Barnyard Birthday Party

Well, it's been an interesting 2 weeks.  My son just turned 2 and we were supposed to have his party on his actual birthday.  Unfortunately, he got sick the day before and we had to cancel last minute and reschedule for a week later.  Of course he didn't start showing symptoms until I had already spent two hours baking and decorating his cake and spending the day getting ready for the party.  But when you have kids, you are forced to be flexible.  We cut that cake on his actual birthday and I made a new one for the party the next week, minus the barn that took forever to layer and frost (I'm a pretty good baker, but I don't have a lot of experience decorating birthday cakes.  I'm still trying to hone this skill). 
But of course, the day we rescheduled it to was a cloudy day with 50% chance of rain, so we had to move the majority of the activities indoors.  We have a great property for outdoor entertaining, with a big deck and a patio and driveway where we put our moonbounce. Not so much a great house for indoor parties though.  But we made the most of it.
I perused Pinterest for a lot of the ideas I came up with for the Barnyard theme we did.  The games had to be simple since the kids were mostly young.  I drew and painted a pig on posterboard for "Pin the Tail on the Piggy".  I used pipe cleaners with a piece of tape attached for the tail.
The other game was a catch a duck game.  I filled up my son's water table and floated rubber ducks in it.  The kids used a small net to "catch" the rubber ducks and the one they pulled out of the "duck pond" they got to bring home with them.  As you can see from the pictures below, the ducks didn't quite float right-side up...but the kids didn't seem to notice or care.
I made all the goodie bags out of paper lunch bags and glued on eyes, noses, ears, etc to make pig and rooster faces.  I filled them with "farmy" things like cow tail candy and farm animal figures. I made rice crispies treats, wrapped them in plastic wrap, then tied twine around the ends to make it look like a hay bale.
I think it was a successful party, even with having to reschedule and bring it indoors.  My next challenge will be my nine year old's Shopkins party later this month!

The silo is made from a rice crispies treat that I rounded and frosted.  The building part of the barn is just cake that I layered. I'm sure it would have been a piece of cake (hahaha) for a real baker, but it took me forever to get it to stand straight without crumbling.

I made these vases by just hot gluing burlap around a mason jar and tying ribbon around it. 

It's hard to see but there is a small chalkboard "Watering Hole" sign above the drink counter.  I also had one that said "Garden" for the fruit tray.

The end results of the Piggy game...

Goodie bags.