DD would like a pirate party would your dd happily dress up as a pirate?

[chocolatespiders]

this will be for dd 5th birthday party

not sure if i should have pirates and .......

[stealthsquiggle]

Pirate theme is fine, IMHO - even the girliest girls can be pirate princesses.

[ProfessorGrammaticus]

Yes. Don't give a pink option. Thre's no reason why you couldn't have a pink pirate costume, if you were really determined

I get really fed up at this insistence that girls must be pink and girly at all times, it wasn't like this for us.

[tortoiseSHELL]

Dd went to a Peter Pan party recently - as a pirate!

[tortoiseSHELL]

Our cake - we got lots of madeira cakes, sandwiched them together with jam and matchmakers to brace, then shaped into ship shape - so pointy bow, squarer stern, raised deck at stern. Used chocolate butter cream icing to cover. Barbecue skewers for masts, rolled out marzipan for sails, writing icing pens for detail, curly wurlys for rails/rigging.

One idea which a friend used and I WISH we had thought of was to use one of those long biscuit tube things - the sort that is a sheet of biscuit rolled into a tube - get them in posh belgian chocolate selections - for the prow at the front. She then made an icing figure head, but we didn't bother with that.

Games - we had the treasure maps to make (get pieces of paper, rip the edges off, scrumple, soak in strong cold tea for an hour, leave to dry (this takes a while - we left them overnight, then finished them in the oven) - I just put the blank parchments on a table, with a prototype stuck to the table and lots of crayons, and it was a good 'quiet' area.

Bouncy Castle - was Pirates of the Caribbean.

Games - Sleeping Pirate - children sit in a circle, one child in the middle, put a big bunch of keys beside them, they are blindfolded, you tap a child on the head, they sneak up and take the keys, then pirate has to identify who has the keys - they get 3 guesses. This worked REALLY well.

[somersetmum]

dd went to a pirate party for twin girls' 5th bday. They all dressed up and had a great time. They had black balloons with skull and crossbone on, large gold chocolate coins as bootie, pirate games, cutlasses. It was fab.

[S1ur]

Tortoise that is a wicked cake!

and gorgeous children, well done

I am slightly jealous of your superior plaiting abilities thogh

[moodlumthehoodlum]

Me too me too!

DS is having a third birthday party on Monday and after much much deliberation is also having a pirate party. (although none of the guests know )

I've been really really disorganised and not done a thing apart from ordering some piratey stuff online. We have a real age range coming, so I'm not sure where to start with games apart from the pass the parcel.

Am starting to panic.

[Hulababy]

DD would dress up as a pirate.

[eandh]

dd1 would love any party that involves dressing up, she is having a princess and superhero party in september for her 4th birthday (was going to do princess and pirates but noticed lots of boys at preschool very into spiderman!!)

[Lemontart]

DD1 had a princess pirate party for her nursery. Gave the girls the option to be princesses or pirates. The boys would have been welcome as either too of course but funnily enough all turned up with hooks, parrots and stripy tops
Loads of websites are full of pirate stuff too with scenesetters, inflatables, decorated napkins, foodboxes etc depending on how far you want to take the theme.
Treasure Hunt is compulsary though

[gillybean2]

Pirate tattoos available from yellowmoon.org.uk and very reasonably priced, might go down well. Either as an activity, prizes or something to send home in party bags

[janeite]

For dd's party the cake I did was just a big square, with jam in the middle. I then covered it in pale blue streaky-ish ready roll icing, to be the sea. I made a sort of "lump" of green icing, which became the land, in one corner of the cake and stuck Playmobil trees and pirates and skeletons and treasure on it. I dug out a bit of the sea and stuck a shark figure in it so that the shark was rearing up out of the waves. I put the cake on a board and surrounded it with chocolate coins and various "jewels". It was very easy but looked pretty good, if I may say so!

This thread is making me sad and jealous though, as my two now tell me they are too "old" for parties at home and want to go to the cinema etc instead - booooooooring!

[chocolatespiders]

thanks all

fantastic cake.... i have plans to make a treasure chest cake.. with sweet necklaces and gold coins(if i can find them at this time of year?)

thanks for all great advice

Pirates it is- got some great pirate flag bunting in asda..

[S1ur]

try oxfam for choco coins. they stock all year round

[tassisssss]

loads of good stuff on partypieces.co.uk including a fabulous Pin the Eye Patch on the Pirate game

i bought red and white dotty fabric and lots of v cheap eye patches and dressed up the "pirates" as they arrived. suggested they might like to wear a stripy top. They all looked so cute and over a year later several of them still dress up with their headscarves and eye patches.

[moodlumthehoodlum]

This is a GREAT thread.

[HuwEdwards]

YES, she'd LOVE it!

[CurrantBM]

Both my DD's love dressing as pirates, including face paint beards and eye patches.

[handlemecarefully]

I would encounter initial resistance from my nearly 6 year old but expect that I could talk her around (madamez - its not tragic gender obsessed parents, its tragic gender obsessed society, which tends to rub off on children to some degree)

[chocolatespiders]

fantastic fabulous cake

I really couldnt do anything like that....

gold smarties>>>>> off to google now

[SSSandy2]

mine would but would hate dressing up as a princess