A Little House on the Prairie Birthday Party

INVITATIONS:
Draw or Photocopy the cover of the Laura Ingles Wilder book "Little House on the Prairie", then change it to read "Little House on YOUR STREET NAME"
eg. Little House on Oak Street

Make (colour) copies.
On the back include the party details (birthday girl's name, date, time, place, etc.)
Encourage guests to dress up like prairie girls!

DECORATIONS:
Old-fashioned streamers. Simple!

ARRIVAL ACTIVITIES:
Give each guest a triangular kerchief that you've cut out from a brightly coloured piece of cotton fabric.
This is the Party Hat!

While waiting for all the guests to arrive, the kids can colour and cut out old-fashioned paper dolls.
I found some on the internet that be printed out.

FOOD: Serve old-fashioned prairie food like:

apple slices
cheese cubes
pickles
brown beans
ham
cornmeal muffins/biscuits
buns
popcorn balls
serve lemon-aid in tin cups that will later be used as treat bags they can take home

This isn't necessarily food kids love, but it's a theme party so the kids will have fun eating old-fashioned foods.

THE CAKE:

I made a cake in the shape of the house Laura lived in on the TV show and iced it in yellow and brown. I just cut up a rectangular cake and pieced it together. I was a little rushed, so I'm sure you could do a better job on the icing!