobbler
Anything Tex Mex - tacos, enchiladas, chips and salsa, queso
Texas Star shaped food (cut with a star shaped cookie cutter) - cookies, sandwiches, fruit

Favor Ideas
Texas Flag
Bluebonnet seeds
Stuffed armadillo
Star badge

Goody / Loot Bag Ideas
Cowboy hat
Plastic cowboy boot
Tie up party favors in a red bandana - tie with rope or raffia
White bags with a picture of the Texas flag glued to the front and blue and red tissue paper