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Make Your Own Cowgirl Games

When making up children's games, imagination is the best tool. If a parent is willing to gather props, costumes and set up a traditional game or two on the side, children's imaginations can take them for hours into the far corners of the world -- or in the case, the exciting land of the Wild West. If the children are having trouble getting starting on their adventure, you need only urge them along with a plot idea and a few facts about cowgirls, and the rest is magic.

Things You'll Need

Cowgirl props
Cowgirl costumes

Instructions

- 1
  
  Cowgirls and cowboys can share most costume gear.
  
  Gather as many props and outfits as possible, everything from toy horses to lasso ropes, from fringed jackets to colorful bandannas. The thrift store is one resource for inexpensive costumes and toys. Be creative: use dried grass from the backyard as hay for horses, and use plastic dishware from the kitchen for cowgirl campfire cookware.
- 2
  Think up a plotline, such as an emergency horse rescue mission that is underway, or a federation of cowgirls that need to fight a local bully.
- 3
  Look up cowgirl facts. Find Internet resources about life in the days of the old West and a biography of historical cowgirls.
- 4
  Using the props and the plotline, let the adventures begin. While the girls are playing, a parent can set up other games in a cowgirl context to be played along the adventure. For example, pin the tail on the bronco or musical rodeo chairs.

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