Pirate Party - Ideas needed for games and food

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thanks

feeling not uo to it so an help to make it easier greatly appreciated

Google pirate party, there are loads of ideas. Mainly from Americans who spend too much time preparing their children's parties, if you ask me.

We did walking the plank, pin the tail on the pirate, treasure hunt and what's the time captain hook? The treasure hunt was really just telling them there were loads of gold coins in the garden, go find them. I couldn't get flap the fish to work in trial runs so didn't bother.

The only pirate food was the cake. Out of inspiration on the pirate them by the time I got to the party bags but no one complained!

My tip would be to tell them to leave their swords at home. On the invites I wrote "leave yer weapons on yer ship".

We had a Pirates of the Caribbean bouncy castle, made treasure maps (I made the parchment the night before, then did a 'prototype', they all just did them when they wanted a bit of 'quiet time'.). We also played 'Sleeping Pirate' - one person sits in the middle, blindfold, put a big bunch of keys beside them, then someone sneaks up, takes the keys, pirate then has to identify who it was by the sound. You could also do a pirate story - they all have a character, sit in a circle, every time their character is mentioned they have to stand up, run round the circle, sit down. Also 'musical pirates' - like musical statues, but they have to dance like pirates.

Food - we did hot dogs, which if you were feeling very creative you could fairly easily turn into little boats (cocktail stick and a paper 'sail'. Pirate ship cake.

Didn't do party bags - did a 'treasure chest' lucky dip which worked much better.

I made a big pirate face and cut a hole out for the mouth; they took turns to throw cannon balls (ie ping pong balls wrapped in black paper) through the mouth and got points for each one. We played pin the eyepatch on the pirate on the same picture.

We also hid Thornton's chocolate coins around the house (downstairs only) for a treasure hunt. We played a game where you have quite a few newspaper sheet "islands" around the room and they play like musical chairs, losing an island each time. When you're down to the final island, you make it smaller and smaller each turn until only one winner can fit on it.

The only pirate food we did was dead man's fingers: ie: little sausages wrapped in bread and butter; everything else was normal party food but with Jolly Roger flags stuck in it.

For the cake I made a big square sponge then covered it in blue ready roll icing (died with blue food colouring to look a bit patchy). I then stuck a clump of green icing on to be an island and then stuck playmobil trees and pirates on it and a big shark jumping out of the sea. If I can find the photograph later, I'll scan it and put it in my profile.

"Dyed" not "Died".

The cake we did is on my profile if you want a look

Can't find my pic sorry; dp must have "tidied it up" - ie: shoved it in the loft.

Ah yes, pirates.
Ooh arr me hearties etc etc.

DS2 had one last year. Flap a fish was a big success actually, tho I did have 3 older children to help on the teams.

Also did pirate island on big sheet of paper, squared it off and "hid" treasure on one square; they all had to pick a square (I told rambling and apparently engrossing tale of pirate coming to my door with it) and winner was revealed at ehd.

Treasure hunt round room for gold coins (cardboard)

Pin eye patch on Johnny Depp (numbers need to be small)

Musical islands

Pirate craft - make pirate masks

Food wise - cake can be treausre chest(v easy and fab) or pirateship (with Playmobil people on). Also did fruit cutlasses (on wooden skewers) which were such a big hit have done them at every party since

Party bags; loads of stuff online. IIRC they got pirate notebook and pencil and stickers, gold coins and a pirate balloon.

wow great ideas

great cake tortoise - and lovely kids

its so hatd to throw good partes

roll on when they dont want one

Treasure hunt a must - we put loads of chocolate gold coins in a velvet jewellery case.
Also had a treasure chest pinata we bought from the internet. It had sweets, plastic 'pirate' rings and gold/silver confetti and was bashed by a plastic sword (but not too successfully, had to rip the pinata in the end).
Also had a balloon modeller (£28) who made loads of balloon swords. But tbh they didn't look awfully different from just a long balloon that you or I could easily inflate FOR FREE.
The birthday cake was a pirate ship.
Everyone was given an eyepatch and a cardboard pirate hat too.

Oh, the treasure hunt included a map which we'd cut from some park souvenir and stuck on a tea-stained piece of paper which was also slightly burnt around the edges. Drew an X and a parrot. Then hid an inflatable parrot in a tree with case underneath.

Hi I do personalised chocolate bars and have a brilliant pirate themed one. 31 a bar. E-mail [email protected] and i can send you a picture