Ahoy Land Lubbers - it's a Pirate Party
Theme
You can send invitations that you make that look like treasure chests or pirate hats, or a treasure map. Ask them to come
dressed in a plain white tshirt and jean. When they arrive you can turn them into pirates with cheap plastic eye patches, beards, bandanas, etc.
If you don't have the funds to purchase beards and mustaches (or can't find them) take an eyeliner pencil and draw it in! Purchase cheap plastic
swords at the store (if the kids are old enough not to try and kill each other with them ) and hand them out to the kids as they arrive as part of
their costume.
Menu Ideas
All Pirates need their "ale" - serve root beer in frosty mugs. You can find some plastic ones at some party supply stores.
Finger foods such as cheese cubes, small cocktail weinies, etc. with small swords in them are great.
Decorations
Have treasure laying all over the house. Gold wrapped chocolate candy is a treasure to kids and it looks like it too. You can get a cheap
styrofoam cooler and paint it black with gold trim to use as the treasure chest. If you can find some netting that would be good to hang on the walls too,
for the look of a ship. You can use poster board and cut out "portholes" from them. Paint the trim of the hole brown or whatever color you like. Then color the middle
of the circle blue to give the appearance of looking out into the water. You can even put fish and shark stickers on it to make it look like there are fish out there. Then
you hang it on the wall in various spots.
Games
Sink the ship - Have 2 large boxes (preferably decorated like pirate ships) spaced apart. Divide the kids into 2 teams. Everyone gets ping pong balls or some other small
type of ball. The team that gets the most balls thrown into the other teams ship is the winner.
Walk the Plank - have the kids walk the plank to where prizes are to receive them.
Treasure Hunt - all pirates have a treasure. Send the kids on a treasure hunt. The things that they find are part of their treasure to take home.
Pin the X on the map. Actually they will draw the X. Create a map with an X on it. Blindfold the kids and give them a crayon. Have them see who can place their
X as close to the one that is already there. You will want to make yours a different color or some other way of differentiating it so there is no confusion.
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