Our church had a Chili Cook Off Friday night. It was a western cowboy theme. I helped out with the decorations and got some great ideas from this cowboy themed blue and gold cub scout banquet HERE.
We don't live out west, so we didn't have many western props. We made due with what we had and I spend $0 on decorations, just using stuff I already had.
I started with the cowboy bunting. Instead of using bandannas or scraps of fabric, I used scrapbook paper in an Americana theme.
Each 12 x 12 sheet yielded 8 triangles that I sewed together with my sewing machine.
I hung them up around the gym with some cowboy quotes that I found online.
In case you are ever in need of some clean cut cowboy quotes, here are the ones I used:
