Pirate Party
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AARRR! Shiver me timbers! ‘Tiss a good day for a pirate party. Ahoy ye land lubbers! Invite all of your mates to come aboard and join you as you search for treasure on your pirate ship! Turn your house or backyard into a full out pirate scene. There are so many fantastic pirate themed movies and shows to use as inspiration. Have your guests dress in their best pirate costume, search for treasure and battle to win your party games. Check out these pirate party ideas to win over your guests before they must walk the plank. |
AARRR! Shiver me timbers! ‘Tiss a good day for a pirate party. Ahoy ye land lubbers! Invite all of your mates to come aboard and join you as you search for treasure on your pirate ship! Turn your house or backyard into a full out pirate scene. There are so many fantastic pirate themed movies and shows to use as inspiration. Have your guests dress in their best pirate costume, search for treasure and battle to win your party games. Check out these pirate party ideas to win over your guests before they must walk the plank.
Pirate Party Invitations
For any of the homemade pirate party invitation options, deliver them in plastic or glass bottles and pretend that it is a long lost secret message. To add an additional pirate touch for your invitations be sure to include a few chocolate gold coins.
- Treasure map soaked in tea bags to make it looked aged
- Weathered paper with burnt edges
- Make a scroll with paper or material attached to two dowels
- Make your invitation into a treasure map by putting a big X on the party location
On your invitation says something cute like “be there or ye walk the plank” or “ahoy matey, you will be sure to have ye a great time”.
Pirate Party Decorations & Supplies
- Use the color theme of red, gold, and black
- Pirate ship photo booth - create your own pirate ship out of wood or cardboard boxes
- Make an X marks the spot on your front or backyard
- Skull and crossbones pirate flag
- Balloon towers with red, black, gold, and skull balloons
- Make your own treasure chest by taking a foam cooler and spray paint it brown or black. Use plastic chains and lock and fill it full of:
- Plastic jewels
- Gold rings
- Gold & silver chocolate coins
- Bead strings
- Gold sprayed goblets
- Use pirate themed bandanas or pirate hats for party hats
- Use sand and seashells and create a beach area with hidden treasure
- Fake crocodiles and sharks
- Fake cannon and cannonballs
- Treasure map tablecloth and napkins
- Fishing nets with caught sea creatures like starfish, rubber fish, seahorses, plastic oyster shells, lobsters and crabs
- Use a large wood pole and sheet to create a pirate ship mast
- Fake palm trees
- Torches
- Make a fake artillery box
- Coils of rope tied to your pirate ship or pieces of wood
- Play pirate and action music in the background, or use a soundtrack from your favorite pirate movie (like Pirates of the Caribbean)
- Have a giant treasure map (made out of brown paper) that the guests can add to
Pirate Party Costume Ideas
- Pirate skull and crossbones hat
- Fake sword and shield
- Temporary Tattoos
- Curled hair with small braids and colored hair wraps with shells
- Patch over one eye
- Parrot on shoulder
- Wooden peg leg
- Pirate, skull, or ship bandana
- Red sash
- Collapsible para-scope
- Clip-on hoop earring
- Pirate shirt - white puffy poet shirt
- Black Pirate boots
- Plastic skull ring
- Fake Daggers
- Compass
- Cut off or ripped jeans
- Wide belt with a large buckle
Pirate Party Games and Activities
- Treasure scavenger hunt - set up a scavenger hunt with a clue at each destination, adding to your treasure map where you get coins at each stop and at the end you find a key to unlock the ultimate treasure chest.
- Pirate coin challenge - have two teams with an equal amount of treasure and the treasure is kept in two different chests. Then, each team has an area and they try to protect their treasure while stealing the other team's treasure. The winner is the team that accumulates the most treasure by the end (for more instructions check out balloon challenge).
- Keep the ship afloat - players are divided into teams and they must fill their buckets full of water using only a sponge. Have a race to see which team saves their ship from sinking (sponge bob race).
- Cannon ball toss - have black water balloons and have a water balloon fight
- Hook toss - have a wooden board and fasten pirate hooks faced up onto it, then throw hoops into the pirate hooks
- Walk the plank - use a 2 by 4 piece of treated and sanded wood (or bigger for younger kids), so there are no rough edges or splinters
- Dig for gold - have a child size sand pit and have toys hidden that the guests can dig up
- Decorate a pirate hat - have cutout hats with markers, paint, stickers, etc.
- Watch your favorite pirate movie or show
Our Favourite Pirate Music Video
By Splash n' Boots
Pirate Birthday Party Food and Drink
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 Pirate Cake (Shared by Joan) |
- Create Pirate ship sails on skewers stuck in your finger food
- BBQ hot dogs and hamburgers
- Pizza
- Fish and chips
- Potato wedges or potato salad
- Shrimp cocktail
- Seafood salad
- Potato salad
- Catch of the day - goldfish crackers
- Tropical punch
- Fruit tray with kiwi, pineapple, mango, grapes, cantaloupe, orange, and strawberries
- Pirate ship or treasure chest cake
- Chocolate gold coins
- Pirate cupcakes
- Use brown sugar on your serving platter to look like sand and make a beach scene
- Jell-o with treasures in the middle
- Cannon balls - chocolate balls
Pirate Cake (Shared by Joan)
Pirate Party Favors
For your pirate party favors have a sign that says “grab some loot”.
- Pirate coloring books
- Gold rings
- Gold & silver chocolate coins
- Compass
- Ring pops
- Necklaces/bracelets
- Glow in the dark jewelry