pirate birthday party ideas

Pirate parties

 Shiver me timbers! Is it a Pirate Birthday Party that ye be planning? Then ye be at the right place. Arrr!

Here you'll find the best party ideas for pirate invitations, pirate party games , pirate food and much more.

Today you will celebrate your birthday "pirate style". You and your buccaneer friends will hunt for buried treasure, have cannon ball fights and even walk the plank at this super fun kids pirate party.

Invitations

First order of business is to send a creative invitation to build excitement and anticipation for your upcoming pirate birthday party. An original pirate poem delivered on burnt parchment is a fun and creative pirate party invitation.

Decorations

Get your pirate pals shaking in their boots on their way to the door of your pirate birthday party by starting your decorations right out your front door. Make signs with pirate sayings on them. Attach to stakes or string and hang at intervals along your driveway and walkway. Make a Pirate Flag for your very own pirate ship and hang it on the front door.

Additional outside pirate theme decoration ideas are to use skeletons and plastic gold filled trunks. Place a chest of gold plastic coins and jewelry beside a plastic skeleton dressed like a pirate (eye patch, bandana and sword).Give him a fake parrot on his shoulder. He'll make a fearsome welcome to your pirate birthday party placed on your porch or next to your door.

Inside decorations keep the party theme fun. You don't need much. Just a splash here and there to keep the pirate theme going. Some pirate signs, plastic skeletons and treasure chests should do the trick.

Activities & Games

Now to entertain your pirate pals you'll need some adventurous party games and activities or there will be a mutiny for sure.

Choose a few from the list of proven kid favorites below:

Birthday Cake

A pirate birthday cake can be really fun to make. Decorate a regular cake with plastic pirate characters of every kind. Or make a sheet cake and use black and white frosting to make a pirate flag.

Party Food

Your scurvy crew mates will be looking for some real pirate grub to feed their bellies. Food at a pirate party should have pirate sounding names.

Variations to Party Theme

Pirate Sleep-over
At this pirate birthday party you and your crew mates have been in a ship wreck and are marooned on a deserted island. Do all the pirate party games and activities above and add some survival skills and night time fun.

First things first when you're marooned on a deserted island - you have to have shelter. It is fun to build a lean-to to play in but you will probably sleep in a tent or in your house. Here's how you and your crew mates can build a lean-to.

The next thing a pirate would do is hide his treasure and make a map to find it later. Time for you pirates to do the same with this this fun pirate birthday party game.

Drink rum (root beer) or Pirate's Blood around a fire as you tell ghost stories.

What To Do with Siblings

Siblings are great most of the time. You have someone to play with, a lifelong friend and someone to blame for the wet towel on the bathroom floor. But they can be hit or miss at a pirate party. Since you can't throw them to the sharks my advice is to get them involved.

Now Captain get to planning the pirate party of your dreams. Don't hesitate to drop a note to us land lubbers with any questions or with any additional ideas. We are always searching the planet for creative party ideas. And please check back in and let us know how fearsomely spectacular your Pirate Party was!