My daughter loves farm animals, so for her second birthday we had a barnyard bash.   The invitations, which said: "Baa!  Moo!  Cocka-doodle-doo!  Come to a party,  Phoebe's turning TWO!'  and included a darling photo of my daughter in a red cowboy hat, were printed out on real bandanas.  It was pretty easy to do, as I created the  invitation on the computer and printed it out on iron-on paper, and then ironed them on to white bandanas with blank centers (purchased at bandanaman.com). I  enclosed them in bright green envelopes decorated with farm animal stickers and put them in the mail.  The party was held on a real farm that's located near our house.   Our picnic site was close to the chicken coop, sheep and pig pens, which was lots of  fun for the kids. It was a hot day and I wanted some water activities, so I attached farm animals to sponges and floated them in a big tub filled with water.  I also filled white  surgical gloves with water, wrote "Moo!" on them and poked holes in the tips. I put  them in galvanized tins for "cow milking."  We had a simple bbq lunch and for dessert,  I made a double-layer 9"x13" cake, frosted it white, and then made a farm on it using small plastic farm animals and fences that I bought at Target for 99 cents a package. I  made "dirt" for the pig pen by crushing chocolate cookies and "grass" for the cow  pasture with green-colored coconut. I put slivered almonds in the chicken coop.  It  came out really cute and was actually really easy.  At our picnic site there was a circle  of hay stacks, so we all went there to sing Old MacDonald, play Ring-Around-the- Rosie and sing Happy Birthday. For goodie bags each child got a colored cowboy  hat filled with a farm animal puppet and farm stickers, all labeled with a card wtih their  name and a plastic farm animal on it (all of this was bought at Oriental Trading Co).   The kids seemed to have a great time, and for the adults it was a nice, relaxing day outside!